Ahead of the upcoming Federal Election, the Coalition Government has made another significant pledge to protect the Great Barrier Reef from further environmental harm and degradation. read now...

Peter Baker reviews David Hunt's 'GIRT: The Unauthorised History of Australia', a compelling book that manages to both educate and amuse. read now...

Research has shown venom from an Asian cobra species has strong analgesic properties. Snakes mostly invoke fear, but we should also appreciate the gifts they offer. read now...

When people are sitting on their rooftops and clinging to discarded car tyres to avoid drowning in a torrent of devastation, what is the leader of the nation to do? read now...

Can we get a "boo-hoo" for the real victims of rape culture — white, middle-aged, male, millionaire politicians who are called nasty names on social media? read now...

Grace Karskens of the Sydney Morning Herald described The First Dismissal by Luke Slattery as 'a fierce little book'.  read now...

On International Women's Day, we must reflect on the injustices facing women in Afghanistan, writes Nazdana Soltanfar. read now...

A vigilante determined to wipe out crime from his city's streets becomes tangled in the web of a serial killer's plot. read now...

On the anniversary of the execution of "Breaker" Morant, history editor Dr Glenn Davies examines the life of this legendary Australian. read now...

Meanwhile, his popularity is rapidly receding. read now...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is more concerned with potential threats from outside the nation rather than focusing on domestic problems. read now...

In amongst all the hysteria of price volatility, anonymity and the value of Bitcoin, the genius of Bitcoin has been overlooked. read now...

David Donovan joins Pam Walker and  Eva Cox for a Q&A in the Sydney University Media and Communications newsroom, discussing the role of independent journalism and how to make future voices heard. read now...

Since late last year, various business lobby groups are pressing for higher levels of immigration. read now...

The war in Ukraine has historical precedents, writes Frances Letters. read now...

Australia’s media regulator has secretly changed its methodology giving the appearance that complaints from the public have crashed to all-time lows. read now...

Dominique Grubisa is continuing to spruik her services despite criticism from legal professionals and scathing client reviews. read now...

Scott Morrison here. How good are me and my team? Here are just a few of my accomplishments during my first term. read now...

The gaming market is bigger than the total video market — television, streaming and music combined. Stakes are high for big digital media companies aiming to dominate this business. read now...

The efforts of a self-appointed ratings agency have shown how you need to be careful in the tricky world of publishing. read now...

The offer by tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to buy out AGL has stunned the markets and left the Morrison Government blindsided. read now...

Peter Dutton has established a crowdfunding campaign to assist flood victims rather than using emergency funding. read now...

Shortly after Labor’s largely unanticipated Federal Election loss, IA spoke with a Labor Party strategist. read now...

With war raging in Ukraine, Dave Sweeney looks at nuclear threats in the region, including a worrying Australian connection. read now...

Australia can expect an increase in catastrophic wildfires according to a recently released UN report. read now...

Concerns are increasingly being raised about the religious faith of senior Australian politicians. read now...

Catch the crooks! The Federal ICAC Now Party will be addressing an event this weekend to discuss its policies against political corruption. read now...

Riccardo Bosi has been telling the anti-lockdown movement a bunch of hysterical, bloodthirsty bullshit for a while now.  read now...

Sam Groth has been selected as the Liberal Party candidate for Nepean, but his policy platform seems to not go beyond a dislike of lockdowns. read now...

Internecine wars while the climate threatens to collapse around us is the height of folly, writes George Grundy. read now...

Australia's Agriculture Visa policy is in disarray, writes Abul Rizvi. read now...

With Russia launching a full-scale attack on Ukraine, Dr Lee Duffield analyses events leading up to the invasion. read now...

Sadly, he skipped the workshop on 'lockouts' vs 'strikes'. read now...

With the Federal Government failing to act on climate policy, it could be up to our billionaires to save the world. read now...

Dominique Grubisa continues to overstate her successes to her clients, reports David Donovan. read now...

I remember a father who found his son hours after his suicide. The father lay his son down and cradled his body through the night until responders arrived in the morning. read now...

Intelligent independents are the key to real political change. They can go where major parties fear to tread and argue for a fully empowered federal ICAC. read now...

With billions of dollars worth of investments in the fossil fuel industry, HESTA is contributing to the destruction of our planet. read now...

All countries have been graded on prosperity, security and freedom and Australia has been given a huge F for FAIL. read now...

The Prime Minister's abysmal ukulele performance is a parable for the off-key tune by which the Coalition governs Australia. read now...

The head of the ACCC has delivered a bombshell recommendation to the Government on recouping the costs of the NBN. read now...

The Perrottet Government's shutdown of the NSW rail network was mislabeled a 'train strike' by a compliant mainstream media. read now...

With other nations around the world eliminating coal as an energy source, Australia needs to do more to catch up. read now...

Michael Staindl gives his side of the story on his decision to question whether Josh Frydenberg had dual citizenship. read now...

A change in government could be instrumental in repairing the damaged relationship with China caused by the Coalition. read now...

What do news reports about Grace Tame’s bong, Jenny Morrison’s 60 Minutes fluff piece and Scott Morrison’s China scare campaign have in common? read now...

Australia's Muslim community has endured much vilification over the years, continued in Scott Morrison's Religious Discrimination Bill. read now...

As called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution would go a long way to bring justice to Australia's original inhabitants. read now...

