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The Year in Review: The paradox of Labor’s massive victory
The Year in Review: The collapse of the fourth estate
The Year in Review: AUKUS and the politics of paranoia
The Long-Read Essay: Albanese On Trial
Democracy, Power and Australia at the Crossroads
The Year in Review: The decay and theatre of the US–Australia alliance
The Year in Review: Australia’s silence, complicity and the politics of avoidance
The Year in Review: Foreign affairs, cancel culture and how Labor governs
The Year in Review: A vote for stability in a troubled world
The Year in Review: Did 2025 finally see the end of the culture wars?
The Year in Review: Culture wars, a big Labor win and the blind spot on Gaza
Running out of patience with Labor’s caution
Seat Warmers: What Is Labor Actually For?
The Gaza plan rewards Israel and punishes the victims
Blaming the migrant: Inside the Liberal Party’s new strategy
Retail politics is killing the Liberal Party and is it goodbye Gaza?
The continuing crisis in the Liberal Party
The Protection of Neo-Nazis in Sydney
The impossible candidate: Whitlam would struggle in today’s Labor Party
The people’s victory: What Mamdani’s win really means
The War on Dissent and Socialism USA
Criminalising dissent in the Sydney police state
The big betrayal of the environment
The Great Environmental Backflip and the Joy Division
Albanese’s diplomatic success in the US but what’s the real cost?
Journalism, fear and the price of obedience
Alliance Games and the Price of Truth
The dirty game: Sportswashing and corruption in politics
Labor’s retreat on superannuation and the fear of its own shadow
A Super Backdown and the Politics of Retreat
The paralysis in Australia’s communications portfolio
The mirage of peace: Will Israel fool the world yet again?
Cancelling Press Freedoms: Hedges and the Hypocrisy of Australian Media
The Liberal Party’s collapse and the Ley–Hastie syndrome
The National Press Club shoots the messenger
The Slow Road to Nowhere: Albanese and the Politics of Caution
The grand illusion of a peace plan
The signs of a US empire in decay
Silencing the panel: How a children’s hospital folded to extremism
The cascading danger of climate change
Meanjin: A legacy and a lamentable closure
The Politics of Denial: Australia’s Reality Check
Manufacturing the fear of China
On the frontlines of the Occupied Territories of Bondi Beach
The China Syndrome and the Big Liberal Split
The quiet erosion of transparency in Australia
From Knesset to Council Chambers: Think global, influence local
The White Shade of Fascism: Inside Australia’s Far-Right Protests
A nation divided by the white nostalgia that never was
The sinking credibility of ASIO
The Iran Ultimatum, A House Of Cards and Climate Chaos
The genocide is being televised. What will it take to stop it?
Netanyahu’s instability as Australia starts to act on Palestine
Reform, Resistance and Netanyahu’s Rant
When journalism becomes public relations
A state of Palestine and the price of fearless journalism
The promised land: The long road to Palestinian statehood
Killing journalists won’t stop Palestinian statehood
A witness to genocide: Gaza and the rising demands for Palestinian recognition
Australia’s blind leap into the AUKUS abyss
Politics, Palestine and the continuing AUKUS mess
Albanese and Wong are on the wrong side of history
A Year of Delivery and Censuring Gaza
The irrational fear of China and the imaginary crisis
China, Censorship and the Great Australian Housing Mirage
How neoliberalism betrayed the children of Australia
The Segal report, free speech and the politics of fear
Criminalising Dissent and the True Public Cost of Privatisation
The criminalisation of protest in NSW
The short journey from principle to pragmatic: whatever happened to Penny Wong?
The obsession of a date with Trump and more police brutality in NSW
The End Of The Rules Based International Order
The real agenda behind the bombing of Iran
American Fascisti: When will we recognise the end of empire?
The ghost of Morrison, Fascism USA, and political football in Tasmania
How fear of China and American pressure are reshaping Australia’s defence
The honours system or a system in dishonour?
The Gaslit Nation and Sending Rockets To China
The Labor government’s quiet betrayal of the Commonwealth
Australia’s shift on Israel: Too little, too late?
A Coalition meltdown, Labor’s big test, and a new era for Australia–Palestine politics
The fight for fairness: Reforming superannuation in Australia
The silence and cowardice on Gaza continues from the federal government
Breaking up is hard to do: the end of the Coalition
The leadership challenge: A new era has begun but who’s ready to lead?
A new direction for the Australian Greens
The collapse of a party: what’s next for the Liberal Party?
A victory beyond expectation: Labor’s biggest triumph
A historic Labor victory and a devastating Liberal loss
Will the ghosts of 2019 return to haunt the 2025 election?
The Final Week: Dutton’s collapse, Albanese’s edge and Labor to win
A manufactured crisis: how cost of living fear is shaped for political gain
A strange, disjointed week in a campaign slipping away
After four weeks of the campaign: Is it all over?
Election promises and empty houses: The fiction of fixing Australia’s housing crisis
A masterclass in political failure
Loose units and losing momentum: Dutton’s campaign continues to go downhill
The silence of the ballot box: ignoring Gaza could cost Labor seats
How Dutton’s campaign fell apart
Leaks, lies and sabotage: The Coalition’s second-week election meltdown
Manufacturing the enemy: the election fear and paranoia circus act
Dutton’s disastrous start to the campaign
The Week 1 Report and the campaign to get Dutton out of Dickson
The first impressions: Labor is getting momentum and a shaky start for the Coalition
The federal election campaign: what are we likely to see?
It’s on: the 2025 election preview and Budget analysis
The Budget myth: How spin, amnesia and outrage skew the debate
Housing with Purple Pingers and an election on the horizon
The diary of Dutton’s disaster: How a cyclone exposed a leadership crisis
Manufacturing fear: Fake terror as a political weapon
WA Votes and Dutton unravelling
The economy is improving but can Labor sell the good news?
The cracks in the empire: America’s allies are drifting away
The economic recovery, US alliance tensions, and News Corp exposed
The return of the spectacle and idiot kings of politics
Australia needs to shift away from Trump’s unstable America
Australia’s poll frenzy: Don’t believe the pro-Dutton spin
Manufacturing outrage: The media’s alliance with Zionist provocateurs
We really need to talk about Zionism
Why does Australia keep failing to Close the Gap?
Albanese’s gamble on US tariffs
Managing Trump, not Closing the Gap, dirty election deals
ABC sacking exposes the actions of the Israel lobby
The ABC of Peter Dutton and the sacking of a journalist
The descent into Trumpism and the failure of the left to fight back
The chaos, corruption and unravelling of an American democracy
Australia’s culture wars, Trump’s mayhem, and a fragile ceasefire
Unhappy Australia Day and the distractions blocking true Reconciliation
Ceasefire in Palestine: Exposing injustice, global failures, and the uncertain road ahead
2025 election campaign set to be Australia’s dirtiest and most divisive