Australia has been downgraded in the annual corruption perceptions index (CPI) published by Transparency International. Australia has lost its top-10 position in Transparency International’s 2026 CPI and achieved a corruption perception score of 76 out of 100. This brings the country down from equal 10th place in 2025 to equal
Rumblings from the Liberal partyroom suggest Angus Taylor could quit the shadow frontbench today ahead of his anticipated tilt at the Liberal leadership, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog's tour marches
The New South Wales Community and Public Sector Union has hailed the delay of the highly controversial enforcement of the Premier’s Department’s new back-to-office mandate by Transport for New South Wales as a major win for members, revealing the concession came on the doorstep of a key industrial court decision.
Property owners who let dirt bikes create excessive noise on private land to the detriment of those living or working nearby could soon be hit with steep fines under a proposed new regulatory crackdown that aims to dampen one of the most complained-about forms of pollution in New South Wales.
The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has issued a reminder about the behaviour expected of staff, in line with relevant laws and the federal government’s commitment to combat antisemitism. This includes encouragement to escalate and report antisemitism, racism, or intolerance, and to seek support via EAP lines where appropriate. The
Public concern about trust in Australian institutions is not new, but it has been receiving renewed attention in recent years. A 2025 OECD report documents a long-term decline in institutional trust since the mid-2000s and adds its voice to the growing call to shift focus from simply measuring low public
For years, the true believers have shouted from the rooftops of social media, preaching a bitcoin gospel of decentralisation and ‘digital gold’.
But last week’s turmoil in the markets, which was nothing short of historic, has been followed by a deafening silence.
At the time of writing, bitcoin has ‘stabilised’ around USD $70,000 after plunging a ...
The most effective political leaders are semi-housetrained polecats, which is also a famous insult. You cannot lay a glove on them; if you do it is terribly painful, at least for those who are hostile. Most leadership then ends in failure, with leaders thrown out of office.
I am not sure how this reconciles with John Stuart Mill’s idea that good ...
The police role as a “thin blue line” between public order and chaos was tested in Sydney’s CBD on Monday night. Videos have captured the violent clashes between police and some of the thousands of protesters who gathered at the Town Hall to protest the presence of Israeli President
Lit in Colour, a campaign launched by Penguin and the Runnymede Trust to diversify English literature, has recently released its five-year progress report. ‘Diversity’ for this campaign doesn’t mean diversity of thought, style, genre, poetic form or historical period, however. It refers to promoting writers on the basis of their BAME (Black, Asian, and ...
Actors have been saying unscripted things again. Riz Ahmed is the star of a brand-new film version of Hamlet directed by Aneil Karia and set among the South Asian community in contemporary London. He told the BBC at the weekend that the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy is not actually about contemplating suicide at all, but about ‘resistance’. He adds ...
The federal Opposition is in dire straits. Sunday’s disastrous Newspoll had the Liberals on 15% primary vote, with the Nationals at 3% – well below One Nation on 27%. Despite the Coalition reuniting over the weekend, it’s yet to provide any answers about how it will win back key
Australia has been downgraded in the annual corruption perceptions index (CPI) published by Transparency International. Australia has lost its top-10 position in Transparency International’s 2026 CPI and achieved a corruption perception score of 76 out of 100. This brings the country down from equal 10th place in 2025 to equal
Rumblings from the Liberal partyroom suggest Angus Taylor could quit the shadow frontbench today ahead of his anticipated tilt at the Liberal leadership, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog's tour marches
The New South Wales Community and Public Sector Union has hailed the delay of the highly controversial enforcement of the Premier’s Department’s new back-to-office mandate by Transport for New South Wales as a major win for members, revealing the concession came on the doorstep of a key industrial court decision.
Property owners who let dirt bikes create excessive noise on private land to the detriment of those living or working nearby could soon be hit with steep fines under a proposed new regulatory crackdown that aims to dampen one of the most complained-about forms of pollution in New South Wales.
The Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) has issued a reminder about the behaviour expected of staff, in line with relevant laws and the federal government’s commitment to combat antisemitism. This includes encouragement to escalate and report antisemitism, racism, or intolerance, and to seek support via EAP lines where appropriate. The
Public concern about trust in Australian institutions is not new, but it has been receiving renewed attention in recent years. A 2025 OECD report documents a long-term decline in institutional trust since the mid-2000s and adds its voice to the growing call to shift focus from simply measuring low public
For years, the true believers have shouted from the rooftops of social media, preaching a bitcoin gospel of decentralisation and ‘digital gold’.
But last week’s turmoil in the markets, which was nothing short of historic, has been followed by a deafening silence.
At the time of writing, bitcoin has ‘stabilised’ around USD $70,000 after plunging a ...
The most effective political leaders are semi-housetrained polecats, which is also a famous insult. You cannot lay a glove on them; if you do it is terribly painful, at least for those who are hostile. Most leadership then ends in failure, with leaders thrown out of office.
I am not sure how this reconciles with John Stuart Mill’s idea that good ...
The police role as a “thin blue line” between public order and chaos was tested in Sydney’s CBD on Monday night. Videos have captured the violent clashes between police and some of the thousands of protesters who gathered at the Town Hall to protest the presence of Israeli President
Lit in Colour, a campaign launched by Penguin and the Runnymede Trust to diversify English literature, has recently released its five-year progress report. ‘Diversity’ for this campaign doesn’t mean diversity of thought, style, genre, poetic form or historical period, however. It refers to promoting writers on the basis of their BAME (Black, Asian, and ...
Actors have been saying unscripted things again. Riz Ahmed is the star of a brand-new film version of Hamlet directed by Aneil Karia and set among the South Asian community in contemporary London. He told the BBC at the weekend that the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy is not actually about contemplating suicide at all, but about ‘resistance’. He adds ...
The federal Opposition is in dire straits. Sunday’s disastrous Newspoll had the Liberals on 15% primary vote, with the Nationals at 3% – well below One Nation on 27%. Despite the Coalition reuniting over the weekend, it’s yet to provide any answers about how it will win back key
