We don’t need to talk about Kevin
‘The United States,’ opined former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd back in early 2021, ‘has been run by a village…
Hiding from Trump
There is something uniquely dispiriting about the Albanese government’s performance on the international stage. It is normal that different Australian…
Snubbed by reality
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese can hardly be surprised that President Donald Trump didn’t meet him at the G7 summit this…
The Productivity Pretender
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese graced the National Press Club this week for the first time since the election and expressed…
Celestial bodies
The position of two celestial bodies when their longitude differs by 180 degrees, especially in a configuration in which Earth…
The toxic topic
Within a few months it will be glaringly apparent to the Coalition that they could and should have fought the…
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Yes, it had to come to this. As this magazine has long argued, there is a deep structural faultline that…
Dear Sussan
Congratulations on your elevation to leadership of the Liberal party of Australia. It is a position of great honour, although…
Holy smoke!
What went wrong? This time a year ago, Peter Dutton and the Coalition were riding high in the polls, still…
Win or lose
By the time this magazine appears on the newsstands, the results of the Australian federal election will – or at…
Another dud debate
The third debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the man who doesn’t appear terribly hungry to take his job…
C’mon, Dutt Dutt!
The Coalition can still win. That is the lesson of recent elections in Australia (where the polls have frequently been…
The Dullists
Has Peter Dutton got what Paul Keating used to describe as ‘the mongrel’ in him? That was the question left…
Mandatory climate laws
In a must-read article this week, former Liberal party senator and senior advisor to John Howard, Michael Baume, identifies for…
Rooted in failure
Australia is rooted. That is the message from the Albanese government as it heads towards an election it thoroughly deserves…
Dutton’s referendum
Long-term readers of this magazine are familiar with a strange tingling sensation that frequently runs up and down the spine,…
Dutton must embrace Trump
Events over the past few days have shown that the Coalition’s flawed strategy of keeping the Trump administration at arm’s…
Storms ahead
Unless the predicted Queensland cyclone skewers his plans, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected this weekend to call a federal…
Grand Primary
No democratic process is perfect. Going back to the ancient Greeks, through the Magna Carta to the US civil war,…
Bullock buckles
This week’s fraudulent interest rate cut is as good a portent as any for what to expect in the forthcoming…
Hell breaks loose
The deadline imposed by President Donald Trump, and endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for the release of all hostages…
Bowen exposed
At the Grammy Awards last week, the celebrity rapper Kanye West paraded his Australian wife Bianca Censori along the red…
The final insult
We all have close friends with whom we occasionally disagree, amicably. And we have friends whom we inadvertently offend from…
Alarming antisemitism
As the country prepares for Australia Day, many Australians fear what is happening to our tolerant society. It has taken…
Game on
Australians traditionally consider the country to be on holiday until Australia Day, even if they have to work, but this…
