Politics
'Friendly' media could not save the Opposition

The impotence of Murdoch's News Corp, Sky News and the 2GB radio network as political persuader ...  
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EDITORIAL: Election lesson #1: Australians want the Far-Right-crazy dialled down, not up

While Saturday’s election result was an outstanding win for Albanese and Labor, it was also a ...  
Appeals against onshore student visa refusals boom in March

The Administrative Review Tribunal is struggling to cope with a high rate of appeals while dealing ...  
Doing our bit for the democracy sausage

Labor's election victory was the result of Australia's determination to prevent a Coalition ...  
Historic election result sees Labor triumph over Liberal catastrophes

Despite a less-than-stellar performance, Labor won the 2025 Election in a landslide due to the ...  
Morrison secretly appoints himself leader of the Labor Party

Following Saturday’s shock election result, which saw a Labor Party win of landslide proporti ...  
Labor's election win hopefully a turning point for environment

Following a landslide victory, Labor will have to answer to 96% of Australians, who say more ...  
Australian values key to rethinking defence strategy

The re-elected Labor Government has a chance to adopt a defence strategy that values what's most ...  
Coalition's problems far greater than a terrible campaign

The crushing defeat of the Coalition on Saturday stemmed from its inability to let go of hateful ...  
Labor victory proves public rejected malicious media falsehoods

Saturday’s electoral mauling of the Coalition was a resounding rejection of media lies and ...  
Albo TKOs Dutton as Gina's Libs gush ribands of blue from heartland

Australia has resoundingly voted to retain Labor’s Anthony Albanese as its PM — decimating ...  
Labor leaders past: Something to smile about

Between 2007 and 2013, Labor prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard "played musical chai ...  
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 ...  
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The Airwallex affair: Amelia Hamer’s Chinese-cash conflict of interest

Fintech executive Amelia Hamer, the blueblood Liberal Party hope to retake its former blue ...  
The Seinfeld election campaign

The 2025 election campaign from both sides has been much like the show Seinfeld — basically, a ...  
Australia's arms escalation is in the interest of no one but death

Instead of arguing about whether Australia needs more submarines, we would be better off working ...  
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EDITORIAL: 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 ...  

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