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Australia’s peak council for community services, the Australian Council of Social Service, has joined the torrent of support that includes the...
With fuel prices staying high, the federal government has announced a halving of the fuel excise for three months. This will cost the federal budget...
Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It is drafting marketing plans, writing code, preparing legal briefs and advising small business owners on...
Energy security is national security. And for all the posturing from conservatives about “seeing Mad Max levels around the country right now”...
In life, it is nice to have things you can count on, and every year at this time you can absolutely be guaranteed to hear business groups and their...
Crises “stress test” governments and countries. Memories remain vivid of Covid, which put immense pressures on the Australian economy, the...
The verdict in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday may become one of the most consequential legal challenges that Big Tech has faced. This is an...
A new book on the 2025 election reveals Labor’s commanding win – but also a fragmented electorate, a weakened opposition and a volatile political...
The New Daily readers overwhelmingly support a push by the Greens and crossbench MPs to impose a 25 per cent levy on gas exports. In a reader poll...
One Nation’s performance in the South Australian election has been rightly identified as a significant moment in Australian politics. Since the end...
New analysis of the national accounts reveals that all of the increase in inflation in the latter half of 2025 was due to increased profits, rather...
I had a strange dream the other night. I woke up as the chancellor of a large Australian university. Tens of thousands of students. Billions in...
With the Iran war continuing to escalate, the world is grappling with the closure of the busy sea traffic lane, the Strait of Hormuz. You may feel...
The dominant reason for Labor’s landslide victory in South Australia is that the party led by Peter Malinskasus has been a moderate, progressive...
In February the unemployment rate rose from 4.1 per cent to 4.3 per cent, providing further evidence the Reserve Bank misread the economy when it made...
As he looks to his own coming wrestle with One Nation in the May 9 Farrer by-election, Angus Taylor can only take from Saturday’s South Australian...
So much of what passes for Australian political discourse relies on existential threats. It’s easy to make grandiose statements and take positions...
Here’s a phrase that used to mean something else: Social cohesion. It described the project of building a society where people from different...
When he talks about the May 12 budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers always stresses that what’s done on things like the capital gains tax discount will be...
With just a day left in the South Australian election campaign, exclusive polling shows how much the Liberals stand to lose and who is voting for One...
US President Donald Trump is a victim of his own success. After a quick strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities last June and the capture of...
The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978,...
Australia’s tax system increasingly favours capital and older wealth while leaving younger Australians with rising debts and shrinking...
Louis Theroux’s latest Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere has many viewers asking why so many young men are drawn to online influencers who...
Once a small fishing and pearling village, Dubai has grown to become a major financial, commercial and tourism hub in the Middle East. It is the...
While we all face higher petrol prices, increasing cost of living impacts and the inconvenience of cancelled overseas flights, spare a thought for the...
New Nationals leader Matt Canavan has proposed allowing couples with dependent children to split their income for tax purposes. In simple terms, the...
Australia’s road freight industry is used to navigating uncertainty. Tight margins, labour shortages and volatile fuel costs have long been part of...
The Reserve Bank meets this week to decide if it will lift, cut or hold interest rates. The markets are predicting a rise. Given the surging price of...
Aged Care. The very words are enough to chill the room. It’s the place no one wants to “end up”. The thought that, at the end of a productive...
We may never know whether Donald Trump’s social media post about the Iranian women’s soccer team had anything to do with how the Australian...
What to say about the past week other than it is further evidence of how lost Australia’s leadership remains? Or, at the very least, how completely...
The AUKUS agreement has dragged Australia into the Trump administration’s war on Iran, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused of obfuscating...
By personality and at his stage in life, Dennis Richardson is a man who, on occasion, stands on his dignity. Richardson, 78, has a stellar public...
The Strait of Hormuz is the jugular vein of the world’s economic system. Iran has it in a chokehold and can put the knife across the Strait any time...
If you’ve been following politics long enough, you might remember John Howard insisting that the Liberal Party will always put One Nation last on...
A week into Trump’s illegal war against Iran, the White House released a 42-second video on X, featuring movie scenes spliced with real military...
Matt Canavan was once Barnaby Joyce’s staffer, and later his closest ally and most vociferous spruiker. Not to mention his best political friend....
The death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, during the holy month of Ramadan marks one of the most consequential turning points in the history...
David Littleproud’s decision to quit as Nationals Leader on Tuesday came as a shock to colleagues and follows a period of extreme turbulence for...
A month ago, Sussan Ley was the leader of the Liberal Party. Two weeks later, she retired from parliament altogether after losing the leadership to...
At the centre of most political grievance is a demand for dignity. This is easily exploited; it is easy, and, in this climate, fruitful, to claim that...
When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed federal parliament on Thursday, his well-crafted speech had one gaping hole. It did not mention the...
The leaked review of the Liberal Party’s 2025 election defeat details campaign failures and organisational problems. What it avoids is the harder...
The 2026 football season is upon us, that means that, once again, our screens and stadia will be polluted with wall-to-wall gambling advertising. Not...
Regular readers of my column will know that for years I have argued that Australia runs a rather simple, but historically very effective, national...
The only positive I took from Donald Trump’s shock victory in the 2016 US presidential election was that I was able to collect on a wager I had...
Travellers are being advised not to cancel their tickets for flights through the Middle East and check with their airlines, as airspace remains closed...
The 50 per cent capital gains tax discount departs from the original purpose of taxing real gains, entrenches inequality and unfairly advantages...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader for 36 years, has been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on his country, Iranian state media report....