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Since the federal budget, auction clearance rates have fallen and house prices have gone sideways. The slow-down in the housing market is being blamed...
Pauline Hanson wants to increase defence spending by an easy $340 billion a year or so, make it easier to sack workers (who she thinks are lazy),...
The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the official cash rate unchanged at 4.35 per cent, choosing to pause after raising interest rates three times...
The Socceroos’ success is more than a sporting story – it is a reminder that the children of migrants and refugees are not outsiders to...
After weeks of on-again, off-again negotiations, US President Donald Trump finally seems to have secured an agreement from the Iranian regime to end...
The rise of anti-establishment politics reflects a deeper loss of confidence in Australia’s economic model, making investment in science, research...
The US government is preparing a suite of events to celebrate “the most important milestone” in the country’s history – the 250th anniversary...
Every few months, the internet invents a new aesthetic. Cottagecore. Clean girl. Tomato girl summer. Mob wife chic. Now, gen Z has turned its gaze...
Want some good news? The next interest rate change will probably be a cut. Almost everything else I have to say is bad news. Interest rates have gone...
In 1968, American ecologist and eugenicist Garrett Hardin published his essay, the “Tragedy of the Commons”, in Science magazine. It posited that...
Australia’s housing crisis is a failure to provide a basic human right – that of a roof over one’s head. But it also poses a serious threat to...
After Labor targeted the threat of One Nation in a recent appeal to supporters for donations, the insurgents played tit for tat. One Nation on...
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is bankrolling the acquisition of a 9.5 per cent stake in Southern Cross Media by Bruce McWilliam, who worked for...
Current changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme will remove at least 241,000 people from the by the end of the decade. Some estimates are...
For those watching politics at the moment, none of it seems to make sense. Why would the Liberal Party, which arguably has the most to lose, at least...
Australia is a “migration nation”. This line is repeated so often that it risks becoming meaningless. The more interesting question is what type...
Do Australians really want reform? It’s a reasonable question to ask as the Albanese government weathers trenchant attacks on its recent federal...
Donald Trump looked at America’s 250th birthday this year and neurotically concluded that he’s the main attraction. A celebration intended to...
Class has always mattered, and now social democratic parties that sprung from a working class — including the Australian Labor Party – are finding...
This week will bring the first phase of talks paving the way to the next UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Türkiye later this year. It is a...
There was something quietly remarkable about a moment in question time this week. It was subtle, so subtle it was largely missed. But in response to...
Australians would be paying significantly more tax today if income tax brackets had been indexed to inflation since the Howard government came to...
When One Nation leader Pauline Hanson addresses the National Press Club on June 17, there will be landmines everywhere. It’s her first formal speech...
The United States is threatening to impose trade tariffs of up to 12.5 per cent on 60 countries, including Australia, over their inaction on forced...
The debate around the federal government’s changes to trusts, negative gearing and Capital Gains Tax has people all fired up about broken promises,...
US presidential elections are always about a choice for the future. Who do you want to lead the country? Who will best address your needs? But the US...
Back in 2009 (which seems an entirely different world at this point) then US president Barack Obama delivered the commencement address to the Notre...
A German child born in 2020 may spend 57 per cent of their lifetime wages paying for pensions, healthcare, aged care and unemployment benefits. At...
Polling points to a rapidly fragmenting electorate, with One Nation attracting unprecedented support and the major parties facing growing voter...
Almost 2.8 million of Australia’s lowest-paid workers will get a 4.75 per cent pay rise from July 1 this year, after the latest Fair Work Commission...
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person and one of the world’s most powerful mining magnates, recently helped finance a deal to acquire a 10 per...
I remember vividly being eight years old. My father was sitting beside the small fountain in our garden at the front of our home in suburban Adelaide....
Pauline Hanson and her party One Nation have dominated headlines after their recent electoral successes in South Australia and Farrer. A new national...
Increasingly Australians feel that they cannot get ahead. That the economy is failing to work for them. If people don’t have a stake in our society,...
A democracy is only ever as strong as its institutions and people’s trust in it. And yet, just this month, we have had Jewish people denied leave to...
At the 2022 election, “integrity” was a big-deal issue. Then after winning government, Labor ticked off a promise when it set up the National...
Changing voting patterns are no longer a reaction to short-term events, they are a rebellion against inequality, says Kos Samaris. Our new Multilevel...
When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate will look...
Health Minister Mark Butler has told the ABC that the government will push ahead with its proposal to change private health insurance rebates for...
Families are warning Australia’s aged-care system is “a shambles,” with long waits for assessments and services leaving vulnerable elderly...
When I was in my 20s, I was between jobs after an illness and signed up for unemployment benefits. As part of my “obligation” to the state, I had...
National Reconciliation Week gets attention. But attention is not change. In workplaces and communities, we are busy planning morning teas, screening...
Renewables and energy storage were pitched as a way to drive down power prices. But the hidden costs of the clean energy transition mean lower prices...
Housing affordability is one of those phrases everyone uses but few people define. Politicians across parties agree that housing should be more...
A BBC Panorama investigation has revealed serious allegations of assault on Channel 4’s hit reality show, Married at First Sight. Three women who...
The continuing saga of the White House ballroom is yet another sign that everything Donald Trump touches turns to anything but gold. Even Republicans...
As the Coalition competes with One Nation for rural and regional seats at the next federal election, the covert racism within the National Party and...
My husband and I are both 65. I no longer work but he still wants to work until age 67, when we can both get the age pension. Our combined super is...
The trick at the heart of Angus Taylor’s budget reply is that it punishes a group that cannot vote. Strip the NDIS, Jobseeker, Youth Allowance and...
There was a marked shift in Australian media in the past week, after Pauline Hanson released One Nation’s new gas policy. The headlines were all...