In the Morrison Government, it seems, it’s not nearly as important to know who knew what happened – or when – in the Brittany Higgins case as it may be to the rest of us. read now...

In the lead up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, mass violence after the polls closed looked likely, as this September article by Dr Hirst, read by about 70,000 people, showed. Thankfully, this hasn't eventuated — yet.  read now...

Our brilliant tech columnist, Paul Budde, had three articles in IA's top ten, two of which were about Australia's far less impressive national broadband network — this August article being read by nearly 50,000 people. read now...

Pundits and politicians today are being accused of stochastic terrorism. The most obvious example is Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has inspired violence from supporters. read now...

Electing candidates from churches like Scott Morrison's Pentecostal Church and packing them into parliament is damaging to a viable democracy. read now...

Damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic was worsened in Australia due to a lack of preparation and effective management. read now...

Sydney solicitor Dominique Grubisa tells her students she can offer them lifetime asset protection, but the facts suggest otherwise. Another eye-popping addition to David Donovan’s outstanding investigation into this dubious lawyer. read...

As the Kobani trials move forward, political and economic tensions are increasing within the government of President Erdogan. read now...

Three of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have suffered significant blows in quick succession. read now...

The rising price of cryptocurrencies is resulting in higher demands for electricity in order to produce them. read now...

After its unwillingness to help stranded Australians in India during the pandemic, our government is still sending athletes to the Tokyo Olympics. read now...

War crimes justice does not work the way commentators generally suggest it does. read now...

More evidence controversial lawyer Dominique Grubisa is promoting incorrect and inaccurate legal strategies to her business investment students. David Donovan reports. read now...

The Government isn't doing enough to prevent Indigenous children from being removed from their families. read now...

He promised Australia the moon... and we've been 'mooned' all right! read now...

Journalistic integrity is helping to diminish support for Israel and encourage a global human rights movement. read now...

Victoria is entering yet another lockdown, but Victorians shouldn’t be blaming contact tracers or the State Government. read now...

When it comes to thinking, progressives do it better than conservatives do. read now...

From New York to Bristol, Jewish communities have organised globally in protest over Israel’s brutal and ongoing displacement of Palestinian people. read now...

Australians need to be realistic when it comes to China, write Dr Dean Aszkielowicz and Paul Taucher. read now...

Government and private sector money must go into telecoms projects across Australia, writes Paul Budde. read now...

There have been some developments in the USA in the past week that might affect Foxtel — and Stan to some extent too – here in Australia. read now...

The Fair Work Commission must reject calls for "wage restraint" from the business lobby at a time when many are banking record profits at the expense of struggling workers. read now...

COVID-19 may serve to intensify the pre-existing turn towards fascism, currently inflaming the Western world. read now...

Tackling budget repair by increasing property taxes for the top end of town is a bold and effective move by the Andrews Government. read now...

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is one of the most high-profile voices to highlight the threats to Australian democracy posed by big media, political corruption and rising social and economic inequalities. read now...

The pandemic has stalled “big Australia”, even though Scott Morrison craves an early restart and Anthony Albanese is aboard. read now...

Anthony Albanese has been the alternative prime minister for two years this week. The image the mainstream media have shaped is far from the full picture, writes Alan Austin. read now...

The death and destruction caused by Israel’s military power in recent conflicts have fuelled Palestinians in their fight for statehood. read now...

In one of the most uninspiring and regressive budgets ever, the Morrison Government has continued its eye-watering bolstering of the fossil fuel industry. read now...

Cameron Daly reviews a book by Dr Klaas Woldring, which provides feasible solutions for repairing and maintaining Australia's social democracy. read now...

When it comes to climate and energy policy, the Morrison Government has become like the deranged relative of Australian public life. read now...

Despite flora and fauna species suffering a massive blow after the Black Summer fires, the NSW government is still pushing ahead with deforestation. read now...

