The reason for this apparent incongruity must lie in the “OTH” group, and particularly the absence of Clive Palmer’s UAP ...

Among the many gems secreted in the Earle Page papers held by the National Library of Australia is the first-ever federal coalition agreement between a conservative rural party and a conservative ...

It is salutary to turn on the television on the morning after the biggest landslide to the Labor Party since 1943 and the Liberal Party’s worst-ever election defeat. We must have had Sky on by the ...

The numbers from the 2025 election are not yet final — as I write this, the AEC has counted just over 75 per cent of votes — but we do know that the pollsters’ figures all fell on the right side of ...

For all his talk of kindness and the accusations of weakness during the election campaign, Anthony Albanese is a political hard man. When the Right factions from Victoria and New South Wales axed long ...

For once, the superlatives apply. It was a “shock”; it’s “stunning.” No one expected this. At time of writing, across the 111 electorates with (incomplete) two-party-preferred counts, the Australian ...

If you ask the internet how to kill a zombie, the website Zombiepedia advises that “nearly all zombie survivalists are in agreement that the destruction of the brain is the only surefire way… (though ...

The proportion of “disadvantaged” kids going to school with other disadvantaged kids (and advantaged with advantaged) in Australia is among the highest in the rich countries of the OECD. Coming on top ...

Most discussions I see about China these days are about US–China competition, or the question of whether China’s economy will reign supreme (my answer: probably yes, because it’s really big). But ...

Fifty years ago this a series of confrontations between groups of Aboriginal people and police at Laverton, on the western edge of Western Australia’s Great Victoria Desert, led to the arrest of large ...

National affairs Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? Frank Bongiorno 4 May 2025 The party is taking a long time to understand its plight National affairs The ...