Independent Australia's hypothesis that "comedian" Dave Hughes' appearances at Liberal Party fundraisers may contravene electoral laws was correct. Managing editor Michelle Pini reports. read now...

Escalating conflict in the Red Sea threatens to disrupt global shipping, drive up costs and trigger widespread supply shortages. read now...

Fourteen years, one mayor and a very expensive detour to end a political career. read now...

For decades, Australia’s economic commentariat has dressed neoliberal ideology as objective analysis, helping entrench policies that shifted wealth upwards and left workers behind. read now...

Multiculturalism should mean equality of all cultures in Australia — an example to be proud of. read now...

Australia needs a Federal Minister for Loneliness and Social Connection to provide leadership on tackling loneliness. read now...

AI is destroying our old methods of proving identity and our security systems must catch up. read now...

Planning to customise a new car? Learn how to set a budget, choose styling upgrades, improve comfort and arrange the work around your everyday needs. read now...

Around the world, there is growing consternation about the state of U.S. democracy. The angst is most intense in Washington, DC. read now...

While serious youth crime fuels genuine fear, evidence suggests harsher punishment is failing to address the small group of repeat offenders driving much of the harm. read now...

Political corruption thrives not simply through individual wrongdoing, but through systems that reward secrecy, influence and unequal access to power. read now...

Australia’s productivity debate overlooks a fundamental flaw: across much of the economy, productivity simply cannot be reliably measured. read now...

As propaganda clouds the Ukraine war, inconvenient truths are being buried and voices opposing the conflict silenced. read now...

AUKUS critics warn the $500 billion submarine deal is sacrificing Australian sovereignty and social priorities to deeper integration with the U.S. war machine. read now...

One Nation supporters consistently say Pauline Hanson is an “average” Australian who speaks her mind and “says what the average person is thinking all the time”. read now...

Economic analysis in most of Australia’s media last week was more manipulation than information. read now...

AI and war contributed to this week's interest rate rise. Everyone is sorry; no one is responsible & the bill is paid by everyday Australians. read now...

Connect with renewable energy projects and discover new opportunities to earn through Lake Energy’s easy-to-use digital platform. read now...

Australia’s courts stand tall on antisemitism while our universities, health and arts institutions continue to be cowed into submission. read now...

Angus Taylor harping on about wokeness and culture war politics could drive more voters to One Nation. read now...

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Striking Ore charts the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara, revealing how worker solidarity won hard-fought gains and what was lost as organised labour declined. read now...

Donald Trump’s headlong push for AI supremacy lies where artificial intelligence meets very real stupidity. read now...

Australia’s elections give voters real choice, but democracy remains incomplete when political parties control who gets to appear on the ballot in the first place. read now...

Compare five trusted roofing companies in Sydney for residential roofing. See what each does well and what to check before you hire a roofer. read now...

Explore nine firms financing battery storage projects in Australia, from major banks and government funds to specialist lenders supporting energy storage growth. read now...

David Shoebridge’s rise to the Greens leadership offers a chance to challenge Labor from the Left and push for more radical action on inequality, climate change and AI. read now...

With warnings of an AI-fuelled apocalypse growing louder, Independent Australia went straight to the source and asked ChatGPT whether we should start panicking. read now...

Australia must confront falling fertility, an ageing population and growing skills shortages with a long-term strategy that looks beyond migration alone. read now...

Despite calls for AI guardrails, sadly, the Albanese Government has been "toothless" and slow to act on the threat of AI. read now...

The Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates to 4.6%, but higher rates cannot fix oil-driven inflation and risk deepening an economic downturn. read now...

Today's boys are being fed entitlement and grievance — women are cast as the enemy who took something that was owed to them. read now...

Exam security becomes more useful when educators treat it as a chain of evidence rather than a collection of isolated controls. read now...

The global space economy is becoming another layer of the world's critical infrastructure — is Australia ready to meet the challenge? read now...

On a hot, windy afternoon, a backyard swimming pool looks perfectly still. Nothing is dripping, nothing is draining and the water level seems unchanged. Yet over the course of that day, a surprising amount of water may have quietly lifted off the su...

