Opinion Australia

It started decades ago.

Australians are particularly susceptible to online scams, despite having a full swathe of internet safety regulators.

We have seen far too often how this ‘do something, anything’ mentality operates in practice.

Even if alleged past atrocities took place, does that justify calling for the complete destruction of a state?

Dutton ensured Australians would have a real choice at the election with his Budget Reply.

Beware the WHO’s slow motion coup d’état of every nation’s sovereignty.

His job in a budget-in-reply speech is to hold the government to account, not to govern himself. The time for detailed plans is much closer to the next election

We saw a truly impressive flexing of feminist power on display over the last month.

Is this the future of Australia? Fat, flaccid, and foolish?

This year’s Budget paves the way for an earlier election, should its assumptions prove accurate.

The treasurer should have stayed the course. He needs to save every bit of money he can.

A member of Parliament is not a delegate. He or she is elected to listen to all the voices in a debate, and bring a considered judgment to the issues.

Free speech and freedom of thought are at the bedrock of our democratic society, so it is outrageous that the Bill could challenge them.

The Solomon Islands election could have hailed a major change of fortune for Australian and US leaders in the region, except things appear to remain the same.

The issue of domestic violence dominated headlines this past week, but is there more to the story?

France has embedded abortion in its Constitution. How can we tolerate the disintegration of moral boundaries when we allow babies to be killed.

The allegation that maths is racist and therefore needs to be ‘decolonised’ is not unique to ANU.

The demand to do more to protect vulnerable women is understandable. But there’s also a price we pay for knee-jerk responses.

Anyone who has studied a skerrick of history knows that protecting free speech is about giving voice to the powerless against the more powerful.

There can’t be many countries whose patriotic focal point is a military loss, yet that is true of us.