While Australians woke to the fifth interest rate rise of 2026 and mortgage repayments approaching levels last seen under Paul Keating, the Prime Minister was in the Caribbean boarding a billionaire’s low-carbon vessel with King Charles. The optics were as… Continue Reading →
Just weeks before independent MP Helen Haines was allegedly deliberately rammed twice by a vehicle outside her Wangaratta office, resulting in the amputation of both legs and leaving her in critical condition, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office circulated a five-page… Continue Reading →
Helen Haines, the independent member for Indi, remains in critical condition after a man deliberately drove a Toyota LandCruiser into her outside her Wangaratta electorate office. She has lost both legs. Police have charged 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, a local with… Continue Reading →
Fiji for him. The power bill for everyone else. The man who promised cheaper power is in Fiji. The woman who never promised anything of the sort is packing halls in Victoria. Between those two facts sits the ugliest week… Continue Reading →
Drive past almost any major roadworks site in Australia and the picture is the same. High-vis vests, orange cones, and young women in hard hats twirling the red-and-white stop/slow bats that have earned them the name lollipop ladies. Some are… Continue Reading →
The Australian Liberal Party is not in trouble. It is finished. Their demise, years in the making, has been well earned. For international readers, in the Upside Down World known as Australia, the Liberal Party are the nation’s conservatives. Repeated… Continue Reading →
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra One Nation’s smashing victory in Farrer fires up the insurgent party, and casts fresh doubts over the future of the Liberal Party. The result could not be a more devastating rebuff for Liberal leader Angus… Continue Reading →
Benjamin Moffitt, Australian Catholic University. Many commentators tipped Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to perform well this election by scooping up the “freedom” and anti-vax vote from voters angry about how the pandemic was… Continue Reading →
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