October 15, 2026
October 15, 2026
How the fossil fuel industry ‘captured’ Australia
The political capture of Australia by fossil fuels has been central in shaping our climate policies, reports Professor Christopher Wright.

March 18, 2026
March 18, 2026
The charity of former Melbourne power couple Luke and Cate Sayers has shuttered its website and failed to lodge its annual accounts with authorities.

March 9, 2026
March 9, 2026
Australia can't easily reduce its military dependence on the US, but with Canada, we can mitigate risk, says defence expert John Blaxland.

March 3, 2026
Audiences and journalism are the losers as right-wing mega-millionaire David Ellison manoeuvres Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros Discovery, writes Liam Burke.

February 27, 2026
February 27, 2026
Social media giant Meta has strongly suggested it will abandon its Australian fact-checking operations — such as those used to flag lies over the Bondi terror attacks — in line with its moves in Donald Trump’s America.

February 27, 2026
February 27, 2026
Writer Randa Abdel-Fattah was cancelled from Adelaide Writers’ Week because of intervention by Premier Peter Malinauskas, explosive board documents reveal.

February 23, 2026
February 23, 2026
The right to protest is under attack, raising serious concerns about freedom of speech – and the functioning of Australia's democracy.

February 16, 2026
February 16, 2026
US President Donald Trump has announced the US Environmental Protection Agency has repealed its own legal finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health.

February 15, 2026
February 15, 2026
Peter Lalor was among those attacked by police at the protest against the visit by Israel President Issac Herzog. "We were assaulted on the streets of our town by police itching for a fight," writes the senior journalist.

February 7, 2026
February 7, 2026
The new Adelaide Festival board says it will take it up to almost three months — which is after the South Australian election — to hand over the minutes of just one month’s worth of meetings.

February 2, 2026
February 2, 2026
Opposition leader Sussan Ley has taken another big polling hit, as defence spokesman Angus Taylor scrambles to get the numbers for a tilt at her position.

January 30, 2026
January 30, 2026
The pro-Israel lobby is fighting to “outlaw protest" and "constrain free speech” to silence criticism of Israel, says one of the nation’s most prominent Jewish identities.
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