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EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN - AUGUST 07: Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds a campaign rally with her running mate Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on August 7, 2024 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Later today they are scheduled to host a rally in Michigan. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

This is the most volatile election in living memory

On US political shows, talking heads have become shouting heads. It might be time to reprise Henry Kissinger’s words about the Iraq-Iran war: it’s too bad both sides can’t lose.

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VARIOUS CITIES, AUSTRALIA - MAY 26: Chair of Football AustraliaÃ¢â¬â¢s National Indigenous Advisory Committee Jade North, Mal Meninga and Jamie Pittman speak on stage during a media opportunity with Australian sports governing body representatives who will support the Voice, at North Sydney Oval on May 26, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

Sceptical public are pulling the plug on corporate virtue-signalling

Slowly, corporate executives appear to be learning that pursuing a political agenda drives down shareholder value, and possibly even drives them out of their jobs.

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CANBERRA, Australia, NewsWire Photos. May 30, 2024: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Managing director, David Anderson appears before Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Rules are clear: park your opinions or leave Aunty

Laura Tingle’s tirade is another example of how the ABC fails in a bargain with taxpayers.

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Jerry Seinfeld for Inquirer - ready

Stupid white men: the last group we can still make fun of

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is right; the moral terrorism of the hard left is no laughing matter.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 8, 1987 US President Ronald Reagan (R) chats with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during welcoming ceremonies at the White House on the first day of their disarmament summit. - The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, died on August 30, 2022 at the age of 91 in Russia, said a hospital quoted by Russian news agencies. (Photo by MIKE SARGENT / AFP)

The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake

Here we are, facing the prospect of a frozen conflict, one that was entirely avoidable if Washington and the West had properly understood Russian strategic sensibilities going back to the 1990s.

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TOPSHOT - Protesters jump on a street sign near a burning barricade during a demonstration against the death of George Floyd near the White House on May 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. - Thousands of National Guard troops patrolled major US cities after five consecutive nights of protests over racism and police brutality that boiled over into arson and looting, sending shock waves through the country. The death Monday of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis ignited this latest wave of outrage in the US over law enforcement's repeated use of lethal force against African Americans -- this one like others before captured on cellphone video. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Instead of facing up to moral decline, we lower our standards

Three decades on from a seminal essay foreshadowing the breakdown of Western societies, it is sadly evident its author been vindicated.

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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 28th ÃÂ 2023: (L-R) Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong, in Perth today with Yes23 Campaign Director Dean Parkin, the Hon Julie Bishop, and the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman. St Georges Terrace, Perth. Picture: NCA NewsWIRE/Philip Gostelow

Nation won’t be a global pariah for voting No

Predictions the world will heap opprobrium upon us if the indigenous voice to parliament referendum fails are wrong.

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BEYOND 23 News Corp host the Beyond 23 conference at The Horden Pavilion in Sydney today. Guests on stage debate Indigenous voice in parliament. Anthony Dillon pictured. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Why do Yes campaigners fear public debate?

It is easy for pro-voice activists to smear white opponents. But when intelligent people from the Aboriginal community point out the flaws in their argument, matters become far more difficult.

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(FILES) Former US president and 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump leaves after speaking at the Republican Party of Iowa's 2023 Lincoln Dinner at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 28, 2023. Donald Trump was indicted on August 1, 2023 over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election -- the most serious legal threat yet to the former president as he campaigns to return to the White House. (Photo by Sergio FLORES / AFP)

Why centre-right parties are failing Gen Z, millennial litmus test

If American Republicans, British Tories and Australian Liberals do not have a serious plan to address young people’s anxieties, they will become a beleaguered minority.

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Columnist Janet Albrechtsen and journalist Tom Switzer

We stand with Stan? Give us a break. Stand for quality journalism

High-profile figures get away with being presenters and activists because their views accord with the in-house ABC groupthink on everything from net zero to the voice.

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