IA is thrilled to invite you to join our exclusive live-stream Federal election coverage tomorrow night, 21 May 2022 from 6.30 pm. read now...

A tale of a democracy sausage stall gone wrong. read now...

Regardless of the Election result, Australia must treat refugees with humanity and dignity, writes Dr Nilanthy Vigneswaran.   read now...

The current Federal Election campaign has seen the major parties battle on several issues, with the economy, defence cost of living expenses and housing affordability all taking centre stage. read now...

Unless the self-proclaimed “fixer” Prime Minister actually fixes the election, the chances of a Morrison Government being returned on Saturday appear slim. read now...

The "cookers" promise to be out tomorrow at polling booths across the country, writes Tom Tanuki. read now...

If Scott Morrison and the Coalition win government, the state of our democracy will be imperilled, writes Peter Henning. read now...

How much better will the economy be under Morrison and Frydenberg? read now...

With Election Day looming, the top issues reveal something about the state of the nation. read now...

Much of the media’s focus has been on the Independent candidates, but the Greens is likely to be the real winners. read now...

Don't pick the turnip! read now...

Scott Morrison has misinformed the public on Australia's levels of net migration and our struggling visa system. read now...

Shane Bazzi has won an appeal against Peter Dutton over a tweet that would have cost more than $35,000. read now...

In the sea of campaigns and corflutes, it is easy to be disillusioned with Australia's political landscape, writes Jane Salmon. read now...

Is Scott Morrison so delusional, so out of touch with reality, that he actually believes some of the nonsense he says? read now...

Scott Morrison has shown an aversion to appearing in ABC interviews, preferring to be represented by the right-wing mainstream media. read now...

Polls are showing a triumph within reach for Allegra Spender as the popularity of Independent candidates continues to grow. read now...

While many parties promise a federal ICAC, FIN is the only party truly committed to eradicating government corruption. read now...

With more countries exploring digital currencies, traditional cash could soon become a thing of the past. read now...

IA founder David Donovan was interviewed by David Barr about the lack of secularism in Australian politics. read now...

Scott Morrison has promised change if re-elected after bulldozing Australia to ruin over the last three years. read now...

In his pitch for re-election, Scott Morrison is hammering several talking points that the facts overwhelmingly refute. read now...

The news media’s framing of debates about wage rises reveals subtle yet powerful class bias is alive and well. read now...

An independent Victorian party is hoping to make a loud voice against the Government's profits-before-people attitude. read now...

Law reform and investigations into cases such as the Timor-Leste spy scandal are long overdue. read now...

Movement politics backing Independent candidates in traditional Liberal seats could be a decisive thing in the coming Election. read now...

Rather than immigration slowing the rate of population ageing, in 2019, the rate was accelerated. read now...

Another day, another anti-Albanese smear campaign. read now...

Various reforms to the Australian Human Rights Commission are required to better protect and realise human rights in Australia, writes Professor Ben Saul. read now...

With a possible change in government on the way, it's time to focus on the importance of arts policy in Australia. read now...

Our governments should be ashamed of decades of neglect in scaling back carbon and methane emissions. In the upcoming Federal Election, we must vote to erode monopoly politics. read now...

Scott Morrison’s attack on Anthony Albanese, claiming the necessity of “economic" credentials for holding high office, doesn't stand up according to public record. read now...

The war over wages has become central to public debate in the lead-up to the Federal Election, with Albanese advocating real wages could rise alongside productivity growth. read now...

With the following words, it seems kismet and James Ashby might finally have met. read now...

The establishment of a federal anti-corruption commission is shaping up to be a key election issue. read now...

After nine years of corruption, economic ruin and misogyny, the time has come to vote the Coalition out. read now...

Deception, exploitation and cover-up are messages Australia is sending to our foreign neighbours. read now...

... paying out on politicians who put themselves in the poo! read now...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) last week updated its report on excess deaths from COVID-19, highlighting an extraordinary correlation between deaths and authoritarian leaders. read now...

We are all, on average, about 3% poorer every year under the Morrison Government. Founder and publisher Dave Donovan debunks the "Coalition are better economic managers" theory. read now...

Greg Norman's proposed golf tournament would ultimately provide more cover for Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses, writes Dr Binoy Kampmark.  read now...

This Government seems to have broken a fundamental continuity that has defined the Coalition since Robert Menzies. read now...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is responsible for dismantling laws that maintain accountability in the fossil fuel industry. read now...

Telstra is hoping to improve its presence in the video streaming market with a stake in Fetch TV. read now...

The covering up of corruption by the media is highlighting the importance of independent journalism more than ever. read now...

With the mainstream media in the Coalition's pocket, it's an effective weapon in the upcoming Election. read now...

Fears that the cashless debit card will be implemented for all income recipients, including those on the aged pension, appear to originate from the Government’s own information and statements. read now...

With the shambles of Sunday night's debate, Lee Duffield raises the case for getting a serious debate on the ABC. read now...

Almost complete silence in the current election campaign on biodiversity loss raises very serious questions. read now...

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

The forthcoming Election offers hope for a major transformation of Australia’s society, even if not immediately. read now...

Jim Kable reviews a book by Arnie and Lee Duffield, filled with yarns about the Torres Strait, its people, pearling culture and the social change that followed the collapse of the shell industry. read now...

