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Victoria’s election on November 28 has taken on a drama and significance we wouldn’t have anticipated a year ago. A sudden late change of premier,...
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage’s decision to resign his Clacton seat and force a by-election, amid scrutiny over his personal finances, has produced...
There are a couple of global trends colliding with each other at the moment. On one hand, we have, as discussed in this column eons ago, the...
“Disappointing” was the best Guardian Australia could muster when Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banned it from a press conference, this time...
Every time a celebrity appears to lose weight, the same debate begins. Some people say we shouldn’t comment on another person’s body. Others argue...
As a demographer, I spend my days counting babies, migrants and retirees. But the real job is not counting people, it’s working out where they...
The new-look Commonwealth Games wrapped up in Glasgow yesterday morning (Australian time) with plenty of questions about the stripped-back format and...
The Liberal Party of Australia has fallen on hard times as the party struggles to attract voters and weathers leadership uncertainty. In his first...
I currently have an income account with QSuper from which I draw a monthly pension. As I am over 60, my pension is tax free. I have heard that if I...
When did we decide joy was a commodity we couldn’t afford? Much has been written on the ‘politics of joy’, the term coined to explain New York...
At last week’s Labor conference, which was totally under the Prime Minister’s thumb, only one issue was contested on the floor – support for the...
One Nation has confirmed that it will not only include student visas in its annual 130,000 cap, but that it also wants to deport 100,000 students...
Australia’s union movement, representing around 1.6 million workers, will have two new leaders by the end of this year, in a surprise move only...
At the conclusion of last week’s Labor national conference, Nine Newspapers’ Rob Harris made Anthony Albanese’s frustrations clear. Albanese...
The OECD’s annual employment outlook confirms that not only did profits drive Australia’s inflation in 2022, but that growing profits are also...
After a tumultuous 24 hours, the Labor Party in Victoria has decided it will have Ben Carroll as its new leader and therefore Premier of Victoria....
There are two reasons to go to university. Firstly, university can be great fun. You drink, socialise, date, make lifelong friends and spend...
There is something almost perfectly pick-me about Pauline Hanson. The term “pick-me girl” is usually cast around on TikTok and social media as an...
I’m going to be 66 this year. I rent a house, I work as a bookkeeper and I have very little super, almost $45,000 only. What are my options for the...
As oil supply chains are adapting to disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian ships in the Red Sea threaten this backup...
Labor’s national conference has come and gone as expected – without bloodshed or public disagreement. Labor, under Anthony Albanese, has been a...
After uncertainty and cost-cutting, the 2026 Commonwealth Games are finally under way in Glasgow. With the FIFA World Cup only just in the rearview...
Bill Kelty has been a member of the Labor Party since 1964 but he is not among the hundreds of delegates at the party’s national conference in...
Last weekend, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson delivered a speech to the right-wing CPAC London titled “the Australian fight back”. Around 120...
In a striking incident that highlights the growing risks of unchecked advanced artificial intelligence development, ChatGPT maker OpenAI admitted on...
Pauline Hanson’s recent visit to Tower Hamlets in East London with British right-wing figure Tommy Robinson was intended as a warning. Surveying one...
Hundreds of fires are burning in Canada, with smoke enveloping a swathe of the US in recent days, prompting warnings to residents to stay indoors....
It may seem counter-intuitive, but Pauline Hanson and others in her far-right ilk may be among Australia’s most open politicians – at least when...
Demography is the study of people – for businesses and industries. It helps answer two questions: “Who will buy my stuff, and who will do the...
It is the politicians most loudly claiming to defend “Western values” who are among the most dedicated to undermining them. Pauline Hanson stands...
A new movement, “masculinism”, is uniting the right behind extreme anti-feminist views, chiefly in the United States. It promotes the dominant...
Every US presidency runs an implicit profit and loss account. The Trump presidency is no different. But the profit and loss account is: Donald...
US President Donald Trump used a rare nationwide prime-time address to again claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen, US voting machines...
So much of our politics is a distraction. And deliberately so. Fake fights over nuclear – no one in mainstream politics actually believes nuclear...
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...