2+ hour, 30+ min ago   (1052+ words) Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (408+ words) The Albanese Labor government has announced that a digital duty of care will be imposed on social media companies to reduce online harm. The then Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland, in an address to the Sydney Institute in late 2024, foreshadowed the…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1081+ words) Secret Harbour was Labor’s not-so-secret nightmare: a seat it had held since 1989 fell in a landslide to One Nation, which had polled just 8.5 per cent there at the previous election. Pollsters said voters felt taken for granted and were worried…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (566+ words) After the summer Pauline Hanson returned from Britain with Nigel in her handbag, even though he declined to meet her. The Reform slogans came through customs intact: the ‘uniparty’, the betrayed voter, the insurgency coming to smash a failed political…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (761+ words) Of course, if you spend the whole year trying to bully reluctant leaders to undertake self-destructive actions – nothing like rising electricity prices and a few blackouts to keep everyone cheerful – hanging out with B1 and his zealous advisers at a resort…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (324+ words) Mike, still unpacking from Japan, will be travelling NSW and talking to the media before he has learnt the names, grudges and lay of the land in Cessnock. For a party that rails against remote elites imposing their choices upon…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (601+ words) In early August, the Minister for Social Services, Tanya Plibersek, provided a history lesson for ungrateful young Australians. ‘There’s never been a better time to be a first-time buyer,’ she said. Plibersek was spruiking the Albanese government’s 5 per cent deposit…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (522+ words) How exciting. Three weeks ago in these pages, I predicted that if Pauline Hanson sought special leave to appeal to the High Court in her case against Mehreen Faruqi, she would get it – and win. She has now applied for…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (885+ words) The fragile feelings and unconvincing campaign promises of politicians are under threat from … X’s Community Notes. We know because something hilarious happened last week. Our Dear Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, was deeply rattled by One Nation flipping the public outrage vibe…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (467+ words) It’s clearly One Nation’s determination to free the ship of state from the barnacles accumulated through decades of elite rule that is driving support for change. Claiming untruthfully against the evidence that it did not assist in the return of…...