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New Liberal federal president Tony Abbott has sought to rally the party at “this time of existential crisis”, labelling it “the patriot party” and declaring it must boost its membership. While not directly mentioning the threat from Pauline Hanson, One Nation’s surge was clearly in Abbott’s mind when he
The Northern Territory Police Force announced on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, that no charges will be pressed against the two officers who’d forcefully wrestled Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, to the floor of a supermarket in Mparntwe-Alice Springs and held him down in the prone position until he stopped breathing.
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Rarely does an epigraph accomplish its function so neatly as the one William Easterly has chosen to begin Violent Saviours, his audacious history of the West’s “we know best” attitude to the rest of the world, and its frequently catastrophic consequences for the people who live there. The quote is
The early departure of the federal corruption watchdog’s head provides an opportunity for a fresh start for the agency, the attorney-general says. National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Paul Brereton resigned on Monday, three years into his five-year term. The resignation followed numerous complaints into his ties to the military and his
In the same week the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo an international public health emergency, its Global Preparedness Monitoring Board found the risk of a major new pandemic has skyrocketed even as funds and measures to tackle a threat of this
A memoir by author Peter Wilson explores dyslexia, self-discovery and the many forms intelligence can take. read now...
Gough Whitlam quoted that passage from chapter six of Machiavelli’s famed but mostly misunderstood treatise on statecraft, The Prince, at the beginning of his sprawling 1985 account of his epic reformist government of 1972–75. As Anthony Albanese and his colleagues weather a headwind of cacophonous voices decrying the budget’s proposed
Analysts have tried to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s second term with countless, sometimes contradictory, labels. He’s isolationist and transactional. He’s a populist. Or, more recently, a neoconservative. One way to make sense of both him and the broader state of geopolitics at the moment is to
With Grouse House TV, Aunty Donna make a bid to usher in the future of independent Australian comedy
Picture the scene: you kick back to enjoy some silly sketch comedy after a long day. You’re instead invited to play a choose-your-own-adventure game. You make a choice. It’s the wrong one. Now you’re stuck watching an unskippable, 40-minute real-time walk around Melbourne. This is Bandersketch, the new interactive sketch
Getty ImagesThis year’s budget allocation for health echoes most past budgets. It implies there is significant investment and earmarks some specific areas that will receive additional support. But in reality, this is a cutback budget signalling continued austerity. The government is right that health receives the largest share of
Jonathan Chng/UnsplashYou probably have at least one “super fit” friend. Maybe they’re a marathon runner, a footy player or a keen hiker. To keep themselves healthy, they may stick to a strict exercise regimen and only eat certain foods. But in most cases, these people would likely struggle to play
Legislative reform is needed when paid political agitators profit from the exploitation of democratic institutions. read now...
New Liberal federal president Tony Abbott has sought to rally the party at “this time of existential crisis”, labelling it “the patriot party” and declaring it must boost its membership. While not directly mentioning the threat from Pauline Hanson, One Nation’s surge was clearly in Abbott’s mind when he
The Northern Territory Police Force announced on Tuesday, 26 May 2026, that no charges will be pressed against the two officers who’d forcefully wrestled Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man with disabilities, to the floor of a supermarket in Mparntwe-Alice Springs and held him down in the prone position until he stopped breathing.
This news was ...
Rarely does an epigraph accomplish its function so neatly as the one William Easterly has chosen to begin Violent Saviours, his audacious history of the West’s “we know best” attitude to the rest of the world, and its frequently catastrophic consequences for the people who live there. The quote is
The early departure of the federal corruption watchdog’s head provides an opportunity for a fresh start for the agency, the attorney-general says. National Anti-Corruption Commission chief Paul Brereton resigned on Monday, three years into his five-year term. The resignation followed numerous complaints into his ties to the military and his
In the same week the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo an international public health emergency, its Global Preparedness Monitoring Board found the risk of a major new pandemic has skyrocketed even as funds and measures to tackle a threat of this
A memoir by author Peter Wilson explores dyslexia, self-discovery and the many forms intelligence can take. read now...
Gough Whitlam quoted that passage from chapter six of Machiavelli’s famed but mostly misunderstood treatise on statecraft, The Prince, at the beginning of his sprawling 1985 account of his epic reformist government of 1972–75. As Anthony Albanese and his colleagues weather a headwind of cacophonous voices decrying the budget’s proposed
Analysts have tried to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s second term with countless, sometimes contradictory, labels. He’s isolationist and transactional. He’s a populist. Or, more recently, a neoconservative. One way to make sense of both him and the broader state of geopolitics at the moment is to
With Grouse House TV, Aunty Donna make a bid to usher in the future of independent Australian comedy
Picture the scene: you kick back to enjoy some silly sketch comedy after a long day. You’re instead invited to play a choose-your-own-adventure game. You make a choice. It’s the wrong one. Now you’re stuck watching an unskippable, 40-minute real-time walk around Melbourne. This is Bandersketch, the new interactive sketch
Getty ImagesThis year’s budget allocation for health echoes most past budgets. It implies there is significant investment and earmarks some specific areas that will receive additional support. But in reality, this is a cutback budget signalling continued austerity. The government is right that health receives the largest share of
Jonathan Chng/UnsplashYou probably have at least one “super fit” friend. Maybe they’re a marathon runner, a footy player or a keen hiker. To keep themselves healthy, they may stick to a strict exercise regimen and only eat certain foods. But in most cases, these people would likely struggle to play