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This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO number 2” bill. This gives our secret police increased powers to pull ordinary Australians off the streets, question and detain us secretly without reasonable cause, and deny us the right to speak about this state-sanctioned…

Those of you not into torturous, pantomime-level political inquisitions may not have been following recent events at the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, or as it’s more onomatopoeically known, ICAC. If you had, you might have heard that Sussan Ley, while leader of the Opposition on $442,643 a year of your money, drove from Canberra…

Of late, the ABC has been altering the way it sees the world around it. Bound by a national charter, but modified from within after years of ideological, technical, and operational transfer, the organisation is failing in its duty to inform Australians. This is occurring at a time of great uncertainty, when it is needed…

Fresh after the Labor National Conference, Federal Labor Senator Raff Ciccone takes a smiling picture in Washington, proud to announce his delegation participating in the 2026 Australian American Leadership Dialogue (AALD) in Trump’s America. Ciccone joins the defence junta of the bipartisan political class—a cohort of militaristic-minded MPs that function as the steam that moves…

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site of the Arrernte people called Kuyunba, the American military base Pine Gap gathers data that is used to subjugate millions of innocent, ordinary people across this world. Kuyunba still holds ancient rock art and even…

We cross this week to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion and other assorted grievances, but before we do, it’s important to note this is an inquiry the Albanese government were systematically bullied into in a coordinated campaign by the Israel lobby after the horrific Bondi massacres in late 2025. The Albanese government…

Distinguished academic and prominent global figure Iranian Professor Saied Mohamed Marandi appeared on ABC’s 7.30, where Sarah Ferguson — the national broadcaster’s most distinguished flagship interviewer — prepared to ask the tough questions she reserves for certain guests. The interview was an outright failure, and an example of the unique way Australian journalism interacts with…

Some (many) weeks in Australian politics are so repulsively stupid that resisting the urge to mentally check out before Monday lunchtime is a struggle of biblical proportions. From the moment the group chat shared the news this week’s Discourse™ would centre how “shaggable” the Prime Minister finds Kylie Minogue, his suspiciously electorally friendly aphrodisiacs (local…

Block three of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is wrapping up this week, zeroing in on online hate, social media platforms, and traditional media. The sessions have pivoted hard towards digital abuse, deepfakes, and supposed platform failures — as if the real emergency is not the continuing rivers of blood in Gaza,…

Where are the tornado warning sirens? The USA is rocketing towards becoming the authoritarian hellscape from which it has spent almost a century pretending to be the refuge. Citizens are being shot in the street. People in a book club are being sentenced to decades in prison for wrongthink. Trump is trying to push through…