Our allies have a Plan B as geopolitical tectonic plates shift, and Australia needs one too
Allied nations are openly reassessing their global relationships with China and Russia in light of the US’ increasing unpredictability. Australia? Not so much.
One of the first acts of Australia’s new anti-corruption agency was to commit ‘significant non-compliance’ with finance law by failing to officially sign off on tens of millions of dollars of construction costs.
The Nationals frontbenchers who refused to vote for the hate speech laws were right to do so — but what happens next could set a harmful precedent.
Australia is giving the Trump administration billions while it sets about attacking our allies and trashing the norms of western democracies. And all America’s apologists can say is “keep your head down”.
Once these powers are granted, they are very rarely relinquished.
SBS management have told workers they’re all out of money, and they’re all out of ideas, in an all-staff email over union negotiations.
Thanks to Trump, the Nobel Peace Prize is being used like a diplomatic Groupon
Peace, apparently, is conditional on prize distribution.
Plus a new geopolitical phrase is taking hold.
Japan is suddenly our third-favourite destination, and rapidly closing in on New Zealand in second spot.
Ley has ‘tense and charged’ discussion with Nationals colleagues as Coalition splits on hate speech laws
The Liberals and Nationals have found themselves at odds over the Albanese government’s hate speech legislation, and French President Emmanuel Macron has told world leaders to stand up to bullies.
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The nation’s peak Islamic body was not only the last stakeholder group to be consulted before the draft of the hate speech bill was made public, but it was also not provided a draft as other organisations had been.
The government’s hate speech bill is very much the product of the Albanese-era. And the reaction to it from the opposition is also deeply in character for a flailing Coalition.
With the impending departure of Kevin Rudd from the US ambassador role, News Corp will need a new subject for slow news days.
The Australian has run at least 10 stories decrying Cathy Wilcox’s controversial cartoon about the Bondi royal commission. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Tackling hate is not just a legal issue; it is a social and structural one. Laws matter, but they work best alongside education.
Recent developments in the Bruce Lehrmann case in Toowoomba show how complicated the justice system is to navigate.
Welcome to a little something I like to call ‘the data centre black hole effect’.
A grass fire at one of Australia’s largest solar farms has laid bare the depth of anti-renewables feeling in sections of regional Australia. But it has also shone a light on a massive double standard.
Despite claims of a tight labour market, it seems Australian employers are waiting to see what impacts higher inflation might have.
Australia’s economy looks to be in good shape — especially when you compare it to what’s happening in Donald Trump’s America.
The government’s handout to Rio Tinto last week to ensure the future of the expensive, enormously energy-hungry Tomago plant in NSW rewards a strange collection of bedfellows.
Labor is handing millions of taxpayer funds to private equity firms with no rationale beyond propping up manufacturing. Along with its new raid on super, it shows a disregard for being careful with other people’s money.
Instability in the Indo-Pacific is increasing, bringing the geopolitical uncertainty caused by the actions of Trump 2.0 right to Australia’s doorstep.
Plus the French embassy in Washington is having a time.