After a 31-year career as the ABC's finance guru, Alan Kohler announced this week that he's leaving the organisation. He joins Saturday Extra to talk about the latest interest rate hike, the housing ...

Property prices are up 78% since 2020, so the decline to date has erased only one year of gains. And it’s made the market more affordable for first-home buyers.

ABC Media Watch has accused this reporter of "perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories" online. We say the ABC has failed

Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions

We are clearly creating a kind of non-biological life, an idea that has been clarified by several events in the past couple of weeks.

In the first scene of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the titular characters pass their time flipping coins in a place without any visible character. That is the scenic description.

The decision of the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission, to approve the biggest coalmine ever to come before it, is based on a simple falsehood: that the 809 million tonnes of greenhouse g...

For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.

When Pauline Hanson labelled SAS veteran and Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a ‘traitor’ eight times, then animated the insult and pinned it to the top of her social media feed, she did more than p...

Australians can’t afford to be complacent – Pauline Hanson also thinks it’s OK to shut out reporters she doesn’t like

Labor’s new migration restrictions respond to public concerns about immigration, but tighter visa rules alone cannot resolve deeper anxieties about housing, economic security and social change.

In the second of a two-part series, rebuilding trust requires more than competent economic management – Australians also need institutions that listen, include and respond.

Like Macklemore and Ed Sheeran, and Ed Sheeran’s band and Ed Sheeran, relations between Penny Wong and myself are “complicated”....

Repeated reversals and broken promises are feeding a broader collapse of trust that reaches from economic policy to government transparency and defence.

The decisions made 25 years ago during the Tampa crisis are still shaping politics

Labor is in a curious position: it has a policy that works, but it cannot say so. Treasurer Jim Chalmers should be able to say: yes, house prices are coming down slightly; they need to. That is the po...

Trump’s threats against countries trading with Iran expose the limits of US economic power, as allies resist Washington’s demands and the global economy moves towards a less American-dominated order.

Financial stress is rising and life satisfaction is falling, but Australians’ discontent runs deeper than household budgets to growing distrust in politics and government.

An Haaretz investigation says Netanyahu failed to pass on a warning of a major Hamas operation, while Israeli officials later rejected an unconditional offer to release civilian captives.

Financial stress is rising and life satisfaction is falling, but Australians’ discontent runs deeper than household budgets to growing distrust in politics and government.

Australia has no shortage of wealth, projects or policy targets. What it lacks is a coherent strategy for building the capabilities its future society will need.

The Albanese government may be adept at negotiating with insiders, but its failure to explain decisions and engage voters is deepening public distrust.

Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s milita...

No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.

No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.

In the long term Chalmers, O’Neil and Albanese will want to own any improvement in intergenerational equity, so maybe it’s better to start now

Schools, of course, are not solely responsible for appalling student behaviour. Parents and culture also figure - and culture-building is the biggest single reason to end edu-tribalism.

There is no reason to believe that there is something uniquely Australian about antisemitism.

Australia cannot make housing more affordable while protecting homeowners from falling prices. The current downturn may reveal how serious politicians really are about fixing the system.

As Labor and Coalition support has collapsed, the Greens have remained stuck around 12 per cent – constrained by geography, culture and a changing generational base.

Free AI models that are as good as the investment-hungry US versions will disrupt global markets, and offer Britain a lesson, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

As a major new biography of the former prime minister goes on sale, he talks about meeting the Queen, Trump’s aims, and why his big vision will never fade

Western Australia’s Labor Party spoon-fed Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party the state seat of Secret Harbour last Saturday (29/8/26) by running gas lobbyist Georgia Tree as their candidate. The Labor ...

Data centres could consume 13 per cent of National Electricity Market power by 2036. Australia should require them to bring new firmed renewable energy rather than add pressure to the grid.

Western Australia’s Labor Party spoon-fed Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party the state seat of Secret Harbour last Saturday (29/8/26) by running gas lobbyist Georgia Tree as their candidate. The Labor ...

Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

There has long been significant undercounting of Palestinians deaths as the Genocide continues.

Andy Burnham is in need of radical proposals. A ‘care first’ year in exchange for 50% off fees could be just what he needs

An Australian Greens Senator is asking the questions that too many politicians are afraid to ask, and it could uncover some very uncomfortable truths about Australian politics.

America’s record of failed wars exposes the limits of military power and raises serious questions about Australia’s continued reliance on the United States.

The NSW Minns government has introduced legislation (more of it) expanding police powers, this time to extract data from mobile...

Any money being paid to dine with Anthony Albanese should be a matter of public record

Football fans professing disillusionment at an alleged sexual assault investigation involving football players either haven't been paying attention, or have hypocritically supported a sports culture t...

NSW Supreme Court judge Desmond Fagan has published a judgment that exposes some of the biggest lies being tendered as evidence and submissions by Zionist Jews at the Antisemitism Royal Commission and...