Year: 2025

Australia’s environmental management framework is undergoing a timely review to overhaul the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The government’s proposed reforms seek to fundamentally transform the way national environmental matters are […]

In some ways you have to feel sorry for Opposition Leader Sussan Ley. Elected after a rout at the last election, Ley has attempted to unite a Coalition of political parties that seem hell bent […]

When the President of the United States publicly declares six sitting lawmakers guilty of a capital crime, the story doesn’t quietly fade just because the news cycle moves on. Following President Trump’s November 20, 2025, […]

There has been an insufferable degree of smugness of late in the chatting classes about Australia’s electoral system. A special for Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced by veteran journalist Annabel Crabb has done much to swell […]

X has introduced a new feature that shows the country an account is posting from – and within seconds, the entire MAGA universe experienced mass, unplanned international travel. Suddenly, the loudest voices insisting they are […]

“You can’t always get what you want,” sang The Rolling Stones. The Australian mining lobby never received the memo. For decades, it has secured its every wish: a royalty regime that ranks among the world’s […]

When Peter FitzSimons asked what kind of legislation actually works – and which countries are doing it better – he pointed to the heart of a quiet national crisis. Australia doesn’t lack intelligence, civics, or […]