Hating ‘elites’ is stupid,and it’s no crime to say so … yet

Hating ‘elites’ is stupid,and it’s no crime to say so … yet

We could pretend we live in a world where no one is smarter than anyone else,but I’d prefer we kept a grip on reality.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness

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Price was courageous to debate abortion issue,says pro-life Joyce

Price was courageous to debate abortion issue,says pro-life Joyce

The former deputy prime minister pushed back against shadow cabinet colleagues who say abortion is a state rather than federal issue.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Tony Abbott and Liz Truss team up to fight ‘net zero mind virus’

Tony Abbott and Liz Truss team up to fight ‘net zero mind virus’

The two former prime ministers,both drummed out of office by their peers,found they had much to agree on – including their relatively short tenures in the top job.

  • byMichael Koziol
War,elitism,racism:The Aussie taking Oxford uni’s hot topics off the boil

War,elitism,racism:The Aussie taking Oxford uni’s hot topics off the boil

Tim Soutphommasane,the first chief diversity officer at one of Britain’s most storied institutions,is no stranger to controversy.

  • byPaola Totaro
When art and politics collide:The battles tearing our cultural bodies apart

When art and politics collide:The battles tearing our cultural bodies apart

Sackings,boycotts,sponsorship withdrawals:arts organisations across the country are in turmoil. So who has the right to say what?

  • byKerrie O'Brien
Jewish groups demand extremist influencer Candace Owens’ visa be cancelled
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Jewish groups demand extremist influencer Candace Owens’ visa be cancelled

The American provocateur and Andrew Tate networker has minimised Nazi atrocities and peddled conspiracies about “secret Jewish gangs”.

  • byPaul Sakkal
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Controversial ex-ABC broadcasters set to debate identity politics

Controversial ex-ABC broadcasters set to debate identity politics

Antoinette Lattouf and Josh Szeps abruptly left the ABC within days of each other. Now they’re discussing one of the thorniest subjects in media.

  • byMichael Lallo
The tiny private Catholic college making a big impression at Sky News

The tiny private Catholic college making a big impression at Sky News

Campion College in western Sydney is punching above its weight at Australia’s largest and most conservative news channel,Sky News.

  • byCalum Jaspan
It’s tougher now than in the 1980s

It’s tougher now than in the 1980s

Even Boomers agree:younger people are doing it terribly tough because of the cost of putting a roof over their head.

Identity politics has the power to be meaningful. If only we stopped making it an incoherent mess

Identity politics has the power to be meaningful. If only we stopped making it an incoherent mess

Since the resignation of Senator Fatima Payman,fretting about identity politics has become a renewed national sport. Now it’s the frame through which all political actions must pass.

  • byWaleed Aly
Australia will lose if Payman’s identity politics triumphs
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Australia will lose if Payman’s identity politics triumphs

The senator’s passionate politics renders compromise unpalatable. The last thing Australia needs is this type of politics.

  • byParnell Palme McGuinness