In 2014, Noel Pearson delivered an eulogy for Gough Whitlam. Professor Tom Clark wrote about it for The Conversation and said “Pearson came to praise Caesar on Wednesday, certainly not to bury him” as he listed the achievements of one of Australia’s greatest reformers. Pearson said he was speaking to “this old man’s legacy with no partisan brief” but named

There are just under 200 countries in the world and Australia is in the G20.

Shedding voters on the left and the right, is the Liberal Party heading for “oblivion”?

In five days, Anthony Albanese will become Australia’s longest-serving prime minister since John Howard.

Australians have been lectured a lot in the past couple of years about social cohesion, but it reached a fever pitch this week in response to protests against the visit by Israel’s head of state.

The first Labor national government anywhere in the world was elected in Australia in April 1904.

We are about to head back into parliament – and the sitting year proper – with one of the major parties again focused on itself, and the other doing all it can to ensure the focus remains on its rivals.

Anyone interested in politics would have heard the paraphrased Plato quote at some point – “one of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”.

The biggest loser in the political brinkmanship Anthony Albanese and Labor lured Sussan Ley and the Liberals into with the hate group legislation no one wanted is, as always, the public.

The government passed new gun control and hate speech legislation in a special parliamentary sitting, but what impact will they have on Australian democracy?

Sussan Ley started 2026 much like she ended 2025 – extending her tenuous hold on the Liberal Party leadership by politicising tragedy.

There is no denying Australia’s sense of safety has been shattered. There is no denying antisemitism exists in Australia and that the fears of the Jewish community have been horrifically realised in a way that perhaps we will never recover from. There is no denying that in the days and months to come we will

The problem with having pattern recognition is that you can always see the fires before they start.

The greatest trick neoliberalism ever pulled was convincing people government intervention shouldn’t exist.

On the eve of his defeat as Liberal Party leader in 2009, Malcolm Turnbull gave an interview to press gallery legend Laurie Oakes that still shocks hardened political watchers today.

In 1963, Arthur Calwell published Labor’s Role in Modern Society, his 190-page treatise on his political party and Australian politics.

Around this time 12 years ago, Barnaby Joyce stood up and declared the average family lamb roast was about to cost $100.

You could almost taste the desperation in the air as various Liberal MPs attempted to justify their self destruction; but perhaps the most tasteless excuses were when it came to justifying their decision to the next generation.

The capital gains tax concession and negative gearing have worked together to make housing less affordable and exacerbate inequality.

One of my first journalism jobs was at a regional newspaper with a printing press attached. As a baby journalist, it was magical – you could see your front page story printed in front of you before it was bundled and sent out on trucks to become the next day’s news.

One of the hardest things for people to understand with this latest Liberal Party implosion is that it’s not rational.

We are in, quite possibly, the stupidest timeline.

The dispute between Chris Hedges and David Marr reveals much about the state of our press.

“Single JobSeeker [payment] just hit $400 a week. Let me know how you’d go if you were getting that little and were randomly not paid.” This comment, from the people behind Nobody Deserves Poverty, points to the ignored cruelty at the heart of one of Australia’s most shameful open secrets. The mutual obligations system –

Back in 2003, then prime minister John Howard spoke to ABC radio Brisbane and made the infamous claim that no one was approaching him on the street to complain about their house prices going up.

Australia has always had influence and power, it has just been too cowed to use it.

We need to talk about the Pacific.

Let’s take a bit of a look at responsibility shall we?

Northern Ireland political philosopher Onora O’Neill gave a series of lectures on “trust” in 2002, where she observed it is one of the most important social constructs we can hold:

This shouldn’t be new information to anyone who has been paying attention, but it is now undeniable. The Coalition is a fringe party, and should be treated as such.