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The ‘axis of upheaval’ that's forming against the West
Since the Cold War ended more than 35 years ago, many of us have likely not given much thought to Bloc warfare. Those nuclear threats that the Wester…
10 hours ago
The likely change to the capital gains tax and the 'Ponzi scheme' of housing
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is slated to make a big change to the tax system, with the centrepiece of the May budget a change to taxing capital gains on p…
1 day, 10 hours ago
The uprising in women's basketball
There’s been something of a revolt in women’s basketball in the United States, and two Australians – Alanna Smith and Ezi Magbegor – are among the bi…
2 days, 10 hours ago
How Lego became the black market’s hottest trade
Just picture it: under the cover of night, police detectives raid a clandestine drug lab in Melbourne belonging to an organised crime gang. But inste…
3 days, 10 hours ago
No ‘drill baby drill’ moment: Chris Bowen on oil shock’s impact on green Australia
A fire at a Geelong oil refinery - one of two refineries left in Australia - has heightened anxiety around fuel supply.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen j…
6 days, 21 hours ago
Trump or Netanyahu – who pushed who into the Iran war?
Seven weeks into the US-Israel war with Iran, the narrative that Donald Trump was pushed into the war by Benjamin Netanyahu, and that the US presiden…
1 week ago
My niece needs the NDIS. Yes, it must be cut – but with a scalpel, not a chainsaw
As our journalist James Massola put it, his niece Mattea is like most three-year-olds: boisterous and bursting with energy.
Mattea is also not like mo…
1 week, 1 day ago
Harry and Meghan’s 'grifting': What the royals are doing Down Under
For years, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have been tanking in popularity polls. Meghan is now the second-most disliked royal, beate…
1 week, 2 days ago
Albanese’s gambling reform – big money versus the 'nanny state'
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been slammed – over the course of years – for failing to crack down on the more than 1 million gambling ads broad…
1 week, 3 days ago
Matt Canavan on his love of EVs, and calling out Pauline Hanson
The new leader of the Nationals, Matt Canavan, is a former Marxist from the suburbs who was once a Productivity Commission economist and then, a fire…
1 week, 6 days ago