Politics
Royal Commission on Bondi attack raises questions of independence

As political pressure mounts, the royal commission into the Bondi attack is already facing scru ...  
Jacinta Price claims Labor is importing Indian voters

Migration claims about the Labor Government fall apart under scrutiny – the data tells a ...  
Invasion Day is truly worth protecting

As white nationalists try to “reclaim” Australia Day, Invasion Day remains the real counter ...  
Trump’s Venezuela abduction shatters claims of Western moral authority

By kidnapping a foreign leader, the Trump Administration has stripped the West of any credibility ...  
Adelaide Festival drops Randa Abdel-Fattah after Bondi attacks

Adelaide Festival has cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Writers Week appearance, citing “cultural ...  
Gangsters, genocide and gagging dissent

As Trump's world domination plans go into overdrive, managing editor Michelle Pini discusses the ...  
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EDITORIAL: Gangsters, genocide and gagging dissent

The so-called rule-based order has finally collapsed.  
The blind spot in Australia’s multicultural laws

As global tensions spill into everyday life, WA could lead the way in recognising harms that ...  
Russia-Ukraine peace and the Putin factor

Ukraine peace talks may be “95% done”, but Europe knows the final barrier isn’t borders — ...  
Australia’s ‘national interest’ falters in the face of Trump’s lawlessness

Australia’s leaders proclaim a rules-based international order, but fall conspicuously silent ...  
Australia's telco industry an essential service on weakening foundations

Australia’s telecommunications sector is facing rising prices, shallow competition and growing ...  
Bondi memorials become flashpoint for Israel-Palestine politics

Israeli flag displays at Bondi massacre memorials have exposed deep political fault lines over ...  
Why Australia’s ‘low unemployment’ claim doesn’t add up

Australia’s official unemployment figures rely on narrow definitions and exclusions that mask ...  
La Trobe Vice Chancellor invokes Bondi killings to defend festival censorship

The Vice Chancellor of La Trobe University used the Bondi attack to absolve himself over the ...  
Tony Abbott’s hypocrisy on immigration policy: What his time in office shows

Tony Abbott’s recent immigration rhetoric sits uneasily alongside the policies and outcomes of ...  
Prime ministerial loyalty on trial in Australia’s ‘Gaza’ war

The political uproar around antisemitism in Australia this coming year will hinge on what happens ...  
Let’s hope 2026 is way better than last year

Elections this year could continue the drift away from democracy, or reverse it.  
#1 STORY OF 2025: 75 reasons why Dutton is unfit to be PM

And finally to #1, by managing editor Michelle Pini, who in January built on the earlier work of ...