Australia is a low taxing nation, but Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson still seems to want the highest earners to pay less.

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

The ‘president of peace’ is at it again: threatening Iran again and boasting that his ‘board of peace’ will look over the United Nations.

Wages aren’t driving higher inflation, so why do workers always seem to cop the blame?

Inequality creates insecurity and, as the United States is demonstrating right now, that insecurity can have devasting consequences for democracy.

By removing guardrails around nuclear weapons, the Trump administration is making the world a far more dangerous place.

On the back of ongoing tax concessions primarily benefitting the wealthiest and the government’s five per cent deposit scheme for first home buyers, Australia has just broken a new record for average home loan size.

With a leading role in this year’s United Nations climate conference, the Australian government has an opportunity to show genuine solidarity with its Pacific neighbours and climate-vulnerable communities at home.

As American democracy teeters, the Australian government is trying to pretend everything is just fine.

The privatisation of Australian high school education, originally led by the Howard government, has caused prices to soar.

With inflation driven by Christmas holidays and data centres for artificial intelligence, the RBA didn’t need to raise the interest rate this week, argues Matt Grudnoff.

With each passing day, the Make America Great Again movement is becoming more battle-hardened and less likely to disappear once Trump leaves office (whenever that may be).

Even the Mathias Cormann-led OECD says the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing are a problem.

The Australian government can’t keep its head in the sand and hope the chaos of the Trump administration will just go away.

The Trump administration may have killed what remained of the post-war international order, but last week Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered its eulogy.

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

American alliances aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

From Minnesota to Greenland, the Trump administration is bulldozing guardrails meant to protect human life and dignity.

Richard Denniss discusses the government’s response to the Bondi terrorist attacks, the chaos of the Trump administration and how to protect Australia’s democracy.

The Trump administration’s imperial march is gathering pace.

What would it take to make the PALM scheme a genuine win-win for Australia and its neighbours?

PALM visas holders do not get Medicare (outside of a trial limited to 200 people), so what happens when they are injured, get sick or fall pregnant?

Where do the thousands of people who have left the PALM scheme, but stayed in Australia, go? How do they survive without a valid visa and, more importantly, what does the future hold for them?

In this summer mini-series, we examine the Australian guestworker program that could be putting people from Pacific Island nations and Timor-Leste at risk of modern slavery.

Big economic reform probably isn’t as hard as governments think.

Traditional custodians are fighting back against climate-destroying gas developments being rammed through by Canadian governments.

Defense Secretary Hegseth doesn’t want the US military to fight with “stupid rules of engagement”.

Rooftop solar and data centres are drivers of Australia’s economic growth, but do they really bring the same value to Australian society?

These days, Aussie music is falling out of the charts, leaving local acts wondering if they’ll ever see your face again.

Trump’s statements about American nuclear testing left administration officials scrambling.