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Classy, biased bigotry, brought to you by your ABC

3 September 2026 11:39 pm

Barnaby Joyce still speaks to the ABC, but they don’t deserve the privilege

The European Commission’s ‘lazy money’

3 September 2026 3:50 pm

A dangerous suggestion for Australian politicians

Canberra renamed to Buenos Aires

2 September 2026 11:22 pm

How do we decline? Gradually ... and then suddenly

No shame in the democracy game

1 September 2026 11:44 pm

Political participation is celebrated ... until the participants reach the wrong conclusions

Prayer, privilege, and power

1 September 2026 11:31 pm

Does Parliament still need God?

The Victorianisation of Australia

1 September 2026 8:49 pm

A pay cut for workers and a pay rise for bureaucrats?

The real secret of Secret Harbour

1 September 2026 5:15 pm

Albanese is right to be running scared of One Nation

Education departments have a plan for the bully. What about the victim?

1 September 2026 1:17 pm

A victim of school bullying has not volunteered to become part of somebody else’s rehabilitation program...

The death of the heroic political backstory

31 August 2026 11:34 pm

Why the age of the carefully curated origin myth is becoming harder to sustain

When did normal become ‘far-right’?

31 August 2026 11:00 pm

The valid concerns of Australians have been wrongly branded as radicalisation by politicians and the press

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