The question is no longer whether that is polite—it is whether it is still tolerable.

The Greens need leadership with charisma and cut-through. We’ll have to wait and see if David Shoebridge and Steph Hodgins-May can pull that off.

With One Nation on the rise on the right, will David Shoebridge be able to help the Greens gain similar traction on the left?

Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.

David Shoebridge has been elected leader of the Greens, with the new deputy leader being Steph Hodgins-May, and the question most voters will be asking is: Will it make a difference? It […]

Australian households are taking on much bigger mortgages than they were 15 years ago. And our incomes haven’t kept up, either.

Shoebridge at a post-ballot news conference focused on the Greens going after Labor, arguing it had left a vacuum by ‘rushing to the right’.

Inspired by his UK counterpart, the new Greens leader will likely lean into left-wing populism over the pragmatism of his predecessor.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are increasingly overrepresented in out-of-home care. Protecting children means making the system answer for the warnings it misses and the failures it r...

Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger qu...

Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker

Netanyahu has repeatedly denied receiving warnings before 7 October. Now a source says he privately asked the UAE president to deny one of the accounts.

Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits

Australia’s Left must unite and rise to meet the moment

Shoebridge, a senator from New South Wales and former upper house state MP, won the role over Mehreen Faruqi and Sarah Hanson-Young

On Episode 82 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Ambassador John Lander returns for an episode on Australia as a US military colony and sovereignty gone via the 2014 Force Posture Agreement and AUKUS.

The WA GST deal has cost almost $23 billion and left other states short. Political convenience is overriding fairness, independent advice and the national interest.

Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in...

The RBA has lifted rates to 4.6 per cent, concentrating much of the pain of fighting inflation on younger households with mortgages. A tighter budget could spread the burden more fairly, but serious s...

Having created market expectations that it would raise rates, the Reserve Bank board delivered, demonstrating its incompetence.

When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state

A commercial flight carrying 174 people to Tel Aviv has been forced to divert to Saudi Arabia after one pilot stabbed the other and tried to crash the plane, according to the Israeli PM.

Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we

Israeli courts put on a show of indicting criminals who kill and maim Palestinians, but the final verdict — a presidential pardon and a hero’s welcome — is already predetermined.

Netanyahu’s speech at the UN General Assembly was not directed at the world, but Israelis. He was trying to convince them that Israel doesn’t need to change, as long as it stands united against the wo...

Millions of dollars worth of cocaine stored as evidence at a high court in Fiji are missing after they were found to have been replaced.

Netanyahu has repeatedly denied receiving warnings before 7 October. Now a source says he privately asked the UAE president to deny one of the accounts.

The Greens need leadership with charisma and cut-through. We’ll have to wait and see if David Shoebridge and Steph Hodgins-May can pull that off.

The Greens have appointed newcomer David Shoebridge as their new leader after Larissa Waters stepped down due to ill health.

Australia is campaigning for a UN Security Council seat on a promise to uphold international law and defend middle powers. Its record on Gaza, Indigenous rights, military alliances and international rulings tells a far less consistent story.

With only weeks to go until elections in Israel, an unrelenting stream of well-sourced, detailed stories has suddenly appeared, documenting multiple failures by Benjamin Netanyahu to heed warnings of ...

More than half of Australians want to see the country’s migrant intake lowered while One Nation’s primary vote climbs to 25%

The review, released on Friday, said no government data or sensitive information was compromised during the incident.