Calls for a national advertising campaign encouraging those reluctant against the COVID-19 vaccine to change their minds have increased. read now...

Dr Evan Jones continues his examination of white-collar crime from the corporate banking sector. read now...

It might look like something of a closed shop, but we need only look at recent AFL history to know that several teams are still well in the hunt to make finals. read now...

The new draft curriculum for Australian history, says Education Minister Alan Tudge, is not getting “the balance right”. read now...

Now? November? Try Never-uary! read now...

When it comes to the pandemic, Morrison is caught between the voters' and the donors' competing demands and is balancing them by… well, doing nothing. read now...

The most systematic white-collar crime of Australian banks against borrowers is still ignored by those in authority and by the media. read now...

New South Wales Police never took a statement from Christian Porter’s accuser and Australia’s mainstream media have seemingly forgotten to report on it. read now...

This Friday, schoolchildren will again take to the streets to protest the failure to address the climate crisis. read now...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was on an inexplicable high after his underwhelming pre-budget speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce (ACCI) as he repeated his performance for the masses with the 2021-22 Budget this week. read now...

Last week, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison mixed up Taiwan and Hong Kong. read now...

The Federal Government has never been so corrupt, writes Richard Gillies. read now...

As the NBN rollout continues to suffer from complaints and budget overruns, NBN Co executives have paid themselves millions of dollars in bonuses. read now...

Actions of the Israeli Government are part of a deliberate and systematic ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people. read now...

A dubious Coalition plan to temporarily dump nuclear waste for a future government to re-locate, 100 years later, at another undecided location is long-lived and toxic. read now...

Last Thursday, the New Liberals filed an application with the Australian Electoral Commission, seeking de-registration of the Liberal Party of Australia. read now...

​​​​​​​Some commentators drew parallels between the deep deficits and soaring debt the Coalition embraced in last week’s Budget and Labor’s past policies. Alan Austin shows why they are vastly different. read now...

On April 21, U.S. Admiral Charles Richard was all warning and concern, urging the U.S. Senate to consider a simple proposition.  read now...

Alex Hawke appears not to have grasped the flow-on effects of relaxed visa conditions on Australian workers, students' exposure to exploitation or Australia's international standing. read now...

WA's First Nations suicide toll will likely rise with the fall of outreach service NSPTRP, which needs proper government funding to survive. read now...

It’s Budget week and that normally means huge flurries of propaganda from the Government’s tame media outlets. read now...

A closer examination of Anthony Albanese's Budget reply speech reveals that it lacks any substance behind his words. read now...

Successive Federal Governments have continued to get away with extinguishing Aboriginal land rights despite the Mabo case and Wik decision. read now...

The Liberal Party has escaped accountability for its corruption for too long and the Australian public should speak up now. read now...

Father of incarcerated journalist Julian Assange, John Shipton, is continuing his campaign for his son's freedom. read now...

A digital infrastructure platform could be the next tool in cyber warfare as trust declines and tensions increase between global powers. read now...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues his parliamentary circus and perpetuates his reputation as the nation's clown. read now...

The 2021 Federal Budget must be recognised as the Coalition’s Budget most favourable towards artists and the sector in recent years. read now...

Women and children of the nation hold their applause. read now...

Despite a lack of progressive policies and various demographics being neglected, the Morrison Government is still retaining a lead in popularity. read now...

The Government updated its population assumptions in the 2021 Budget, highlighting its eagerness to get the population rising. read now...

The Morrison Government is at war with its own people.  read now...

Alarmingly, some of the worst contributing factors of male veteran suicide are systemic to the ADF itself. read now...

To stand a chance of winning the next election, Labor must change its leader to someone who is well-known and has broad appeal, writes Paul Begley.  read now...

Recent rhetoric on war is more about supporting the highly lucrative defence industry as it is about countering the rise of China, writes Dr Rashad Seedeen. read now...