Instead of urging peace, most European nations have taken the opportunity to ramp up arms supplies, feed the war machine and boost the share prices of weapons manufacturers. read now...

Geo-coordinates showing services in paddocks and former rural bank sites wrongly listed as full-service branches — it’s time APRA checked the information banks are providing. read now...

Dr Stephen Strange must protect a young girl with the ability to cross universes from an evil being trying to usurp her power. read now...

The recent Reserve Bank of Australia interest rate rise won't make it any easier for the Morrison Government to get re-elected, writes Tarric Brooker.  read now...

It's election time and, accordingly, idiocy has hit new and ever more idiotic heights.  read now...

Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party wants to wipe all student debt. That "seems" awfully left-wing of them.  read now...

At the National Press Club on Tuesday, Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg made the serious and unsettling claim that the Australian Labor Party "are trying to sneak into government".  read now...

A recent spike in student applications from Nepal comes with a risk of students being left in immigration limbo. read now...

"I don't hold a nose, mate." read now...

The fact that a judicial decision to overrule Roe v Wade was widely expected does nothing to reduce the profound shockwaves now that it seems to be here. read now...

Following the controversy over his use of the word “blessed’, Prime Minister Morrison has submitted questions he wants asked, and his answers, for the next leaders' debate. read now...

Let me tell you about the most brazen assault on Australia’s secular democracy you have probably never heard about. read now...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg seems to be fighting a losing battle for his Melbourne seat of Kooyong. 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...

If you are the richest man in the world, you can afford $60 billion-plus to buy yourself a free speech outlet. read now...

The Morrison Government's election campaign is a disaster, but the real story is still the state of the press. read now...

Live export is in the spotlight again as animal welfare and public sentiment take second place to profits. read now...

Bias exhibited by the Murdoch press is having too much political influence and slowly degrading our democracy. read now...

There were some developments in March that re-confirm the Department of Home Affairs has lost control of the visa system. read now...

The Inclusion Foundation is at the centre of the evolving scandal involving figures from charities endorsing Josh Frydenberg's re-election campaign, writes Anthony Klan. read now...

Of all the post-election royal commissions proposed to deal with Coalition corruption, one has a chance of retrieving billions, read now...

In the lead-up to May's Federal Election poll, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a multi-million funding pledge to support Tasmania’s forestry industry. read now...

Despite a plague of public transport failures costing taxpayers billions, the PM has championed former NSW Minister for Transport Andrew Constance's Federal Election run. read now...

Rigid hospital policy and the pandemic are pushing mothers of bottom-first babies toward the operating table in Australia. read now...

... to convince us Huntsmans and Wolf Spiders are people too. read now...

An audit by Queensland’s Petroleum and Gas Inspectorate revealed discrepancies between company and government reporting and appears to play down problems including leaking wellhead equipment and coal seam gas well integrity. read now...

This year's Anzac Day has been politicised into a call-to-arms against China by our Coalition leaders. Founder and publisher Dave Donovan calls for war profiteers to be condemned. read now...

More Morrison Government "heavy lifting" on lying, rorting and taunting in the lead up to the Federal Election.  read now...

With his track record of economic mismanagement and political ineptitude, Scott Morrison needs to target those too young to know better. read now...

Matt Canavan has stirred controversy by declaring that coal has won priority over net-zero emissions targets. read now...

'Liberal Party — who else can you trust to weld a curry?' read now...

The major parties, abetted by large swathes of the media, are avoiding serious engagement with the reality of the climate emergency. read now...

The damage from corruption in the Federal Government is felt by the Australian taxpayer in the waste of tax dollars and the loss of a fair and democratic society. read now...

Visits to Honiara are part plea, part threat. Delegations are equipped with a note of harassment.  read now...

After years of inaction toward saving our koalas, another term for the Morrison Government would result in their extinction. read now...

With technology advancing at a rapid pace, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the human mind to understand and control it. read now...

When I saw Todd Sampson posing next to Blair Cottrell on social media, I knew that Sampson was yet another "intrepid" Australian media vulture trying to mine the far-right space for content.  read now...

From legal challenges to political subterfuge, welcome to the dramatic world surrounding election campaign signage. read now...

Is it any wonder that, despite promising to introduce one, the Morrison Government has voted against a federal integrity commission 31 times? read now...

In the past week of the election campaign, there has been much debate about the role of Temporary Protection Visas. read now...

The heads of Treasury and the Finance Department have just issued the most pessimistic Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook report. read now...

As a strategy, "divide and rule" has been most effective in the Middle East and may yet be utilised against Russia in the drive to exploit Siberia's untold wealth. read now...

It is eight years since Peter FitzSimons first published 'Gallipoli'. On the cusp of Anzac Day 2022, Michael Read's review of this book questions whether it still stands up. read now...

Julian Assange’s legal team announced “serious submissions” would be made to the UK Home Secretary, who will decide on the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to the U.S. read now...

As broadcast on the BBC 's World Service on 15 April, the policy of asylum seeker deterrence is just about moving a problem elsewhere.  read now...

We should not use public apathy towards Commonwealth Day and the current involvement of the royal family in the Commonwealth as reasons to walk away from it, writes David Muir. read now...

May 20 will mark 20 years of independence for Australia’s near neighbour, the nation of Timor-Leste. read now...

A young Viking prince is determined to fulfil a promise to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father. read now...