Old jokes home: They laughed when I said I’d make a career in stand-up comedy.

While the public debate on housing shortages is as ill-informed as ever, one solution is not just obvious, but been well and truly tested.

One Nation’s rise is often treated as cultural anger. New data point to something more concrete: poor health, financial insecurity and communities left without the services that make life work.

The federal government has spent years declaring its ambitions for Australia to become a renewable energy superpower, exporting what the world needs to decarbonise, such as green iron and critical minerals. Remarkably little of that conversation has been about the state that will be central to achieving this goal.

Those of you not into torturous, pantomime-level political inquisitions may not have been following recent events at the NSW Independent...

The establishment loves this phrase. But as Ed Husic found out, imposing consensus from the top isn't democracy – it's erasure.