Opinion Australia

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.

According to a YouGov survey, most Australians don’t enjoy their job.

The Brazilian church has prostrated itself to totalitarianism.

Our ANZACs stormed the shores of Gallipoli in a battle that etched the Cooee echo of our soldiers forever in the history pages of the world.

In the 1980s, Australians fought hard against a similar national ID program, what has changed since then?

If high-sounding rhetoric could deter our adversaries, then the Albanese government’s new defence budget was a resounding success.

Given the way that non-Israeli governments in the Middle East treat their citizens, I don’t think the Palestinian people, especially women, would be truly free.