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Australia’s Treasurer, a man with a PhD in political science and the communicative precision of a fortune cookie, stepped to the microphone this week to inform the nation that the impact of the Middle East conflict on the Australian economy is ‘uncertain’ but ‘substantial’.
Read that again. Slowly.
Uncertain. But also substantial.
Jim Chalmers does not k...
When it comes to foreign policy, the debate can easily get simplified into a binary of ‘free trade v protectionism’ or ‘high immigration v low immigration’. That framing often makes sense, but there is a third way.
Instead of just arguing for more/less trade and more/less immigration, the other part of the debate that we need to consider is the makeup of our trade and...
For forty-five years, the West has tried to weaken Iran’s regime without toppling it, and the people of Iran have paid the price.
Five days ago, the Middle East changed.
On February 28, 2026, at around 9:45 a.m. Tehran time, a joint US-Israeli airstrike struck Tehran, targeting the compound of Iran’s Supreme Leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the init...
The Victorian Labor government has continued with its ‘world first’ legislation with its recently announced work from home laws joining the machete laws as ‘world firsts’.
In a press release issued this week, Premier Allan enthusiastically stated that if you can do your job from home, you’ll have the right to do so – no matter the size of your workplace.
This i...
At the moment, a lot of people – notably including the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer – are comparing the current war with Iran with the Iraq invasion of 2003. Do they have a point?
There are several common claims of comparison, some good, some bad.
There is no use pretending that the decisions Starmer has made will not have vast and far-reaching consequence...