Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions.

Energy security is national security. And for all the posturing from conservatives about “seeing Mad Max levels around the country right now” (whatever that means, the LNP’s Phil Thompson), they did this.

Something happened in the Senate this week.

When Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen won last week’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, along with the $25,000 Indigenous Writing prize, she called on the Australian government to change the way it taxes arts prizes. Araluen won for her poetry collection, The Rot, described by the judges as “a work of remarkable poetic intelligence;

It’s been a busy month here at the Australia Institute!

If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy! After all, that’s how politicians and the media describe the gas industry. But the truth is the federal government collects more money from the beer excise than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, as Independent ACT Senator David Pocock pointed out in Parliament,

If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy!

The rise of One Nation creates a surprising opportunity for progressive voters.

After months of speculation, the Liberal Party has a new leader, and the Coalition has a new frontbench. So, does that mean we can expect some new ideas?

This week, Australia rolled out the red carpet for a world leader who has been accused of inciting genocide, while NSW police were caught on camera bashing people protesting against genocide.

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.

Our first month of 2026 was an eventful one!

Last weekend, music fans across Australia tuned into national youth music station Triple J for the 33rd annual Hottest 100.

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.

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

Australia’s health system is in crisis and, while the tensions over funding between state and territory leaders and the Commonwealth is at an all-time high, people desperately waiting for medical help need real action, not performative posturing.

Another summer, another round of devastation: homes lost, communities evacuated, lives upended.

The first thought I had when the Albanese government’s under 16s social media ban was announced was: “Can I opt in?”

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 horrific anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Bondi, the most deadly mass shooting since the Port Arthur massacre thirty years ago, makes gun law reform in Australia necessary. Suggestions from former prime minister John Howard and others that gun law reform is just “a distraction” are cynical in the extreme. Precisely no one is suggesting gun

It’s been a massive year for everyone here at the Australia Institute, and we couldn’t have done it without you!