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A wonk’s guide to Australian progressive politics

A self-proclaimed political wonk explains Australia’s baffling party system, why he voted Green ...  
The ABC's Antoinette Lattouf ‘issue’

"Deliberately starving and killing children is a war crime. Today, the court has found that puni ...  
The Clyde Mountain rocking horse conspiracy

When the rocking horses vanished from Clyde Mountain, the theories galloped faster than the ...  
The Great Australian Dream now belongs to landlords

With average house prices rocketing to over a million dollars, the Australian Dream has lost its ...  
Fair votes, fairer future: Why Australia needs electoral reform

Australia’s outdated electoral system is failing voters and it’s time we made every vote ...  
Middle East violence, Gaza genocide, no one safe in USA...BUT Trump 'snubs' Albo

Israel has started a war with Iran while continuing its onslaught in Gaza and the U.S. is ...  
One man’s ballad is another man’s exit cue

As Mick reads his poetry, Bazza drifts somewhere between a schooner and the seasons, writes John ...  
Morrison’s Companion of the Order for Gaslighting Australia

Scott Morrison – known for his inability to hold a hose and shirking all responsibility – has ...  
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EDITORIAL: Morrison’s Companion of the Order for Gaslighting Australia

Scott Morrison – known for his inability to hold a hose and shirking all responsibility ...  
Australia’s identity crisis: Still lucky, still lost

Australia once swaggered with sunburnt certainty. Now, it's a nation in flip-flops, fumbling for ...  
Undoing the promise of Mabo

More than two decades after Mabo, the promise of enduring native title is being quietly dismantled ...  
ELECTION LESSON #1: Australians want the Far-Right-crazy dialled down, not up

While Saturday’s election result was an outstanding Labor win, it was also a clear and powerful ...  
Anzac Day booing stunt an attempt to boost right-wing recruitment

Outrage sparked by the latest neo-Nazi stunt is all part of a political program to get signatu ...  
101 mind-blowing reasons why Dutton is unfit to be PM

We will soon learn whether Peter “Temu Trump” Dutton’s ultra-conservative Coalition can ...  
Shock poll sees voters reject Trump in favour of an independent Australia

A recent poll shows a seismic shift in voters’ views on Australia’s place in the world after ...  
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EDITORIAL: Trump poll of patriots shows independent Australia a hot election issue

Recent poll shows a seismic shift in voters’ views on Australia’s place in world after ...  
Coalition's resurrection hopes slump as punters dump Temu Trump

It would take a miracle of messianic proportions for Peter Dutton to defy the odds and secure ...  
Democracy, on the Government's terms

Australians must vote, but election dates remain a government secret. It's democracy with a twis ...  
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