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Another week, another renewable energy subsidy

16 August 2026 3:23 pm

Labor is putting their hand in your pocket to keep green energy alive

Students waste their time and energy protesting Pauline

16 August 2026 2:37 pm

Political passion in the young is not the problem. Its direction is...

The Pauline protests: a day out during Mao’s cultural revolution

16 August 2026 10:30 am

This is the opposite of democracy. This is fascism and communism to the core...

Ben Carroll’s Union power play

15 August 2026 3:23 pm

The Victorian Labor government moves bill to outlaw Red Union

Identity politics is modern communism

15 August 2026 1:26 pm

How progressive politics unpicked Western Enlightenment one dangerous idea at a time

Latest polling reveals path to victory for conservatives

15 August 2026 12:23 pm

With the right split between One Nation, the Liberals, and Nationals ... victory has become a complex calculation of preferences

Government to hand more power to eSafety Commissioner

14 August 2026 11:09 pm

The regulator’s own record is reason enough not to trust it with more powers

Make Australian genealogy affordable

14 August 2026 4:34 pm

As Australia’s 250th anniversary approaches, let’s make it cheaper for Australians to access the records that reveal their family’s story

New Victorian Premier Carroll backs away from unworkable WFH laws

14 August 2026 1:29 pm

The last thing Victoria needed was a confusing, heavy-handed, productivity-destroying and investment-sapping law

Melon jokes cannot fix Labor’s man problem

14 August 2026 1:14 pm

Cringe blokey jokes will not make Labor more appealing to the young men it has left behind

Japanese melons and the malaise of modern politics

13 August 2026 11:27 pm

Anthony Albanese has taken Labor down a ‘low road’ only to find no handy exits on the way

A modern-day Odyssey

13 August 2026 1:30 am

Lessons Australia is only now beginning to learn

The curious case of the wrong feelings

13 August 2026 1:00 am

The rise of One Nation is not occurring because millions of Australians have suddenly stopped thinking

WA Parliament should keep the Lord’s Prayer

13 August 2026 12:30 am

It is a solemn symbol of the foundational Judeo-Christian values that made our liberal democracy possible

The One Nation of our discontent

12 August 2026 8:08 pm

The major parties do not grasp how deeply they are hated. That is because the political class is not merely out of touch. It lives in a different world...

Strategy of the pro-Australia parties to the next election

12 August 2026 6:53 pm

If they cannot say something good about One Nation, they should say nothing at all

Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition

12 August 2026 4:49 pm

A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe

International Law and the immigration game

12 August 2026 4:33 pm

The ‘Views of Hosts’ were a list of regulations made by a statute of 1439 which required that money made…

A mostly cynical, mushroom-cloud-shaped message to Moscow

12 August 2026 3:47 pm

Was the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to end the war?

Patriotism: the last default

12 August 2026 2:48 pm

The nation is the only institution Australians are still born into. Do they value it enough?

Census: a question of religion

11 August 2026 9:01 pm

If we are going to spend three quarters of a billion dollars counting the country, we might at least count it properly

The de-Christianisation of the nation

11 August 2026 5:08 pm

Christianity is in decline, not just in Australia, but throughout the Western world

Should Australia care where migrants spend their money?

11 August 2026 4:18 pm

Many skilled migrants, especially from lower-income countries, send discretionary income overseas

Identity politics is the root cause of Albo’s success

11 August 2026 3:53 pm

And it might just be the greatest challenge to our liberal democracy

Australia’s doctors need their Kory moment

10 August 2026 6:41 pm

We have seen the regulation of opinion, enforced through the livelihoods of the one profession whose candour patients depend upon most.