8+ hour, 31+ min ago   (887+ words) One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit? The Spectator Australia One Nation is here to stay … but where do they fit? The rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been meteoric. With the collapse in the…...

17+ hour, 38+ min ago   (1052+ words) Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the…...

22+ hour, 2+ min ago   (534+ words) This moment in Victoria’s history could not be more critical. With about 70 days until the most pivotal state election ever, no amount of ‘NFL hoopla’ can mask the underlying truth that Victoria is headed for the rubbish heap of history…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (408+ words) The Albanese Labor government has announced that a digital duty of care will be imposed on social media companies to reduce online harm. The then Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland, in an address to the Sydney Institute in late 2024, foreshadowed the…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (566+ words) After the summer Pauline Hanson returned from Britain with Nigel in her handbag, even though he declined to meet her. The Reform slogans came through customs intact: the ‘uniparty’, the betrayed voter, the insurgency coming to smash a failed political…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (288+ words) Both Hastie and Pickering come from an army background prior to entering politics, and are to be commended for their service to this nation. Both have families to think of. Both hold and present themselves well, as one would expect,…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (344+ words) All the everyday risks we’ve been regulating out of Australian life. In the Netherlands it’s even more pronounced. I remember seeing a mother with a couple of children on a tandem bike, making her way down one of the many…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (647+ words) Aaron Patrick spoke at the Gallipoli Memorial Club’s inaugural Lone Pine Dinner. At the event, he signed copies of his book on Australia’s war in Afghanistan, and in particular, accounts of Ben Robert-Smith’s actions that earned him the Victoria Cross....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (965+ words) Aussies of a certain vintage will remember this classic ad from the 1980s, my favourite decade. Yes, following the success of that brilliant campaign, it was inevitable that a new disparaging slang word entered the Aussie vernacular – Clayton’s. It means a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (456+ words) Construction company Bathla collapsed last week owing more than $3 billion, leaving more than 2,000 half-built homes in limbo and another 13,000 proposed dwellings that may never be built. Far from rushing in to build new dwellings to accommodate Albo’s migrant millions, the…...