Labor’s furtive attempt to fix up years of unlawful tax collection can only diminish public trust. So why is the opposition ...

Will AI become conscious? Or, at least, the version that has appeared in news headlines this year. Any minute now, we are ...

John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years in the Australian parliament including six years as deputy prime minister.

Our democracy remained imperfect – that same year, the Commonwealth Franchise Act explicitly excluded Aboriginal Australians ...

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2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...

The prime minister forcing the treasurer to backdown on proposed superannuation changes shows this government’s direction – ...

1968: The lecture that coined the term ‘the great Australian silence’, in reference to the treatment of Indigenous ...

The practical benefit of a serious journalist turning their hand to lowbrow comedy Such was my commitment to chronicling human depravity that friends made a small industry of jokes and parlour games ...

How network companies lined their pockets and drove electricity prices through the roof In the past few years, our electricity prices have doubled. While the media has feasted on the likes of pink ...