by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 29, 2025 | Opinion, The far right
Anti-immigration fanatics, including neo-Nazis and white nationalists, prepare to “March for Australia” around the country this weekend. The pro-gun lobby celebrates a comeback for firearms, nearly three decades after the Port Arthur mass shooting prompted a national...
by Nicole Chvastek | Aug 28, 2025 | Justice, Opinion
In a world where there is no nuance, no shades of grey, where angry logic lives in echo chambers of prejudice, the news that rape survivor Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay her former boss, Linda Reynolds, a hefty penalty for a defamation may tempt some to...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Aug 27, 2025 | Media, Opinion
Who the heck advised Benjamin Netanyahu to launch his incendiary attacks on Anthony Albanese as a “weak” politician who had “abandoned” Australia’s Jews? One adviser, it turns out, is Sky News presenter Sharri Markson, who last week brought us an exclusive...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 26, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Where’s Bill Shakespeare when you have a political tragedy with high-comedic elements? The lead character, the Nationals’ much-storied backbencher Barnaby Joyce MP, once Australia’s deputy prime minister, is the political prince of New England, a northern NSW...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 25, 2025 | Opinion, Religion
Surely it’s political dynamite to profess that Christian-Jewish origin stories bestow a shared righteousness on nations — unity from which equally monotheistic Muslims and diverse other believers and non-believers are excluded. This “Judeo-Christian tradition”,...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 22, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Far from crawling back under their rocks after a humiliating repudiation just three months ago, ultra-conservatives are doubling down on their fact-defying mission to kill Australia’s net-zero climate action. But a Senate inquiry with the power to compel witnesses is...
