2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (408+ words) The Albanese Labor government has announced that a digital duty of care will be imposed on social media companies to reduce online harm. The then Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland, in an address to the Sydney Institute in late 2024, foreshadowed the…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (566+ words) After the summer Pauline Hanson returned from Britain with Nigel in her handbag, even though he declined to meet her. The Reform slogans came through customs intact: the ‘uniparty’, the betrayed voter, the insurgency coming to smash a failed political…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (709+ words) The Spectator Australia Nobody east of the Rabbit-Proof Fence had heard of it two weeks ago, but WA’s Secret Harbour, like Doris Day’s ‘Secret Love’, is no secret anymore. And at some point in the not-too-distant future the contest for…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (288+ words) Both Hastie and Pickering come from an army background prior to entering politics, and are to be commended for their service to this nation. Both have families to think of. Both hold and present themselves well, as one would expect,…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (782+ words) Every few years we get all worked up as a country, and Canberra gets itchy feet about how to slap a new law on a problem and call it a fix. However, when it comes to the internet, the ‘fix…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (647+ words) Aaron Patrick spoke at the Gallipoli Memorial Club’s inaugural Lone Pine Dinner. At the event, he signed copies of his book on Australia’s war in Afghanistan, and in particular, accounts of Ben Robert-Smith’s actions that earned him the Victoria Cross....

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1298+ words) There is a simple way for Australians on the eastern seaboard to think about Western Australia’s GST deal. Forget, for a moment, the predictable interstate grievance, the ‘east coast versus west coast’ rhetoric and Roger Cook’s description of the Productivity…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1033+ words) The Prime Minister appeared distinctly agitated when answering questions about Bowen’s expensive and poorly attended paradise climate talkfest in Fiji. ‘It’s also going to cost taxpayers a lot of money,’ said one reporter, pushing their microphone into frame, ‘more than…...

1+ week, 1+ min ago   (764+ words) It sounds absurd that I should even ask. Yet the Albanese government’s latest move is so broad, so unnecessary and so open to abuse that the question is no longer far-fetched. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (965+ words) Aussies of a certain vintage will remember this classic ad from the 1980s, my favourite decade. Yes, following the success of that brilliant campaign, it was inevitable that a new disparaging slang word entered the Aussie vernacular – Clayton’s. It means a…...