This Month
- Opinion
- Immigration
Politicians don’t want migrants but they do need workers
Neither major party has managed immigration well. That has not stopped Peter Dutton from making an election issue out of it.
- Laura Tingle
Macquarie slumps; Trump’s dubious ‘secrets’; 10 Melbourne legends
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Hanson racially vilified senator in ‘angry personal attack’: judge
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson racially vilified Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi in a tweet telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan”, the Federal Court has ruled.
- Gus McCubbing
July
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
It’s not just Labor that let the CFMEU off the leash
Jacqui Lambie, Pauline Hanson and some independents have played a role in enabling the militant union.
- Phillip Coorey
Senators demand Cbus cut ties with CFMEU-appointed directors
There are currently three CFMEU-appointed directors on the super fund’s board.
- Hannah Wootton
June
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Criticism of ‘stingy’ Baby Boomers misses the point
Readers’ letters on generational attacks; the “war” between banks and mortgage brokers; robots and the Great Barrier Reef; Grant Hackett’s leadership; and Pauline Hanson’s silence.
May
- Opinion
- Federal budget
The Coalition swings back to the immigration playbook
The irony is that Peter Dutton of all people should understand how complicated migration numbers really are.
- Laura Tingle
Judge retires to consider if Pauline Hanson is a racist
After a bitterly fought trial, a judge has retired to consider whether Pauline Hanson made a racial slur when telling a Muslim senator to go back to Pakistan.
- Miklos Bolza
April
A judge may decide if Pauline Hanson is a white supremacist
The far-right senator’s career of racial commentary is on trial in the Federal Court.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- Social media
Surge of violence tests policy tolerance of social media
The Coalition in particular has to ask tricky questions of when enough is enough on social media platforms.
- Laura Tingle
Agents orange: inside parliament’s battle of the hall passes
Crossbenchers are the focus of everyone with a stake in contentious legislation. No wonder David Pocock has had enough.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
March
- Analysis
- ASEAN
Sense of urgency as Australia finds its true international identity
There is a meaning to be extracted from the ASEAN summit for Australia’s international identity.
- James Curran
Peter Dutton’s secret FIFO trip
The opposition leader went on an undisclosed trip to Perth last week, attending Gina Rinehart’s birthday party for less than an hour.
- Mark Di Stefano
February
‘I’ve worn his shoes’: Hanson introduces her latest recruit
The One Nation leader believes new West Australian firearms reforms and resentment over the COVID-19 response will spark her party’s west coast revival.
- Tom Rabe
- Opinion
- Private schools
Working women swing to Labor – and to private schools
As soon as families can afford it, they have been switching to independent schools. No amount of public money is likely to reverse that soon.
- John Black
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
One Nation pales in comparison with vicious and evil Greens
Never has a political party so racist, confrontational and divisive been elected to the Australian parliament.
- Alexander Downer
January
- Analysis
- Australia Day
Australia Day has always been controversial
It’s nothing new for the national holiday to be plagued by debates over its meaning and significance. Indeed, that’s become part and parcel of the day itself.
- Updated
- James Curran
Dutton accused of stoking culture wars with Woolies boycott call
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has called on consumers to boycott Woolworths after the supermarket chain decided to stop selling Australia Day-themed merchandise.
- Updated
- Lois Maskiell and Ronald Mizen
November 2023
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Albanese’s pressing task to hold us together in a fractured age
The prime minister faces growing currents of economic and social disaffection. But is he up to the task of navigating a way through?
- James Curran
Gina Rinehart handholds Peter Dutton at her neon bush doof
The opposition leader was the star guest alongside Australia’s richest woman at Vegas in the Pilbara.
- Mark Di Stefano