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Welcome to the new Socialist Commonwealth of Australia

4 May 2025 12:11 pm

The Labor Party has been re-elected and will form Australia’s next government. The Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, even lost his…

Voters go for Vegemite politics in ‘keep it local’ campaign

4 May 2025 9:22 am

In what must rate as easily Australia’s most pedestrian election campaign ever – both major parties have taken the lowest…

One Nation the big winner this election

4 May 2025 8:05 am

I’ve never underestimated Anthony Albanese for a moment. He is as asinine as they come. Ever since he came to…

Don’t blame Trump for this disaster – blame the Libs

3 May 2025 11:01 pm

Let me be crystal clear: the decision to distance the Liberal Party from Donald Trump was an unmitigated disaster. Anyone…

Peter Dutton concedes: it’s all over

3 May 2025 10:35 pm

We’ve been defined by our opponents which is not the true story of who we are

Election 2025: Peter Dutton vs. the world

2 May 2025 8:22 pm

Menzies’ party has been the most successful in Australian political history. Even in the last tumultuous decade, the Liberals have…

Election Truth Truck exposes Labor as anti-male

2 May 2025 7:41 pm

As our maddening election contest limps to a close, it might cheer you up to learn about our fun election…

What the Australian election means

2 May 2025 5:27 pm

In his political history of the 1980s and early 1990s, The End of Certainty, Paul Kelly articulated the tectonic shifts…

It’s not easy being Green… If we number every box

2 May 2025 1:03 pm

Australia desperately needs many electoral reforms, and there’s much debate to be had about them. We must face the reality…

When no means no

1 May 2025 8:05 pm

Does the Labor party need lessons in consent?

On 3 May, remember your Constitution

1 May 2025 2:19 pm

Let us be quite clear on this matter: it is irrelevant whether the Voice to Parliament is, to reference the…

Penny Wong is wrong

1 May 2025 12:30 pm

The Foreign Minister let slip that an Indigenous Voice-type structure might eventuate in Australia under a re-elected Labor government, just…

Labor’s superannuation tax grab will hurt us all

1 May 2025 9:55 am

Jim Chalmers has pressed ahead with ‘Division 296’, a banal-sounding name for one of the most pernicious taxes considered in…

Working Australians get nothing!

1 May 2025 7:57 am

From the National Press Club: Peter Dutton made a mistake by refusing to address the National Press Club this week.…

Trump not to blame for Poilievre loss

30 April 2025 4:32 pm

The left-of-centre (make that left-of-the-Canadian-centre, which is mightily left-wing) Liberal Party has won Monday’s federal election in Canada. Mark Carney,…

If we can’t talk about Welcome to Country, are we truly one and free?

30 April 2025 3:18 pm

Events in Melbourne have shown how strongly differing political views can dominate mainstream discussions. It’s concerning that past political perspectives…

One freebie at a time

30 April 2025 12:29 pm

Handouts and education failure are undermining democracy...

The con in conclave?

30 April 2025 12:18 pm

And other heavenly satire

The AI elephant in the Australian tally room

29 April 2025 6:00 pm

Sometimes disruption is not evolution – it’s extinction

Albo’s Mediscare has gone nuclear

29 April 2025 5:37 pm

Anthony Albanese is desperate to hold on to power. He revels in being an underestimated political underdog. Behind the scenes,…

A tale of two island nations

28 April 2025 3:10 pm

An old Pastor told me decades ago, ‘People should focus on what they do have, not what they don’t have.’…

Labor’s litany of lies

28 April 2025 1:57 pm

With time running out in the countdown to the May 3 Federal Election, Australia’s future may well depend on how…

Why the Coalition will lose

28 April 2025 10:06 am

While I’m not a prophet – or the son of a prophet – I’m going to make a political prediction…

Give Nashos another run

28 April 2025 9:56 am

In July 1972 I turned 21 and became eligible to cast a ballot at the next federal election. I had…

Will the real Dutton please stand up? (feat. Albo’s Morons)

26 April 2025 11:42 pm

Peter Dutton needs to take some inspiration from American rapper, Eminem. Eminem doesn’t give a toss what people think of…