Anthony Albanese’s decision to spend $4.3 million on a Central Coast home for him and his future wife has blown up onto the clifftop property with cyclonic ferocity. But is it a confected and hypocritical outrage?
Albo’s Retreat: not the getaway he hoped for
Anthony Albanese’s decision to spend $4.3 million on a Central Coast home for him and his future wife has blown up onto the clifftop property with cyclonic ferocity. But is it a confected and hypocritical outrage?
The view from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's Copacabana house.
Albo’s Retreat: not the getaway he hoped for
Anthony Albanese’s decision to spend $4.3 million on a Central Coast home for him and his future wife has blown up onto the clifftop property with cyclonic ferocity. But is it a confected and hypocritical outrage?
LNP flirts with loony far-right sovereign risk
As anti-immigrant zealots plot the weekend’s national marches and the pro-gun lobby rejoices in the boom in guns in the country, right-wing MPs should start worrying.
Brittany Higgins, courage personified
She was the traumatised victim of rape, and then her character and integrity were raped as well. But she has shown she has guts and immense inner strength.
Mark Sharri’s words: Bibi/Churchill peas in a pod
The Sky News presenter’s ‘interview’ with Israel’s prime minister — a ‘wartime leader’ she considers of the same calibre as Winston Churchill — was pilloried as ‘not journalism’.
Labor rejoices in the Barnaby rubble of net zero
The Nats MP’s anti-climate action dictums describe impoverished small businesses and people living in their cars but not the fires and floods devastating regional Australia.
God giveth and Judeo-Christianity taketh away
As outraged and heartbroken Australians marched around Australia at the weekend, just whose ‘values’ are propelling the Israel-Hamas humanitarian nightmare in Gaza?
Advance warfare faces defeat in Greens skirmish
A Senate inquiry will be out for blood as it seeks climate and energy truth, a subject often misinformed by far-right anti-net zero, anti-renewables rabble rousers.
Your take on why America is so dumb
Yesterday we asked for your thoughts on why America is so dumb. The question triggered a huge response with your observations ranging from the poetic to the acerbic. From 5,000 words of argumentation five main themes emerged.
The sinking feeling of AUKUS three years on
How rewarding it’s been to hear from Alexander Downer, Australia’s longest-serving foreign minister as he has weighed into the debate about the AUKUS pact, following a fresh round of criticism from old Labor luminaries.
Hard heads, warm hearts, blind eyes
With its paltry nod to frontline and legal services, this budget has failed the most vulnerable
The crisis colony
A nation struck down by social, economic and environmental crises deserves better solutions than Labor’s “sensible” budget
Climate control
Labor’s budget delivers ambitious support for Australia’s decarbonising future but the Future Gas Strategy looms large
Budgeting for a baby
In 2024, being a good parent begins with a decision on whether it’s safe and fair to bring a child into the world at all
Gaslit future
When the Coalition was removed in the 2022 “Climate Election”, Australians thought they had voted out the gas-led recovery
Building expectations
Labor’s manufacturing plan gives Albanese a new story to tell, while speaking to the old idea of nation-building
The young and the assetless
Two very different public figures are pointing to the serious frustration being felt by young Australians
Super vs surplus
It seems women’s equality will have to wait a little longer, presumably for the sake of the surplus
Housing on the hill
How can we agree on the way out of the housing crisis when we can’t agree that housing is a public good?
False premises
If amending the Stage Three tax cuts was the ‘right thing to do’, why doesn’t the same go for other abandoned Labor reforms?
War, what is it good for?
The lack of transparency on defence spending is indefensible when we’re talking about billions of dollars
Taxing times
When is the government going to take on the kind of systemic tax reform that literally everyone knows is needed?
Let’s talk about tax, baby
Is the nation mature enough for a serious conversation about tax reform?
A cut above the rest?
The Coalition wants to have its tax cut and eat it too
