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Australians want politics out of sport

Australians want politics out of sport

Australian rules football is like a religion in Victoria. The buzz that the city experiences in March when footy returns to the MCG, and the last week of September in the lead-up to the Grand Final reminds us of a pre-Covid Melbourne. People are out and about in their team colours, revelling in the greatest game on Earth. It acts, as any sport does, as ...
The great Australian lock-out

The great Australian lock-out

The current rental crisis is frequently dismissed as a simple failure of the construction industry to ‘build more’. It is not. It is the Labor government obviously deciding that large-scale immigration will lock in a Labor vote. Recent analysis by Leith van Onselen (March 2026) reveals a troubling reality. Australia has, in fact, just completed its ...

Australians want politics out of sport

Australians want politics out of sport
Australian rules football is like a religion in Victoria. The buzz that the city experiences in March when footy returns to the MCG, and the last week of September in the lead-up to the Grand Final reminds us of a pre-Covid Melbourne. People are out and about in their team colours, revelling in the greatest game on Earth. It acts, as any sport does, as ...

The great Australian lock-out

The great Australian lock-out
The current rental crisis is frequently dismissed as a simple failure of the construction industry to ‘build more’. It is not. It is the Labor government obviously deciding that large-scale immigration will lock in a Labor vote. Recent analysis by Leith van Onselen (March 2026) reveals a troubling reality. Australia has, in fact, just completed its ...