The search for the “sensible centre” in Australia politics is pointless and flies in the face of evidence, says Richard Denniss.

Like a reanimated corpse from The Walking Dead, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the boondoggle “technology” that just wont die. As a way for governments to piss public money up the wall, CCS is incredibly effective. On almost every other front, it’s a spectacular failure.

Nearly three decades after the Port Arthur massacre, there are more guns than ever before in Australia and there is still no national firearms register.

Tasmanians have returned another power-sharing parliament – it’s now up to the major parties to make it work.

When the medical world hosts a conference on quitting smoking, they don’t invite Phillip Morris, or British American Tobacco along to help “be part of the solution”.

Amy Remeikis and Matt Grudnoff preview the first parliamentary sitting week.

By limiting generous tax concessions for the wealthy and collecting revenue from Australia’s natural resources, the Government could fund health and education systems that work properly.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilisation, but they are also a tool we can use to change the shape of our economy, not just its size.

Labor won big and the Coalition got “smashed”, but the major parties have never been more reliant on preferences.

Despite demands from the hawks that the Australia Government fall in line with the United States over Iran, it’s not inevitable that Australia supports illegal American military intervention.

Labor’s planned reforms to superannuation tax concessions may be being reported as “controversial” but the fact is they are popular.

By reviewing the deal, Trump has given the Australian Government an opportunity to get out of the disastrous AUKUS agreement.

With the influence of the right-wing media waning, the Labor Government can use its massive majority to pursue big reforms.

Friends, Australians, countrymen, we come to bury Peter Dutton, not to praise him.

With the influence of its historical opponents waning, is anything standing in the way of the Labor Government passing ambitious reforms?

Football, meat pies, kangaroos and gambling – there’s nothing more Australian.

The United States is disappearing down an authoritarian rabbit hole and Australian leaders are struggling to respond.

It’s not often I agree with Peter Dutton, but I can admit when he’s right and he’s right about two things.

Peter Dutton has it half right on gas. There is no supply shortage, but Australians need to be using less gas – not more.

With housing affordability at an all-time low and the spectre of Trump looming large over our region, Australians’ standard of living will be at the heart of the debate from now until election day.

While all eyes were on the budget, the Albanese government gutted Australia’s environmental laws. The changes are great for the salmon industry, but terrible for endangered species and Australia’s democracy.

The Government’s proposed environmental law changes are an attack on our democracy and could benefit destructive industries far beyond Tasmania’s coastal ecosystems.

Chunks of dead salmon have washed up on Tasmanian beaches and the Maugean skate is at risk of extinction, so why won’t governments to more to rein in the salmon industry in Tasmania?

Polls point to a power-sharing government being the most likely outcome at the upcoming federal election, but how do they actually work?

By laying off tens of thousands of federal employees, challenging the authority of judges and throwing erstwhile allies under the bus, the Trump administration is radically reshaping America and its role in the world.

The Reserve Bank has cut interest rates for the first time since November 2020 – so is the Australian economy out of the woods?

Australians, by and large, have seen America as an ally critical to our national security. But in just a few short weeks, Donald Trump has shown his administration is a threat to Australia and the world’s security. Australia may not be able to stop Trump from creating chaos, but we will undermine our own security if we don’t stand up for ourselves and for our values.

We discuss Trump’s new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports and what they’ll mean for Australia.

Australia needs an electoral system that’s genuinely fair, not a two-tiered system that favours the major parties.

President Donald Trump has been issuing Executive Orders and dominating the media cycle, trying to radically reshape America and the world in the process.