With Elizabeth Watson-Brown retaining her seat in Ryan (QLD), the Greens are down to a single rep in the lower house, losing three, including party leader Adam Bandt. Part Two of the election analysis by Stuart McCarthy. In part one, we set the scene for the LNP’s unravelling as “the
One of the Albanese government’s oddest ventures was joining with Queensland to bet $1 billion on a roughy running in the quantum computing stakes. Michael Pascoe wonders if it could be scratched. All governments have the occasional rush of blood to the head and pour serious money into dubious projects.
If the national result for the Coalition was a bloodbath, the electorate of Ryan was the crime scene. Stuart McCarthy on the veterans vote and how the Liberals imploded in the Federal Election. Part 1. The numbers, as they say, never lie. Last Saturday’s numbers were swift, and they were
The Liberal Party ran a disastrous campaign in electorates with large Chinese-Australian populations, with swings against the Liberals far greater than the national average. Marcus Reubenstein reports. The Perth seat of Tangney, Sydney metropolitan seats of Reid and Bennelong, as well as Chisholm in Melbourne, were all comfortably retained by
The location of Australia’s nuclear submarine bases on the East Coast is so sensitive that the Defence Department withheld a FOI response until 24 hours after the polls closed. Rex Patrick reports. Documents released to me last Sunday, based on an FOI request, were due on March 15, just before
Submissions to the NSW antisemitism inquiry show large cohorts of Jewish people reject the attempts at conflating Zionism with Judaism and criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Emma Thomas reports. Coming out of NSW’s ‘summer of racism’, the inquiry seeks to investigate and combat an “alarming rise in antisemitism, including record
The first report since the Safeguard Mechanism demonstrates the fundamental flaws in a system that may reduce emissions overall, but is certain to increase the profits of some emitters. Kim Wingerei reports. The Clean Energy Regulator’s report on Australia’s biggest polluters covers the 2023-24 financial year, and shows that emissions
The Federal Court defamation case against Michael West Media has been dropped, but so has the regulator’s investigation into the lawyers’ conduct. Michael West reports on a fee-fest. Our latest trial is over. The defamation case against us has been dropped. Yet the investigation into the conduct of the lawyers
Expecting a “courageous” Anthony Albanese (as Sir Humphrey Appleby might say) following Labor’s spectacular re-election on Saturday? Andrew Gardiner reports the realities of politics dictate we rein in those expectations. Since 2023, some very telling (and, for the most part, uncontested) stories have circulated about one of the men pivotal
The Labor party added at least ten more seats to return with a clear majority, while a leaderless LNP will be licking their wounds and wondering where to from here. Kim Wingerei reports. The headlines will be about a Labor landslide and Peter Dutton losing his seat. The Greens, too,
Something very fishy is going on in relation to the seat of Braddon in Tasmania. And Freedom of Information is helping shine a light on things. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. EPBC Act changes On Tuesday this week I participated in the (relatively) polite pre-election debate between myself, Labor’s Senator
An 11th-hour Election 2025 blitzkrieg claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.” Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon investigate the Dark Money election. Minority Impact Coalition is a shadowy organisation which appeared on Australia’s political landscape in February of
With Elizabeth Watson-Brown retaining her seat in Ryan (QLD), the Greens are down to a single rep in the lower house, losing three, including party leader Adam Bandt. Part Two of the election analysis by Stuart McCarthy. In part one, we set the scene for the LNP’s unravelling as “the
One of the Albanese government’s oddest ventures was joining with Queensland to bet $1 billion on a roughy running in the quantum computing stakes. Michael Pascoe wonders if it could be scratched. All governments have the occasional rush of blood to the head and pour serious money into dubious projects.
If the national result for the Coalition was a bloodbath, the electorate of Ryan was the crime scene. Stuart McCarthy on the veterans vote and how the Liberals imploded in the Federal Election. Part 1. The numbers, as they say, never lie. Last Saturday’s numbers were swift, and they were
The Liberal Party ran a disastrous campaign in electorates with large Chinese-Australian populations, with swings against the Liberals far greater than the national average. Marcus Reubenstein reports. The Perth seat of Tangney, Sydney metropolitan seats of Reid and Bennelong, as well as Chisholm in Melbourne, were all comfortably retained by
The location of Australia’s nuclear submarine bases on the East Coast is so sensitive that the Defence Department withheld a FOI response until 24 hours after the polls closed. Rex Patrick reports. Documents released to me last Sunday, based on an FOI request, were due on March 15, just before
Submissions to the NSW antisemitism inquiry show large cohorts of Jewish people reject the attempts at conflating Zionism with Judaism and criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Emma Thomas reports. Coming out of NSW’s ‘summer of racism’, the inquiry seeks to investigate and combat an “alarming rise in antisemitism, including record
The first report since the Safeguard Mechanism demonstrates the fundamental flaws in a system that may reduce emissions overall, but is certain to increase the profits of some emitters. Kim Wingerei reports. The Clean Energy Regulator’s report on Australia’s biggest polluters covers the 2023-24 financial year, and shows that emissions
The Federal Court defamation case against Michael West Media has been dropped, but so has the regulator’s investigation into the lawyers’ conduct. Michael West reports on a fee-fest. Our latest trial is over. The defamation case against us has been dropped. Yet the investigation into the conduct of the lawyers
Expecting a “courageous” Anthony Albanese (as Sir Humphrey Appleby might say) following Labor’s spectacular re-election on Saturday? Andrew Gardiner reports the realities of politics dictate we rein in those expectations. Since 2023, some very telling (and, for the most part, uncontested) stories have circulated about one of the men pivotal
The Labor party added at least ten more seats to return with a clear majority, while a leaderless LNP will be licking their wounds and wondering where to from here. Kim Wingerei reports. The headlines will be about a Labor landslide and Peter Dutton losing his seat. The Greens, too,
Something very fishy is going on in relation to the seat of Braddon in Tasmania. And Freedom of Information is helping shine a light on things. Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick reports. EPBC Act changes On Tuesday this week I participated in the (relatively) polite pre-election debate between myself, Labor’s Senator
An 11th-hour Election 2025 blitzkrieg claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.” Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon investigate the Dark Money election. Minority Impact Coalition is a shadowy organisation which appeared on Australia’s political landscape in February of
