Victoria is building a new multicultural bureaucracy and handing out millions for security — Labor is openly linking it to the rise of One Nation
Victoria’s Labor government is building a new multicultural bureaucracy, recruiting a fresh layer of senior leadership and distributing millions of dollars to community organisations for infrastructure and…
Tradies are reportedly quitting the CFMEU and calling One Nation — the political warning for Labor is bigger than the union scandal
One Nation says something unusual is happening at its head office. The phones, according to the party, are receiving calls from disgruntled tradies and workers who say…
The suppression order on Lidia Thorpe’s MCG attack has lifted — and the hidden court story is extraordinary
The public knew Senator Lidia Thorpe had been injured. For more than 16 months, Australians were prevented from knowing much of the story behind it. They could…
Why Melbourne became one of the most Greek cities on Earth — thousands of kilometres from Greece
People sometimes joke that Melbourne is Greece’s second-biggest city. The numbers are more complicated than the joke, and Athens and Thessaloniki can safely keep their official rankings….
The Australians who sit with strangers as they die so their final moments are not spent alone
Sometimes there is no family rushing down a hospital corridor. No son trying to make the last flight home. No daughter sitting beside the bed with a…
Pauline Hanson is the interview every network wants — and Seven beat 60 Minutes to Britain’s most explosive story
There is a rather obvious problem with the Australian media’s insistence that Pauline Hanson represents a fading fringe of national politics. The television networks keep chasing her….
The Australian went after Karl Stefanovic’s sponsor — and may have just handed Ringers Western its biggest publicity win yet
There is an old rule in media: if you are going to take a swing at somebody, make sure you are not accidentally writing their next advertising…
China’s Pacific missile test exposed the dangerous gap between Australia’s politics and the world it now faces
For a few minutes this month, the strategic reality Australia has spent years trying not to think too deeply about was written across the Pacific sky. China…
One Nation says it lacks the resources to cost every promise. Its polling surge has made that a much bigger problem
One Nation’s extraordinary rise in the polls is forcing the party to confront a problem that matters far more when voters begin to see a political movement…
Albanese calls Welcome to Country ‘politeness’. Rita Panahi says that is exactly the problem
Anthony Albanese believes he has a simple explanation for Welcome to Country ceremonies. They are an act of respect. An act of politeness. A recognition of Aboriginal…