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As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has two major problems – and that’s leaving aside One...
In late June, during London Climate Action week, I experienced the extreme heatwave that closed schools, shut down public transport and led to...
Ten years ago I was a new lawyer working in welfare rights at a community legal centre when Robodebt arrived. Most know the story. An automated debt...
By referring in his AI speech to such nation-changing reforms as Medicare and compulsory superannuation, both Labor initiatives, Prime Minister...
The scandal that has swamped KPMG in the past month has many moving parts, but it can all be summarised in one earthy Australian expression –...
It says a lot about who holds control in today’s world by how we talk about AI. The “inevitability” that surrounds the AI conversation – as...
Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become the main bone of contention between the US and Iran in their prolonged conflict. In the face of...
I have published enough columns (this is my 257th for The New Daily) and posted enough on social media (on X I published almost 50,000 data posts in...
In the months since the Bondi terror attack in December 2025, One Nation’s popularity has surged. Opinion poll after opinion poll has support for...
Every generation of Australians before this one was socialised by place. You grew up in a suburb and that suburb came with an inheritance, a history...
Every Australian knows what it feels like to search for a home. Whether it’s a young person trying to enter the market, a family looking for more...
Another major telco outage has raised the question: What happens when you call triple zero and can’t get through? This week, Telstra blamed a...
If you are feeling financially depleted personally, and pessimistic about the economic outlook generally, figures released this week won’t cheer...
Britain’s High Court has ruled in favour of Daily Mail publisher Associated Newspapers in the lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and other public...
Few cultural moments reveal our contradictions quite like a wedding. We live in an era where marriage is no longer considered the inevitable...
Australians woke Wednesday morning to a major outage affecting Telstra, the country’s largest telecommunications network. But mobile phones...
Of all the stupidity Australians have accepted as “normal”, our relationship with house prices may be among the most ridiculous. This nation is in...
Just 2.1 divorces per 1000 adults were granted in Australia in 2024. That’s lower than during the recession of the 1990s, when financial strain...
The current political debate about what Australia should look like frames diversity as a problem. First Nations cultures teach something very...
The United States has abandoned the rules and habits of diplomacy in favour of threats, sanctions and violence. If the West wants peace, it must...
Redundancies, hiring freezes and corporate restructures are increasingly being justified in the language of artificial intelligence. What might once...
[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the names and pictures of deceased Aboriginal persons. Readers...
Right-wing podcasting in Australia is akin to a craft beer with a niche following. It is not a mass market. Karl Stefanovic and Nine have parted ways...
Labor finished the last parliamentary week on a high. There is a feeling within caucus that the party has a plan for dealing with One Nation, helped...
As Labor parliamentarians fled Canberra late this week for their long winter break, they could reassure themselves the bruises sustained in a...
The political debate about migration often boils down to a numbers game. The question is typically what the precise level should be and the answer...
US Vice President JD Vance said last week that the US wins “either way” in negotiations with Iran. “If we make the final deal, then great,”...
It’s axiomatic that a better educated community makes for a fairer, more productive, more prosperous nation. But Australia has a cost-of-learning...
Whether we acknowledge it or not, our society runs on trust. Trust that someone will stop at a pedestrian crossing or red light, that the driver next...
Why do people move to cities? We move because something in our life changes. We finish school. We start uni. We find a partner. We split from a...
Feeling gloomy about the future? You’re not alone. New data shows economic pessimism is growing in Australia, and the implications reach far beyond...
TV journalist and broadcaster Karl Stefanovic cast his departure from Nine’s Today Show as a win for “free speech”, a framing the world’s...
For the past six Monday mornings since the federal budget, there has been breathless reporting on how auction clearance rates have fallen over the...
Rupert Murdoch is almost certainly the most globally influential Australian. That Australia has one of the most concentrated media markets in the...
Belle Burden’s best-selling memoir Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, which chronicles the sudden collapse of her 21-year marriage, has brought a...
You can almost trace the rise of political discontent across Western democracies to the increase of big dumb utes on our roads. This is not about...
The Lowy Institute’s annual poll, released this week, carried two important signals for politicians and other policy makers about Australian...
Somewhere along the way, we stopped thinking about housing as a home and started thinking about it only as a wealth creation mechanism. That shift,...
Keir Starmer’s resignation as Prime Minister is not Britain’s first leadership transition in government, and it is unlikely to be the last. These...
Most of the time, it can be difficult to differentiate LNP MP Ted O’Brien from a beige wall. A persistent underachiever, he has nevertheless proved...
In last week’s column I showed that 59 per cent of GPs (General Practitioners or Family Doctors) in Australia were foreign born nationals at the...
One Nation’s rapid rise has left political science and orthodox analysis struggling to explain why a chaotic party with little policy depth and a...
On a remote beach near Esperance, Western Australia, two sick seabirds have brought the bird flu crisis to Australia. Testing has confirmed highly...
So what is the middle income for Australians? Each year, the ATO’s taxation statistics provide insight into this topic, and this year’s release is...
The latest annual statistics from the Tax Office reveal the gender pay gap remains very real and spans almost every occupation. The annual tax...
Many people are shocked by the price of the AUKUS agreement. The government has budgeted a staggering $368 billion, hundreds of times the cost of a...
If Australia’s current political environment were a Bond film, we have reached the point where the villain feels comfortable enough to explain their...
From rugged wilderness trails and epic outback adventures to lush tropical hinterlands, Australia offers some of the world’s most unforgettable...
Only a little more than a year into its second term and with Pauline Hanson turning politics upside down, the Albanese government finds itself in...
The memorandum of understanding that ostensibly ends the four-month war between the US and Iran illuminated the profound US defeat. In addition, a...
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