This Month
Judge retires to consider if Pauline Hanson is a racist
After a bitterly fought trial, a judge has retired to consider whether Pauline Hanson made a racial slur when telling a Muslim senator to go back to Pakistan.
- Miklos Bolza
April
A judge may decide if Pauline Hanson is a white supremacist
The far-right senator’s career of racial commentary is on trial in the Federal Court.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- Social media
Surge of violence tests policy tolerance of social media
The Coalition in particular has to ask tricky questions of when enough is enough on social media platforms.
- Laura Tingle
Agents orange: inside parliament’s battle of the hall passes
Crossbenchers are the focus of everyone with a stake in contentious legislation. No wonder David Pocock has had enough.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
March
- Analysis
- ASEAN
Sense of urgency as Australia finds its true international identity
There is a meaning to be extracted from the ASEAN summit for Australia’s international identity.
- James Curran
Peter Dutton’s secret FIFO trip
The opposition leader went on an undisclosed trip to Perth last week, attending Gina Rinehart’s birthday party for less than an hour.
- Mark Di Stefano
February
‘I’ve worn his shoes’: Hanson introduces her latest recruit
The One Nation leader believes new West Australian firearms reforms and resentment over the COVID-19 response will spark her party’s west coast revival.
- Tom Rabe
- Opinion
- Private schools
Working women swing to Labor – and to private schools
As soon as families can afford it, they have been switching to independent schools. No amount of public money is likely to reverse that soon.
- John Black
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
One Nation pales in comparison with vicious and evil Greens
Never has a political party so racist, confrontational and divisive been elected to the Australian parliament.
- Alexander Downer
January
- Analysis
- Australia Day
Australia Day has always been controversial
It’s nothing new for the national holiday to be plagued by debates over its meaning and significance. Indeed, that’s become part and parcel of the day itself.
- Updated
- James Curran
Dutton accused of stoking culture wars with Woolies boycott call
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has called on consumers to boycott Woolworths after the supermarket chain decided to stop selling Australia Day-themed merchandise.
- Updated
- Lois Maskiell and Ronald Mizen
November 2023
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Albanese’s pressing task to hold us together in a fractured age
The prime minister faces growing currents of economic and social disaffection. But is he up to the task of navigating a way through?
- James Curran
Gina Rinehart handholds Peter Dutton at her neon bush doof
The opposition leader was the star guest alongside Australia’s richest woman at Vegas in the Pilbara.
- Mark Di Stefano
October 2023
It’s finally time to decide on the Voice
A long fight for the Uluru Statement from the Heart will live or die when millions of Australians cast their vote. Polls suggest most people will vote against it.
- Tom McIlroy
NZ’s political maverick says party has teal streak
Libertarian David Seymour’s party could prove critical in deciding the next New Zealand government after weekend elections.
- Tom Rabe
September 2023
Australia spends less on Indigenous affairs than you think: study
The Lowitja Institute says only 6 per cent of the federal budget is spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
- Tom McIlroy
August 2023
Latham quits One Nation, accuses Hanson of rorting NSW
Mark Latham on Tuesday accused Pauline Hanson’s federal party of financial impropriety in an extraordinary session of parliament where he quit for the crossbench.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Hanson, Latham yet to speak after shock One Nation takeover
Pauline Hanson argues action vital after poor showing in NSW election and confirms she has not spoken with Mark Latham since intervening in the state branch.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Hanson and Latham set for war after federal takeover of NSW branch
It’s daggers at 50 paces inside Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, which has dumped Mark Latham as NSW leader in a takeover of the state branch.
- Samantha Hutchinson
June 2023
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
Why the Voice is in trouble
With the referendum legislation now through parliament, the PM says it’s time for the people rather than politicians to share in a moment of national unity.
- Jennifer Hewett