By enacting the travel ban against Australian citizens returning from India, the Morrison Government has managed to unite Matt Canavan, Andrew Bolt, the Greens and Labor. read now...

Imagine if the Prime Minister was a hardline atheist giving speeches about political matters at an atheist convention that he or she wanted to keep from the wider public. read now...

Will the Morrison Government use this budget to move forward and embrace the opportunities of a post-carbon global market or take Australia back to the “dog days”? read now...

The company paid $110,000 to conduct an “independent review” into the corporate regulator refused to stand by the Government’s claims that it made no findings of wrongdoing against regulator bosses James Shipton and Daniel Crennan. r...

Ever keen to spread the word, God's homie, PM Morrison, lays it on thick with IA’s religion reporter. read now...

Coal industry giant AGL attempts to silence Greenpeace for exposing its devastating ongoing damage to the environment and human health. read now...

Australia’s high job participation is not the cause for celebration the Morrison Government and the mainstream media want voters to believe it is, reports Alan Austin. read now...

With cultures that blame them for what men do to them, women in Pacific countries are being abused. We must speak out. read now...

It will be the rate of long-term economic growth that Josh Frydenberg uses in his 2021 Intergenerational Report that tells us the most about his plans for Australia’s future. read now...

In the wake of the least-watched Oscars in recent history, entertainment editor John Turnbull checks out a pair of non-award-worthy movies in cinemas now. read now...

While most of the world supports outlawing space weaponry, the U.S. Government is still pushing to militarise space. read now...

History editor Dr Glenn Davies investigates other “Trees of Knowledge” around Australia and considers which has the claim as the original. read now...

The lives of van dwellers as portrayed in the film Nomadland provide a reminder of our government's ignorance towards the homelessness crisis. read now...

Jarrad Searby was a Proud Boy in February, and he’s a Nazi now. It only took a couple of months. The transition is simple and that’s why it’s worth documenting. read now...

It's hard enough dealing with racist attitudes within our country, but when they come from within one's own family the impact is more painful. read now...

The fossil fuel industry is making false claims that a new hybrid coal/hydrogen power plant will help us reach emissions targets. read now...

Responsibility? How good is outsourcing?!! read now...

The Australian Government is making its citizens stranded overseas during the pandemic crisis feel unwelcome back to their own home. read now...

Inequality in the Australian educational system has placed our nation far behind most countries while the Government ignores the situation. read now...

Aside from the moral obligation to protect our endangered flora and fauna, the Government would do well to consider the economic value. read now...

The PM attended a Pentecostal national convention, at which he shared with those gathered his belief that he and wife Jenny have been “called to do God’s work”. read now...

The devastating outbreak across India exposes the stark failures in governance and vaccine development locally and across the world, writes Dr Rashad Seedeen.  read now...

NBN Co has released its plans for the 2021 pricing review consultation process. read now...

The (Tasmanian) devil is in the details.  read now...

What is it that propels some of us to go on when we think all is lost? From IA founder Dave Donovan comes an incredible, harrowing and life-affirming story of survival. read now...

Whether Morrison is “authentic” in his faith is irrelevant to the fact that he is clearly not respecting the division between church and state required by our Constitution. read now...

For developed nations, the period 1950 to 2050 will be an extraordinary population shock, tracking the four stages of the boomer life cycle: childhood, adulthood, old age and death. read now...

Cuts to the arts will devastate the sector, writes Leya Reid. read now...

The ancient Biblical texts may help Australians answer one pressing political question of the moment, writes Alan Austin. read now...

Belated arts support offered by the Coalition does little to encourage stable recovery from the impacts of funding cuts and COVID-19. read now...

In his ANZAC Day address, Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo has warned Australians should be prepared for war. read now...

In October, we reported on online reviews of Dominique Grubisa's DG Institute being submitted by fake identities. Now Independent Australia has identified numerous questionable "news stories" promoting the DG Institute. read now...