Politics
Australia’s economic slowdown shows inflation strategy is working

Australia’s slowing economy, easing house prices and weaker wage growth show policies to curb ...  
Europe’s dependence on Morocco has become a security risk

Europe’s reliance on Morocco for migration and security has handed Rabat dangerous leverage over ...  
Australia’s major parties converge on net migration targets

Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are edging closer on net migration targets as political ...  
Australia’s China policy built on a strategic double standard

Australia’s approach to China reveals a strategic double standard that judges allies and adve ...  
Merchants of anger, fear and hatred thrive in Australia

Malicious lies continue to destroy social cohesion, life satisfaction and awareness of the state ...  
Climate refugees are not protected under existing international law

No clear definition of a "climate refugee" currently exists in international law.  
Ukrainian activist found guilty of high treason in political "show trial"

Bogdan Syrotiuk was found guilty of high treason — the evidence presented at his "trial" w ...  
Far-Right secretive political group Advance appears at election inquiry

Far-Right Advance "stacked" with Liberal Party operatives and backed by billionaires.  
BOOK REVIEW: Landslide — The 2025 Australian Federal Election

A comprehensive account of the 2025 Election that misses what Labor’s landslide reveals about ...  
Australian War Memorial must tell the whole truth of the Frontier Wars

The Australian War Memorial needs to tell the full story of the Frontier Wars, including massacres ...  
Japan’s yen crisis could hit Australian households next

Japan’s yen crisis could expose Australia to rising borrowing costs, a weaker dollar and a fresh ...  
Neo-Liberal comic economics with Dave Hughes

Previously a comedian, Dave Hughes has become a self-professed corruption crusader and economics ...  
Barnaby Joyce discovers the political power of pinkwashing

Sexuality does not confer political virtue any more than ethnicity or faith does.  
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EDITORIAL: Neo-Liberal comic economics with Dave Hughes

Widely reported by Australia’s mainstream media, Melbourne radio host and property investor Dave ...  
Canberra bets against China while banking on its trade

Australia is arming against China while remaining economically dependent on the very power it is ...  
The Tampa crisis: 25 years on

It was winter 2001 when the Tampa hullabaloo blew up: the watershed moment when decent agreement ...  
NBN’s success vindicates original vision — but the job's not done

NBN Co's FY26 results demonstrate the transition from copper to fibre is producing the bene ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN: Living dangerously — the life of a dingo

NSW Parliament will begin hearings on 8 September 2026 on the management of dingoes in national ...  

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