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Woodside drops $7 billion low-carbon investment target

31 August 2026 8:03 pm

Is the balance of power shifting away from Net Zero projects and investments?

One Nation is winning the battle for the somewheres

31 August 2026 2:31 pm

But the party needs to be wary about its flirtation with the anywheres...

Open Letter to Dr Anna Cody

31 August 2026 1:49 pm

The Australian Human Rights Sex Discrimination Commissioner

Woke hasn’t killed Australia’s adventurer spirit

31 August 2026 1:08 pm

Brown brings back Boy’s Own Birtles and the Bean

Tanya Plibersek’s history lesson for young Australians

29 August 2026 11:14 pm

Is this really the best time to be a first home-buyer, or are young people being left behind?

Checking in on the health of our government

29 August 2026 10:57 pm

Because the people of Australia are feeling quite unwell

The standard you walk past

29 August 2026 4:37 pm

The new Carroll government has reinvented itself as the not-Jacinta-or-Dan Collective

The Curley problem of cynical vote harvesting

29 August 2026 1:40 pm

And how his modus operandi has been used effectively by political leaders since

Victorians have every right to be angry

28 August 2026 3:06 am

Changing the Premier does not change the rotten culture

Immigration confusion

28 August 2026 2:46 am

A recent policy change by One Nation has revealed a lot of confusion about immigration policy, and which numbers really matter

Shahriyaragan: The ancient Iranian tradition of ideal kingship

28 August 2026 2:25 am

This essay concerns a desire that Iranians have preserved deep within their collective soul for centuries, a longing for the…

Stories from the edge of the world

28 August 2026 2:10 am

Chauncy offers the other pole: a Tasmania where human beings can flourish

Our universities are captured and don’t even know it!

27 August 2026 3:34 pm

How education lost all sense of reality inside the identity politics echo chamber

If super is really our money, prove it

27 August 2026 2:52 pm

Senator Pauline Hanson is right that super is deferred pay, and wrong about what follows from it

Data centre derangement syndrome

26 August 2026 8:12 pm

Wealth inequality, not the environment, is driving the backlash

The trouble with Utopia … is us

26 August 2026 4:01 pm

Conservatives don’t expect politicians to fix human nature. The Left does...

lindsay clancy

Two dead families’ worth of grief, and one theory

26 August 2026 1:50 pm

...the mind broke, therefore the person cannot answer for what the broken mind has done

Before the shouting starts

25 August 2026 9:31 pm

Why Western Australia’s Parliament should keep the prayer

Albanese thinks his government is anger-proof

25 August 2026 11:40 am

...because he is safe, so long as there is nowhere for the protest vote to go

People and politics now polls apart

25 August 2026 10:50 am

Labor is paying the price, but the Coalition isn’t collecting the benefit

The Lord’s Prayer is inclusive. Acknowledgement of Country is not…

25 August 2026 10:03 am

The secular prayer taking over Australia is more divisive than its Christian predecessor

Angus Taylor: ‘The Labor government is f**kin’ sh*t…’

24 August 2026 8:02 pm

Am I the only one who thinks the optics of the Pollie Pedal event, despite being for a good cause,…

Prime Minister, why should data centres underwrite wind if it is so cheap?

24 August 2026 3:54 am

Wind is intermittent, but its government support is not...

Wobbly Dr Who scenery

24 August 2026 3:39 am

The Australian national identity does not exist

The undefended flank

23 August 2026 8:57 pm

For every dollar spent protecting nature, roughly 40 dollars are spent undermining it