The Reserve Bank’s numbers shout that it made a mistake not cutting interest rates in April, as well as yesterday. The forecast drop in real wages underlines the need, Michael Pascoe writes. I hope ...

Information is the currency of power in a democracy. It’s what allows informed debate and scrutiny of Government. So, how is transparency shaping up in the 48th Parliament? Rex Patrick takes a look.

A public hospital sold off to a private operator, controlled in the Cayman Islands, and now, after years of cost-cutting, legal threats, and a damning Auditor General’s report, the NSW public is ...

An 11th-hour Election 2025 blitzkrieg claims the Greens are enabling extremists who “will do anything in their power to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate.” Wendy Bacon and Yaakov Aharon ...

Poor old Donald Trump thinks the United States still dominates the global economy, but the ‘stable genius’ has lost touch with reality and is a couple of decades out of date, writes Michael Pascoe.

With the election looming, the promises of the major parties can only be kept if enough tax is collected to pay for them, including from those big corporations that avoid paying. A new search tool ...

The native timber industry has been dealt a blow by the High Court as it kept the door open for environmental groups to prosecute law-breaking loggers. Wednesday’s decision, centring on a battle to ...

A so-called Australian immigration crisis is a central election issue, but it’s based on misconceptions easily debunked by any examination of the evidence. Immigration experts Fethi Mansouri and ...

Former Lendlease lawyer Tony Watson saved the country $300m as whistleblower to the biggest tax fraud in Australian history. Now he’s lost his house. Michael West reports. If you have a few bob spare, ...

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Are app messages ‘Commonwealth records’? If so, why do Canberra’s elite routinely delete them via Signal and WhatsApp? Andrew Gardiner reports. Canberra politicians and bureaucrats could be breaking ...

Where to store nuclear waste from AUKUS submarines is a decision which will impact us for millennia, but they are going to extraordinary lengths to hide it from the public. Rex Patrick reports.