Australia’s bid for a UN Security Council seat exposes foreign policy contradictions that stand in sharp contrast to Finland’s diplomatic approach. read now...

With AUKUS costs soaring and scrutiny lacking, a public inquiry is asking the questions Parliament has failed to confront. read now...

Heatwaves are no longer a rare event. From southern Europe to the American south-west, summers are running longer and hotter, and cooling bills are rising with them. Australia offers a useful case study. read now...

Scroll through any online marketplace and you will find them: steel garden sheds and full-sized garages advertised at prices that seem almost too good to ignore. For households already stretched by rent, mortgage repayments and grocery bills, a shed...

As Australia finally joins the voices calling for sanity on AI and the Ku Klux Klan say they find One Nation’s rise “heartening”, managing editor Michelle Pini examines what such developments mean for democracy. read now...

Healthcare, housing and energy will be major issues in the U.S. midterm elections. How Australia compares is worth examining. read now...

Mainstream media has normalised Donald Trump’s lies, allowing deceit to become a powerful political weapon with little accountability. read now...

Explore safe teeth-straightening options at home, what really works for teeth alignment and how clear aligners can help you straighten teeth without braces.  read now...

Cockburn Sound is already an important working waterway, but plans for a new container port could make its role even more significant. Westport is designed to move Western Australia's container trade from Fremantle to Kwinana, putting more commercia...

AI is accelerating warfare and raising the risk of conflict spiralling beyond human control. read now...

The Coalition’s opposition to tighter working holiday visa rules is at odds with its lower migration target, leaving few politically palatable options for achieving it. read now...

China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by elections, but by who holds power, who benefits and who gets heard. read now...

The mainstream media continue to deny the positives, amplify the negatives and fabricate falsehoods. read now...

Mick & his mates pay homage to Monty Python while debating the benefits of immigration. read now...

People are relocating to South East Queensland from interstate, renters are shifting between leases more often than they would like, and families are heading north for work, lifestyle and warmer winters. Almost all of them go through the same handfu...

Bidding wars and nonsense targets are the focus of immigration policy in Canberra, with the Government's policy hoping to nullify One Nation's influence. read now...

Kate Halfpenny’s Boogie Wonderland is a candid and engaging memoir about chasing a simpler life and discovering that reality rarely follows the script. read now...

Explore how custom CRM builders make digital services accessible under Australian rules. Learn which development firms set the benchmark in 2026. read now...

Australia’s obsession with metrics, audits and managerial efficiency has created a culture of distrust that undermines professional integrity and the public good. read now...

A century-old science-fiction play foresaw the promise of AI becoming an existential threat to humankind. read now...

Judge exposes Kinnara Capital CEO Adrian James Campbell swearing under oath to a false affidavit to conceal a criminal past. read now...

Paint protection is one of the most upsold add-ons at new car delivery. What it does, what consumer guarantees cover and what to ask before signing. read now...

A long-awaited report on Victoria’s koalas has exposed alarming health problems and raised serious questions over population estimates and monitoring methods. read now...

Democracy demands more than elections, requiring both the power to challenge governments and the security and opportunity to share in national progress. read now...

Global fuel disruptions are exposing Australia’s vulnerabilities and strengthening the case for greater economic self-reliance. read now...

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate is just the symptom of a much larger malaise in the heart of civil administration. read now...

As AI industry leaders warn of the dangers of rapidly advancing superintelligence, Donald Trump is doubling down on America’s race for technological dominance. read now...

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate fails to produce evidence of his Mar-a-Lago dinner after being brutally rebuked by his idol, Donald Trump. read now...

Press freedom is under attack from algorithms and journalists trying to wound rather than inform. read now...

Commonwealth considering establishing statutory authority to take responsibility for the Emergency Call Person function currently performed by Telstra. read now...

Amid Hanson’s vitriol, supporters are recasting aspiring LNP leader Andrew Hastie as a voice of integrity and reason, but his track record makes it a hard sell. read now...

As Trump and Xi prepare to meet, the world’s mounting crises demand cooperation that neither leader seems willing or able to deliver. read now...

The skyrocketing global oil price in recent weeks has reignited the debate on cost of living pressures in Australia. read now...

