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Australia's hate speech laws could yet make a martyr out of Pauline

Australia's hate speech laws could yet make a martyr out of Pauline

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The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Australia's hate speech laws could yet make a martyr out of Pauline

Australia's hate speech laws could yet make a martyr out of Pauline

Soon we will find out just how far freedom of speech goes in Australia. Subscribe today for the news that matters Login or signup to continue reading...

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Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

One place Trump faces scrutiny

One place Trump faces scrutiny

Whatever the result of the mid-terms, one inquiry into President Donald Trump’s conduct will not easily go away without a humiliating backdown on...

03.11.2026 50

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Donald Trump may have picked the wrong target this time

Donald Trump may have picked the wrong target this time

Whatever the result of the mid-terms, one inquiry into President Donald Trump's conduct will not easily go away without a humiliating backdown on...

03.11.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Donald Trump may have picked the wrong target this time

Donald Trump may have picked the wrong target this time

Whatever the result of the mid-terms, one inquiry into President Donald Trump's conduct will not easily go away without a humiliating backdown on...

03.11.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Israel's lessons for Victoria

Israel's lessons for Victoria

The Israeli election has some lessons for Australia. Especially for the Victorian election in four weeks’ time. As in Israel, a majority of voters...

02.11.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Israel is just the start. This is a crucial warning for our next elections

Israel is just the start. This is a crucial warning for our next elections

The Israeli election has some lessons for Australia. Especially for the Victorian election in four weeks' time. Subscribe now for unlimited...

31.10.2026 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Big Tech will not regulate itself. Democracy has to

Social media platforms have grown rich from systems that amplify outrage and harmful content. Australia’s proposed digital duty of care would shift...

27.10.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Big tech is destroying democracy and political cowards are letting it happen

It seems a race is on. Will democratic states be able to control the tech companies and their products before the tech companies buy control of, or...

27.10.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Big tech is destroying democracy and political cowards are letting it happen

It seems a race is on. Will democratic states be able to control the tech companies and their products before the tech companies buy control of, or...

27.10.2026 40

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

We had a rule when I was an editor. It's out the window now in the era of outrage

Helen Haines's electorate office is in Murphy Street, Wangaratta's main street. Most members of Parliament have their electorate offices in...

21.10.2026 30

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

We had a rule when I was an editor. It's out the window now in the era of outrage

Helen Haines's electorate office is in Murphy Street, Wangaratta's main street. Most members of Parliament have their electorate offices in...

21.10.2026 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Housing reform shows tax changes work. Now Australia needs to go much further

Housing tax reform shows how strongly tax settings shape behaviour. Australia should now shift more of the tax burden from work and employment towards...

20.10.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Time to double the GST? The cost-of-living debate we need to have

Australia is now seeing perhaps the starkest example in recent history of how tax changes affect human behaviour and the economy as a whole. Subscribe...

20.10.2026 30

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Time to double the GST? The cost-of-living debate we need to have

Australia is now seeing perhaps the starkest example in recent history of how tax changes affect human behaviour and the economy as a whole. Subscribe...

20.10.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

America’s gun violence survives on myths, profit and political cowardice

America’s response to gun violence is built on myths about policing, deterrence and constitutional rights, while political leaders continue to avoid...

13.10.2026 40

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

America has a policing problem, and it's not because there are too many cops

Last week's depraved proposal to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of fatally shooting 13 unarmed US soldiers at the...

13.10.2026 40

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

America has a policing problem, and it's not because there are too many cops

Last week's depraved proposal to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of fatally shooting 13 unarmed US soldiers at the...

13.10.2026 90

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Want to weaken One Nation? Fix the temporary visa system

Voters are focused on housing, bills and strained services rather than immigration itself. But rapid population growth driven by temporary visas is...

06.10.2026 50

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Immigration is not on voters' minds, but its economic effects are

One of Australia's leading pollsters and repositories of knowledge about what and how Australians are thinking gave us some very encouraging...

06.10.2026 40

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Immigration is not on voters' minds, but its economic effects are

One of Australia's leading pollsters and repositories of knowledge about what and how Australians are thinking gave us some very encouraging...

06.10.2026 60

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

RBA punishing mortgage-holders won't work

Rate rises hit mortgage holders, first-home buyers and jobs, while doing nothing to fix many of the supply shocks driving prices higher. Governments...

01.10.2026 50

The New Daily

Crispin Hull

Interest rates: fighting inflation by punishing mortgage holders is not enough

Rate rises hit mortgage holders, first-home buyers and jobs, while doing nothing to fix many of the supply shocks driving prices higher. Governments...

29.09.2026 50

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Rate hikes hurt the wrong people. Here's what else the RBA could be doing

I had an economics teacher who once joked that he set the same exam questions year after year. It was not a problem, he said, "Because I just...

29.09.2026 40

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Rate hikes hurt the wrong people. Here's what else the RBA could be doing

I had an economics teacher who once joked that he set the same exam questions year after year. It was not a problem, he said, "Because I just...

