Margo Kingston interviews Anna Broinowski who embedded herself in Pauline Hanson’s Senate campaign for the 2016 election. Kingston wrote Off The Rails about Hanson’s 1998 election campa…

On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...

BYV: A US submarine, an Australian sailor, and a war Australia never voted for. Why the alliance needs answering to, not just believing in.

BYV: A US submarine, an Australian sailor, and a war Australia never voted for. Why the alliance needs answering to, not just believing in.

By Bart Shteinman

The Albanese government introduced laws to ban kids from using social media, but it’s done little to stop kids from being subject to online gambling ads. The solutions are not hard or complicated. If ...

Sneering, denying, lecturing, lying. Andrew Brown puts the case for the Australian government to expel Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman.

Bryan Dawe interviews a senior Labor figure about the smoothest national conference in decades — three days, one open debate, and not a face in the room. A tribute in the spirit of Clarke and Dawe.…

BYV: Legally, your MP represents everyone in your electorate. In practice, what gets heard depends on what their party has already decided is acceptable.

Pauline Hanson has pledged to scrap SBS. The government needs to hear from the rest of us now.

A decades-long campaign of dispossession is accelerating fast.

In a Le Monde op-ed, Oman’s Badr al-Busaidi argues the West’s decades-long policy of “containing” Iran was always misguided, and that the true threat comes from Tel Aviv. Al-Busaidi pushes for a new s...

The ALP Conference this week will be carefully managed, but Labor’s deeper problem is a hollowed-out party increasingly driven by factions, polling and caution.

America's closest ally fought back, so America reached for a Depression-era weapon no president in 96 years would touch. Who pays? Check your trolley.

Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.

The Commission has found serious and possibly systemic corruption in the community infrastructure grants. It will not be investigating. It will be developing a PowerPoint. Urban Wronski channels Cl…

Last year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led the Labor Party to a historic victory, winning a landslide for his second term. The Liberal Party suffered its worst result since World War 2. But with t...

The unlawful discrimination case brought by Jayson Gillham against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra sprung from the orchestra's decision to cancel his scheduled performance over comments he made about...

Aspirationals fare best in more equal countries

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Without Multiculturalism, There Is No Snowy Hydro, No Modern Australia, and your Diet may be limited.

Australia getting nuclear subs is like a medieval knight putting on armor to fight diarrhea—externally an elaborate defense, internally, just a pile of shit.

The work of the left is to build coalitions around our shared struggle.

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Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech provided plenty of ammunition for at least some of her opponents

Diplomacy as seen from Seoul. Click to read Junotane, a Substack publication.

By Dr Mehreen Faruqi

Surveying the Australian news in the wake of Senator Pauline Hanson’s chilling anti-Muslim, anti-trans address at the National Press Club yesterday, a photo of the VIP table at the event caught my eye...

By Toyo White and Jovilyn Rabino

Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.

The system is not broken. It's working exactly as designed. The headlines the mainstream media won't run.

Building the Australia We Want Means Changing the Rules That Produce the One We Have.

This sketch is written in the tradition of John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, whose work set the standard for Australian political satire. It is offered as homage, not impersonation. John Clarke died in A…

The Coalition’s natural voter just became Australia’s largest diaspora. It doesn’t vote for them.

One Nation calls itself the battler’s friend. Gina Rinehart’s plane, the NRA’s phone calls and Big Coal’s Senate votes tell a different story. Howard sowed the tares.

King Charles visits the court of Donald Trump.

I will have plenty to say about the Supreme Court’s decision today in Callais v.

Most Australians don't know that requesting a postal vote through a political party hands that party your personal data. Here is what actually happens - and how to vote safely by post.

Australia cannot keep treating Israel as a normal diplomatic partner. Sign our open letter to Prime Minister calling on the Australian Government to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel.

The Palace knew about Kerr’s plan to dismiss Whitlam. Whitlam did not. Fifty-one years later, the same Crown is phoning the American president to sell AUKUS. Urban Wronski on the loyalty that…

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