Surprising many inside the party and out, David Shoebridge has been chosen as the new leader of the Australian Greens, with Steph Hodgins-May as deputy.

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Anthony Albanese’s recent performance on the world stage in New York was a breathtaking piece of rhetorical acrobatics.

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In a speech to the National Press Club, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has attempted to redefine the immigration debate. But what lies beneath?

To click or not to click, that is the question! 'Elsinork' is a multi-path text adventure about a depressed prince, set in Denmark. Can you

When around 300 screen practitioners gathered at Lennox Head last week for ScreenWorks' two-day Regional to Global Screen Forum, the setting was half the story. Here was a serious industry conversatio...

The government's draft bill for a new approach to online safety is currently up for public discussion, and various people are getting hot under the collar about it, particularly those whose political ...

He looks up to see they're all here, standing in a queue waiting for lunch.

Live on wheels... The revolution will not be motorised!

Last week the government demonstrated its flagrant disregard for science and common sense from Washington to Palau, and from Canberra to Darwin.

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Held by Labor since 1989, Pauline Hanson's One Nation has comfortably won the Western Australian state lower house seat of Secret Harbour in Saturday's by-election, sending shockwaves across the count...

A feature film script in nine parts. Two worlds, one love, no second chance. An outlaw love story from a dangerous time. Based on the life o

Later, the two friends only saw each other rarely, once every few years, but the conversation continued as though no time at all had passed.

Last week, government and opposition found themselves singing from the same song sheet in parliament on a range of issues, from the NDIS to ASIO, and big tech to gambling advertising.

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The final day of my 2026 Byron Writers Festival went from John Howard's pernicious effect on Australia to poetry in the dark; from being funny about serious things to first time writers made good, and...

Saturday's program at the 2026 Byron Writers Festival covered a lot of ground, from politics to favourite novels, from myths to the manosphere.

This year's Byron Writers Festival witnessed a remarkable lecture from the legendary and much-loved journalist Kerry O'Brien, now a Northern Rivers local, on 'Lessons From History'.

There was a lot less mud and a lot more walking at this year's glorious celebration of words, the Byron Writers Festival, which took place in a series of venues around Byron Bay over the last three da...

After six days of public hearings, the Senate inquiry into the NDIS amendments tabled its final report on Friday. Most of the critical findings are likely to be ignored by the Albanese government, whi...

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With parliament still on winter break, last week's most explosive revelations in Canberra came from the Senate committee examining the government's proposed gambling reforms.

The screenwriting get-together was organised at an exclusive hotel in the middle of the wine country. Each day, tractors could be seen spray

Can boring beat bonkers? The Victorian Labor Party apparently thinks so, having chosen Ben Carroll as the state's new premier.

When I was a kid, it used to drive me crazy when my father said, 'People are just people'. What did it even mean? Five years since he left the planet,

The Australian Labor Party's 50th Annual Conference, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, was a tightly stage-managed affair.

More justification of this adage has arrived with Nationals' MP Kevin Hogan's response to the next level stupidity known as the final report of the Northern Rivers Resilience Initiative (NRRI).

Every neighbourhood has them. Unelected community ambassadors. Self promoters. Are they selling houses, or selling themselves?

After going through six prime ministers in the last ten years, the not-so United Kingdom is likely to soon notch up its seventh.

Maybe it's time to get over being scared of the city. Not any city, just this particular one. It's not the city's fault all these things hap

While Australia's parliamentarians were frocking up for the mid-winter ball last week, representatives of the nation's authors, musicians and artists were in Canberra pleading for assurances that the ...

In the end, the attack didn't take the form anyone was expecting. The rogue intelligence was developed by a private company at the behest o

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Community Strong Australia chose to announce its existence to the world with an image showing two women, teal MPs Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall, isolated on the vast expanse of the Parliament Hous...

In a climate of suspicion, immigrants are being murdered. When a young woman, Lilla, is arrested, the lawyer appointed to defend her, Michae

Last week Australia had a glimpse of what life might be like under Prime Minister Pauline Hanson, via two speeches, one in Canberra and one in Townsville.

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Beyond the froth and bubble of the daily political soap opera, there are some major threats confronting Australia and its government.

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Senate Estimates descended into 'Yes Minister' territory last week when the vexed subject of AUKUS came up, following the revelation from deputy PM and defence minister Richard Marles that Australia's...

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The sudden resignation of controversy-plagued National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Paul Brereton has served to further highlight the failings of an organisation which began with such high hopes, havi...

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Seven years since losing his seat in ignominious circumstances, Tony Abbott has returned from his long penance in the wilderness of Sky News and CPAC to become the latest president of what remains of ...

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