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

Last week the Liberal Party shamefully misquoted the head of the Reserve Bank in a weak attempt to justify its criticism of government spending.

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.

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.

If the Coalition’s aim is to stay in opposition, it’s doing a bang-up job.

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.

When Donald Trump posted an AI video of himself in a plane, spraying crap all over Americans, I couldn’t help but admire his transparency about the way he treats the American people.

The leadership of the Australian National University (ANU) has been claiming it is in financial crisis, with the former vice-chancellor declaring the institution was living beyond its means.

Genevieve Bell, vice-chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU), has announced her resignation. Many will welcome this news.

It tells you a lot about who wields power in Australia that Woodside is being allowed to haggle in secret over the conditions of the North West Shelf expansion

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

The leaders of Australian universities are enjoying the best of both worlds when it comes to the way they are regulated, but students are getting the worst.

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:

For the sake of taxpayers, let’s hope that the Audit Office is inspecting the AUKUS books closely. Australian money is flushing into the US submarine construction system – a billion US dollars so far, with another billion by year’s end. What will Australia have to show for it? Nothing. Except, of course, for a lot of international

Buried deep in Australia new emissions data release is this nugget, in the ‘revisions’ section: “Fugitive sector emissions decreased 2.2% over the year to March 2025, mainly driven by reductions in natural gas venting emissions from new carbon capture and storage activities and a decline in production across both surface and underground coal mining. Estimates

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.

In the fight against slavery, abolitionists eventually prevailed over slave owners. The long fight was not won in the sensible centre, but by “radical, democratic” absolutists who risked their lives in the fight to save the lives of others. It scares me to think how the ABC, or indeed most of the world’s media, would

Business representatives sit down today with government and others to talk about productivity. Who, according to those business representatives, will need to change the way they do things?

Latest decision on salmon farming almost certain to be catastrophic for endangered species, writes Eloise Carr

Clive Palmer, the billionaire coal miner who funded the Palmer United Party, United Australia Party and Trumpet of Patriots, is considering another political run.