The sheer vacuousness of Australian (and indeed global) party politics is shown by the LNP victory in Queensland . As is stated in this arti...

It's an obvious piece of commentary, but I think still bears noting, that the victory of the Coalition in NSW, and their ability to rule...

Optimism about the Australian economic outlook is premised on the idea that Chinese demand for resource exports will carry Australia through...

The Australian economy has kept rumbling forward for the last couple of years like a headless chicken. "Look how it runs around! It...

David Marr's series on the rights of religions in Australia continues in greater depth : the overall conclusion here must be that the st...

Here's an interesting little nugget: private schools in NSW are allowed to exclude students on the grounds of their sexuality . An inter...

Soldiers at urban military installations to be armed, given immunity from prosecution in cases of killing civilians .

This story is a little confusing to the capsule narrative I have of Tanya Plibersek, viz. that she's about the most left-wing federal L...