Chris Hedges warns that Trump’s efforts to reshape the US electoral system threaten the midterms and could leave mass resistance as the final defence of American democracy. read now...

David Higginbottom examines who really holds power in Australia and how democratic institutions can better serve the people they represent. read now...

The 'underbelly of disregard for women's rights' allows Pauline Hanson to suggest domestic violence is a 'two-way street' and James Ashby to compare it to inconvenient media scrutiny. read now...

Commentators continue to vilify the Albanese Government with nonsensical claims about the economy. read now...

Tony Burke's immigration policy changes are like a Curate's Egg - good in parts, but are they enough to lower NOM to the targets Burke has set for himself? read now...

Imagining a dystopian future that would befall Australia under One Nation's immigration plan. read now...

In recent years, small Australian firms face cyber pressure from attackers, clients, tenders and insurers. A practical response starts with verifiable controls. read now...

First home buyer's stamp duty can vary from $0 to $40,000 depending on their Australian postcode. read now...

Life Insurance in Australia: How a broker finds you better cover than you'd find yourself read now...

Your lawn looks brilliant for about 48 hours after you mow it. Then, after you cut it, the uneven patches reveal themselves, the edges begin creeping over the path and that one strip near the fence ends up looking shaggier than the rest. read now.....

AI developers are sounding the alarm over potentially catastrophic risks while continuing the race towards increasingly powerful systems. read now...

Pauline Hanson attempts the ancient ritual of apologising without actually admitting she did anything wrong. read now...

A Muscat-led regional dialogue could help Gulf states build greater security, cooperation and strategic independence. read now...

Violence against women remains one of Australia’s most urgent social problems, and tackling it requires more than condemnation after tragedy strikes. read now...

Policy now assumes older Australians will age at home. The monitored alarm market has moved into that gap and it deserves the same scrutiny as the care system itself. read now...

Heavy-handed drug policing is undermining Sydney’s nightlife while doing little to tackle organised crime. read now...

Political short-termism is undermining our future, as growing challenges demand courageous, integrated long-term planning. read now...

If you've spent any time scrolling through tattoo inspiration lately, you've probably noticed a word or name that seems to read the same way even when you flip it upside down. That's an ambigram, and it's become one of the most popular tattoo...

Macklemore sucked the joy of ignorance out of the room by naming the harm, the harm we are all being made complicit in. read now...

A tribute to the late Dr Harley Dale, described by friend Professor Vince Hooper as the load-bearing wall of Australian housing economics. read now...

Not long ago, someone with a legal problem opened Google, typed a rough version of their question and clicked into a directory or a firm's landing page. Down the hall, an associate spent the afternoon reading discovery, drafting a memo and mark...

Australia's Digital Duty of Care Bill shifts the responsibility to provide a safe online environment to where it belongs - with Big Tech. read now...

One Nation’s plan to slash temporary migration by 750,000 promises dramatic cuts, but its numbers, assumptions and economic consequences don’t add up. read now...

Economic orthodoxy has survived repeated crises by protecting asset wealth and treating its own failures as exceptions rather than reasons for change. read now...

Labor governments face criticism from both sides, but progress requires compromise, consensus and accepting that not every change will suit everyone. read now...

It is alleged that this powerful male doctor irreparably harmed potentially over 1,000 (usually) young women, ruining their lives, and yet the many complaints and concerns against him were dismissed by every level of authority. read now...

With petrol prices continuing to rise over the year as anticipated, Australia’s transition to EV driving has been going from strength to strength, to say the very least. read now...

AUKUS is costing Australia billions while serving U.S. strategic interests, undermining sovereignty and making the nation less secure. read now...

Pauline Hanson’s plan to put the ABC behind a paywall threatens decades of shared Australian culture, writes Michael Gibbons. read now...

While newsrooms provoke fear and anxiety about concocted “crises”, life is better than ever. read now...

The tutoring industry in Australia has grown significantly over the past decade. What was once considered supplementary support for struggling students has become a standard part of the senior school experience for a growing number of families — p...

Victorian students preparing for their Year 11 and 12 exams are facing a subject landscape that looks very different from a decade ago. read now...