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Scott Morrison almost got it right

4 February 2026 10:07 am

If you want to know why the Australian Liberal Party is where it is read Scott Morrison’s piece on fundamentalist…

Chalmers’ rate-and-switch

3 February 2026 4:13 pm

It really should be called the 95 per cent Debt Servitude Scheme

RBA interest rate hike: our plight under Opposition light

3 February 2026 3:46 pm

From the Press Gallery: Below my seat in the press gallery, the Liberal Party sits in Parliament as a shadow…

Debt, debt, debt, debt, debt

2 February 2026 11:54 am

There are a lot of people who comfort themselves by thinking that the Commonwealth government’s $1 trillion of debt is…

The death of debate: how media pluralism collapsed

2 February 2026 11:43 am

From newspapers to platforms and the breakdown of civic discourse

Mob justice

2 February 2026 11:12 am

The danger of social media pile-ons

Liberals’ last hurrah?

2 February 2026 9:54 am

Outside of mortgage repayments, motor vehicle rego charges, and council rates, politics is like an annoying blowfly that interrupts the…

The Minneapolis paradox: when Liberal democracy turns against itself

31 January 2026 4:28 pm

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, two deaths have crystallised a distinctly American paradox. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse,…

Australia’s renewable energy or monorail policy?

31 January 2026 3:39 pm

I hate to infringe on the sacred writing territory of Labor Dry, but desperate times call for shameless imitation. There…

Why the merry-go-round can’t save the circus

31 January 2026 3:24 pm

There’s a special kind of panic that sets in when people confuse motion with progress. Things start spinning. Jobs change…

Banning of political parties and reasonable debate

31 January 2026 2:17 pm

Two possible consequences of the new hate speech legislation

Without the ribbon. Without the bracelet. Not without the fight…

30 January 2026 1:56 pm

The hostages are home. The symbols have come off. The responsibility has not. On Monday, January 26, 2026, I removed…

To be Australian

30 January 2026 10:22 am

Toward the end of last year (before the Bondi terrorist attack), I was talking with a young woman whose parents…

The response to ‘Javid Shah’ was bullets

30 January 2026 9:46 am

The uprising of the Iranian people, carried by the chant of ‘Javid Shah’, was drowned in blood. A chant that…

Shark numbers on the rise

29 January 2026 8:00 pm

It’s time to breathe new life into our decimated commercial shark fishery

I’m sorry, Prime Minister

29 January 2026 1:51 pm

On Australia Day, I found myself reflecting on the Prime Minister’s memorial service speech at the Sydney Opera House. And…

Why Western silence will burn Iran (and the world)

29 January 2026 11:57 am

The year 2026 has marked a grim milestone in Iranian history. The recent report by The Times, estimating a staggering…

Defending Australia’s eastern flank … from itself

28 January 2026 12:57 pm

Policy weaknesses in the Southwest Pacific

Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups

28 January 2026 10:40 am

The evidence of disadvantage in Indigenous communities throughout the world is overwhelming. There ought to be funding for programs designed…

Mass migration drives South Australia’s housing crisis

28 January 2026 3:00 am

Is this Malinauskas’ Achilles’ heel?

When immigration worked for the nation, not the United Nations

28 January 2026 12:57 am

They marched in their tens of thousands, a river of discontent flowing through the heart of Australia’s cities on its…

Are the Nationals an equal Coalition partner?

27 January 2026 11:46 pm

Give it a couple of weeks, or more precisely, a couple of pay cycles, and the National Party will be…

Sepehr… Baba… Where are you?

27 January 2026 11:35 pm

The Iranian government is murdering children

One Nation on the rise

27 January 2026 6:41 pm

Albanese slips into incompetence

Tony Burke cancels Israeli speaker’s visa

27 January 2026 3:48 pm

What about the radical preachers?