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 DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 22, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
The federal Liberal Party is so diminished that it could hold its meetings in a small bus, with Sussan Ley at the steering wheel as Angus Taylor and the boys snigger up the back. Where are you taking us, Sussan? Next stop, a town called Oblivion. As the day dawned in...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jul 7, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
Whether it takes days, weeks or months to be formalised by the United Nations, Australia looks to be on track to win its bid to host next year’s global climate summit in partnership with Pacific Island nations. This leaves the Liberal-National opposition with nowhere...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 30, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
He verges on fictional James Bond good looks. Wealthy landed gentry upbringing. Exclusive private school boy. Rhodes scholar academic. Top management consultant, with McKinsey on his business bio. Accomplished barrister wife, with whom he shares four children....
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 19, 2025 | Environment, Opinion, Politics
It’s time to check in on the weird and wacky backwater of the Australian political scene, where Barnaby Joyce fulminates and forges his prescriptions for the nation’s future. If you aren’t a viewer of Sky News or of his regular Sunrise on Seven slot, you’re...