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Nick Cater is senior fellow of the Menzies Research Centre and a columnist with The Australian. He is a former editor of The Weekend Australian and a former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He is author of The Lucky Culture published by Harper Collins.

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Opposition leader Anthony Albanese (back) and Labour candidate for Higgins Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah arrive at a Polling station during election day in Carnegie, Melbourne, Australia on May 21, 2022. - Polls opened in Australia's federal election May 21, 2022 , with Prime Minister Scott Morrison fighting for another three-year term that would extend a decade of conservative rule. (Photo by Wendell Teodoro / AFP)

Labor should heed voices of the marginalised

Labor would be making a big mistake if it were to dismiss the referendum result as misinformed. It would deprive the party of a window on to parts of the country it barely understands.

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Make no mistake, the No win was an act of insurrection

Australians outside the Tesla zone have told the elite they’ve had enough of the national guilt trip. They’re sick of the self-flagellating speeches, apologies, welcome and all the other performances.

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10-10-2023 - Prime minister Anthony Albanese at Uluru. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

PM’s social justice venture found to be sorely lacking

Anthony Albanese’s 11th-hour attempt to water down the significance of the voice sits awkwardly with his expansive rhetoric at the Garma Festival 14 months ago.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 7, 2023: Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek and her parliamentary colleagues celebrate Threatened Species Day by meeting a range of threatened and native species including Tasmanian devil joeys, children's python and south-eastern glossy black cockatoo at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor falls for koala hypocrisy in renewables crusade

The blatant double standards in the application of land clearance rules between agriculture and mining on the one hand and renewable energy on the other is fuelling community anger.

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Daniel Andrews resigned as Victorian premier last week, leaving a legacy far beyond lockdowns.

Voluntary death and a trans Trojan horse: Andrews’ other wins

If the boffins in the Wuhan lab engineered Covid-19 to suit a particular kind of leader, Daniel Andrews would have been the one they had in mind.

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FILE - In this Jan 23, 2008 file photo, a computer user is silhouetted with a row of computer monitors at an Internet cafe in Shenyang, in northern China's Liaoning province. Word leaked out slowly, spread by tech-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn is now openly available in China. Is the new access to online pornography a policy change or a trap? It throws into sharp relief what many see as the main mission of China's aggressive Internet censorship: blocking content that might challenge the political authority of the communist government. (AP Photo/File) **CHINA OUT **

Covid probe must seek to expose power of expert class

The pandemic inquiry’s success will be judged by whether it reduces the power of government agencies to curtail the behaviour of the many in response to the assumed superior wisdom of the few.

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Queensland Seafood Industry Association rally against the gillnet ban outside Parliament House in Brisbane on August 22, 2023. Photo: David Bobbermen

Fairness slips through ALP’s gillnet policy

Gillnet fishing was banned at the insistence of a supranational organisation without any discussion in parliament or consultation with the industry.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. 22nd AUGUST 2023. PM Anthony Albanese holds a press conference for The Voice referendum at the Sydney Opera House. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Sam Ruttyn

Economy can’t thrive while PM rules by vibe

As the halfway point in Anthony Albanese’s first term approaches, it’s increasingly clear that this government is long on vibe but short on a plan to fix the deteriorating economy.

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PERTH , AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 30 , 2023 Boao Forum for Asia Agenda Fortescue boss Andrew (Twiggy) Forrest makes a passionate speech about climate change. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Sharon Smith

Forrest’s green hydrogen dream doesn’t hold water

Few in the cosily woke world of corporate investment have been prepared to call out Andrew Forrest’s reckless bet on his ‘miracle molecule’.

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Justin Mohamed the Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People pictured at the Geelong waterfront. Picture: Stephen Harman

First Nations ambassador a voice from elite’s utopian vision

Old ambassadorial postings were made to real places in the interest of promoting Australia’s national interest, not the narrow agenda of the anointed.

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