The anti-Semitic violence that has marred Australian life since Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 2023 highlights the collapse of the multicultural project the Whitlam government launched five decades ago.
Published in 1964 and serialised in The Australian, the impact of The Lucky Country was immediate and all-pervasive. Donald Horne declared that ordinary Australian people were not the problem: the elites were. Today that seems truer than ever before.
Penny Wong praises Bob Hawke’s memory – but her words bury him, along with the good he did.
Labor scrapped its traditional strength, development, for debt. Can David Crisafulli turn Queensland’s fortunes around?
Victoria’s per capita public debt now stands at $28,000 per man, woman and child – 40 per cent higher than that of the other major states. But the state’s looming fiscal disaster is merely one symptom of a state in much broader disarray.
Let’s face it: 1973 and 1974, not 1788, better explains this long-scale traumatic hurt and human damage to Aboriginal Australia.
Rupert Murdoch’s first national daily upholds a time-honoured mission even as it meets modern challenges.
The strength of our democracy relies on informed citizens, but a flawed draft history curriculum, if accepted, will put that at risk.
As the centre of electoral gravity shifts for the Coalition, one thing stands out: the good old bankable blue-ribbon Liberal heartland is dead.
Tim Gurner’s frustration has a long pedigree in Australian history. It goes back to the first generation of bosses tearing their hair out over slack, idle convicts.
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