by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 14, 2025 | Business, Opinion
When the stock market-listed mining company chaired by one of Australia’s most politically outspoken coal barons gets put into financial administration, you know there’s trouble in the world of the black stuff. That’s exactly what’s happened with Bowen Coking Coal...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Aug 11, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
We’re way past making excuses for one-time Labor wunderkind Mark Latham, self-styled as the ultimate outsider in Australian politics. He’s not even remotely a lovable rogue. Channelling Monty Python, he’s far beyond just being a very naughty boy. He’s not...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 15, 2025 | Free speech, Opinion, Politics
When the going gets tough, who you gonna call? Tony Burke, political hitman. The ALP operative is the pure distillation of politics, with a genius ability to argue that white is black if you look at it a certain way. And there he was yesterday, pressed into service...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 12, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Many Australians have already figured out that we’re being softened up politically for big increases in defence spending. But as defence hawks press for that and the US military launches an “America first”-inspired review of the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines pact,...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | May 28, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
A snapshot of the National Party’s 19 federal parliamentary members looks like a 1950s Australia, studded with names like McKenzie, Chester, McCormack and McDonald. It tells the story of a party that has largely said no to diversity. Leader David Littleproud...