29.09.2026 40

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Could a Europe-to-Asia alliance tackle autocracy and redraw the world trading map?

Canada’s proposed new relationship with the EU opens the door to a much bigger idea: a trade and cooperation bloc spanning Europe and the...

22.09.2026 50

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

How we can free ourselves from the Axis of Autocracy

The proposal that Canada could become an associate member of the European Union is of historic moment and something which Australia should take heed....

22.09.2026 60

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

How we can free ourselves from the Axis of Autocracy

The proposal that Canada could become an associate member of the European Union is of historic moment and something which Australia should take heed....

22.09.2026 40

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

One Nation's superannuation policy preys on desperate Australians

Here's an interesting figure: Australia's household debt (mortgages, credit cards, loans etc) is $3400 billion. Australia's total...

15.09.2026 50

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

One Nation's superannuation policy preys on desperate Australians

Here's an interesting figure: Australia's household debt (mortgages, credit cards, loans etc) is $3400 billion. Australia's total...

15.09.2026 40

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

There is one way Trump stands above the great leaders of history

US President Donald Trump fell for the observers' paradox when he posted his ratings recently of the leadership qualities past US presidents....

08.09.2026 70

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Trump ranks himself the greatest president. His record says he's the worst

Donald Trump rates himself America’s greatest president, but leadership is measured by judgment, responsibility and consequences, not self-regard....

08.09.2026 50

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Trump has failed every test required of a leader

US President Donald Trump fell for the observers' paradox when he posted his ratings recently of the leadership qualities past US presidents....

08.09.2026 60

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

WA by-election results diabolical for ALP

One Nation’s victories in WA and NSW tell us that Australia’s electoral landscape is shifting fast. Relying on One Nation to implode is not enough...

01.09.2026 40

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

WA by-election results diabolical for ALP

One Nation’s victories in WA and NSW tell us that Australia’s electoral landscape is shifting fast. Relying on One Nation to implode is not enough...

31.08.2026 60

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

If we voted today, Labor would get towelled up. And Labor can't see the peril it's in

Last Saturday's Western Australian byelection in the state seat of Secret Bay was worse than diabolical for Labor. Subscribe now for unlimited...

31.08.2026 50

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

If we voted today, Labor would get towelled up. And Labor can't see the peril it's in

Last Saturday's Western Australian byelection in the state seat of Secret Bay was worse than diabolical for Labor. Subscribe now for unlimited...

31.08.2026 50

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Banks claw back credit card rewards

Banks are clawing back rewards as new credit card fee rules threaten their profits, raising bigger questions about competition, cash and who...

31.08.2026 60

The New Daily

Crispin Hull

Banks claw back credit card rewards

Banks are clawing back rewards as new credit card fee rules threaten their profits, raising bigger questions about competition, cash and who...

25.08.2026 60

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

The quiet war on cash and why your rewards are about to dry up

Over the past week or so, most Australians would have received an email notice from their bank announcing "bigger", "better", or...

25.08.2026 50

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

The quiet war on cash and why your rewards are about to dry up

Over the past week or so, most Australians would have received an email notice from their bank announcing "bigger", "better", or...

25.08.2026 60

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Labor’s 28 per cent should spell danger. Instead, it could be enough to win

Labor’s primary vote has fallen to just 28 per cent as One Nation’s surge splits the right, yet the government remains on track to win the next...

18.08.2026 50

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

The current three-party split might be permanent

Another month of polling indicates that the new three-way split in Australian politics is permanent: a tad under a third of the first-preference vote...

18.08.2026 50

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

The current three-party split might be permanent

Another month of polling indicates that the new three-way split in Australian politics is permanent: a tad under a third of the first-preference vote...

18.08.2026 50

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

How I got the last $10m laugh on a rip-off artist who fleeced me

Usually there is enough folly and perfidy in Australian politics to fill many columns every week. This week, though, the story is one of a politician...

11.08.2026 50

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

How I got the last $10m laugh on a rip-off artist who fleeced me

Usually there is enough folly and perfidy in Australian politics to fill many columns every week. This week, though, the story is one of a politician...

11.08.2026 50

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

From subscription traps to corporate power: government can fight back

A long-running subscription rip-off ended with refunds and a $10 million penalty. More importantly, it showed what government can achieve when it...

11.08.2026 60

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

The lessons from 1914 and the great-power mistake we keep repeating

The build-up of deterrence, alliances and enemy thinking helped drive the catastrophe of 1914, and today’s great-power rivalry risks repeating the...

04.08.2026 70

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Stupid decisions led us to war over a century ago. We're on the verge of repeating them

On August 4, 112 years ago, stupid decisions by the leaders of great powers at the time - Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Russia -...

04.08.2026 60

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Stupid decisions led us to war over a century ago. We're on the verge of repeating them

On August 4, 112 years ago, stupid decisions by the leaders of great powers at the time - Britain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and Russia -...

04.08.2026 70

The Examiner

Crispin Hull