The Australian edition of the iconic British weekly magazine, now with its own website.

Jan 22, 2025 · Around the Anglosphere, conservatives are fighting back against the capture of the established conservative political parties by the soft left or ‘wets’ or RINOs or Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull ‘Black Hand’ types, call them what you will. That’s true in the US, in Canada, in Britain, and even in New Zealand. But in Australia? Hmm. At best, we’re in …

Jan 19, 2025 · The battle of the vernacular and the political narratives around Australia Day finally seem to be reaching an exhausted truce. In 2025, there is a distinct public reversal in the trend of using Australia Day to shame Australians. Many false narratives surround our national identity, and these are proliferated on our national day. Some are harmless, some less so. One false narrative is that ...

Like many public-facing organisations trying to have their zeitgeist and eat it, the Australia Institute is getting down with ‘youff’. They’ve…

Dec 20, 2024 · As we approach the end of 2024, Australians have little reason to feel optimistic. Living standards have fallen, the currency is weakening, and the pressure of the rising cost of living continues to stretch households thin. The housing market remains a distant dream for many, and a pervasive sense of losing touch with our core values – especially in the troubling rise of antisemitism – has ...

Jan 19, 2025 · ‘Sadly, you can say what you like around the kitchen table at home,’ said Human Rights Commission President, Gillian Triggs, back in 2017. Australia cringed. Free speech has long been an endangered…

As a result of ballooning debt and falling economic activity, net debt as a share of gross state product is now the highest in Australia. Yet, in terms of per capita disposable income, Victoria is the third poorest state in Australia. That’s too bad because the interest on the debt has to be paid, so state taxes and charges have been raised. This is a problem that affects not just Victorians ...

Australia is being frog-marched toward blackouts, skyrocketing bills, and economic fragility under the Albanese Labor government’s reckless pursuit of so-called renewable energy.

A recent newspaper article asked university students how they would solve the current housing crisis. The article suggested that we were heading towards a housing ‘catastrophe’, but Gen Z had the…

Jan 5, 2025 · Senator Rennick goes on to accuse various ratings agencies of corruption due to a failure of accountability and a lack of separation between the regulators and regulated institutions. ‘There is no substitute for integrity in leadership,’ said the Senator. ‘Unfortunately, it is lacking both in the public and private sectors. People First Party will fund the TGA from Treasury (who will ...