Dr John Jiggins' book investigates criminal behaviour and drug trafficking, particularly marijuana, in Griffith and Sydney in the '60s and '70s.  read now...

If the Health Care Complaints Commission has been effective, we should see a reduction in the number of complaints about practitioners — complaints in NSW more than doubled in the past ten years. read now...

Despite the recently announced Government inquiry into regional banking services, it appears the process won't save individual bank branches. read now...

On 8 February 2022,  the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets. read now...

Extreme weather seen in Western Australia sends us an unequivocal message that governments and corporations must address the climate crisis, writes Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO David Ritter. read now...

Bank closures in regional Australia will be an election issue for the first time for years, as the findings of a Government inquiry are being handed down just before the Federal Election. read now...

Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. read now...

Disunity, disloyalty and incompetence abound as the L-NP abandons its chosen messiah and stumbles to the end of its season in power. read now...

Maybe next, the PM could manage to mangle that on the ukulele? read now...

Capturing and accurately articulating the oafish, offhand, casual brutality of the current Australian Federal Government is virtually impossible. read now...

It's our first Bloody Idiot episode for 2022 and an election is nigh, which, of course, means idiots are strutting their stuff everywhere. read now...

Time and time again, we are told that making people vote improves representation and representativeness.  read now...

After his Religious Discrimination Bill was defeated, Scott Morrison has taken a path of self-pity and finger-pointing. read now...

The promises and intent on the climate and environmental crisis given at COP26 are slowly melting away. read now...

Reports from NBN Co reveal the company's financial troubles are far from over. read now...

Australia's defence program has been mired by inferior military equipment and unwavering loyalty to the United States. read now...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison sure had a horror week. read now...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Religious Discrimination Bill comes at great cost, writes managing editor Michelle Pini. read now...

It has taken some time for me to process how I felt after the past week in Australian politics. read now...

As a result of the Government ignoring the plight of koalas, the species has now been listed as endangered. read now...

Despite all its tough talk on border control, the Government is overwhelmed with a backlog of visas that has built up over the years. read now...

Josh Frydenberg was described as ‘lighter than helium’ and having ‘no agenda’ by one staunchly pro-Coalition media outlet. read now...

The Migration Act has become a fest of discrimination, deteriorating rapidly under the Abbott and Morrison Governments. read now...

The "big four" banks started pulling out of regional Australia more than 30 years ago, but lack of transparency has made confirming the scale of closures difficult. read now...

The Coalition and Labor are seeking to discourage voters from turning to independents and minor parties, but their failure to achieve long-lasting policy change has voters looking elsewhere. read now...

Scott Morrison's fixation with getting the Religious Freedom Bill passed has blinded him to more important issues over the years. read now...

The Biden Administration is continuing the War on Terror through its own acts of hostility. read now...

Many in the anti-vax brigade are caught up in the idea that they are crusading against a circle of elite paedophiles. read now...

Following the parliamentary apology towards survivors of sexual abuse, it's time for real change from the men in government. read now...

"I'm gonna wash those doubts right out of your hair!" read now...

Despite his apology, Scott Morrison has not changed and continues to behave in the same toxic and misogynistic manner. read now...

Scott Morrison's controversial Religious Discrimination Bill is a huge step backward for human rights. read now...

It all seems worn, part of an "aspic" approach to foreign policy. But U.S. President Joe Biden is keen to ensure that old, and lingering mistakes, retain their flavour.  read now...

The Coalition's refusal to establish corruption mechanisms will likely come to bite them at the upcoming Election, writes Dr Kim Sawyer. read now...

A rise in media bias has resulted in a decline in journalistic integrity and truthfulness in reporting news. read now...

Facebook stock has fallen dramatically, which could be the beginning of the end of the social media giant. read now...

The anti-vax movement features a list of usual suspects ranging from politicians to social media attention-seekers. read now...

When the Big Swinging Dicks Club starts to turn against you, is your time at the helm numbered? read now...

Senator Richard Colbeck gave Newmarch House the green light to keep operating despite it failing over 80 per cent of its safety standards. read now...

David and Goliath battles are looming for the animal welfare and environmental movement in 2022. read now...

It is political orthodoxy that oppositions don’t win elections and governments lose them. read now...

The Morrison Government has become so entangled in scandals and misinformation that it's difficult to determine what's real anymore. read now...

The Prime Minister’s recent speech in Canberra revealed much about Australia’s press gallery, writes Alan Austin. read now...

From RATs to the "stroll out", COVIDSafe to quarantine, the Morrison Government has shown it’s more about style than substance, writes Nicole Taylor. read now...

Glenn Wheatley, a legendary mover and shaker in the Australian music industry for more than 50 years, has died from COVID-19 complications. He was 74. read now...

The U.S. and the CIA have a long history of conducting unethical experiments on people without consent, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.  read now...

I'm sitting in Rarotonga, the capital of the Cook Islands. A small island nation located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is beautiful. read now...

With COVID cases now in the hundreds of thousands, there's something lacking in the narrative when it comes to tackling all the new variants that will come in 2022. read now...

There are signs that support for green energy is sweeping the nation, writes Michael Mazengarb. read now...

Working holiday makers (WHM) have been a key part of Australia’s immigration arrangements since at least the 1970s. read now...

Governments across the USA are suing major climate polluters for the damage caused by their ‘intentional, reckless and negligent’ actions. read now...

With church scandals still making headlines, a new film depicting the life of Tammy Faye Bakker feels sadly relevant. read now...