What do we want to stand for as a nation?

We’re a great nation. Let’s remind ourselves why that is

Compared with much of the world,everything “just works” in Australia,right? No,it doesn’t. It’s up to us to make sure it keeps working.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness

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We are living through an utterly lamentable era of history

We now live in a more extreme,violent and savage world than a decade ago. Liberal democracy is being confronted with something quite evil. Wider global conflict is far from impossible.

  • Dennis Glover
Jimmy Lai pictured in 2020.

HK media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted under Beijing-imposed national security law

The 78-year-old,an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and a vocal democracy campaigner,faces potential life imprisonment.

  • Lisa Visentin
The National Socialist Network rally outside the NSW parliament on November 8.

How to stop neo-Nazis forming a political party:This involves you,Albanese

These anti-democratic fringe-dwellers want to exploit democracy just so they can white-ant it from within. Here’s how democracy can fight back.

  • Rosalind Dixon
More than 60 members of the National Socialist Network attended the rally on Saturday.

Ignore these neo-Nazis at our peril:Evil left unchallenged will be normalised

They lie and hijack the ANZAC legend while defiling the memory of almost 40,000 Australians who died fighting Nazi Germany.

  • David Ossip
Zohran Mamdani appears on the Flagrant podcast,with comedian Andrew Schulz.

Trump made this the new political test – Mamdani just showed the left how to ace it

Two weeks before the New York election,Zohran Mamdani appeared on an edgy anti-woke podcast. His answers had the host in stitches – and drew 1.9 million views.

  • Nathan Taylor Pemberton
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The Whitlam sacking transfixed the nation.

‘He’s been sacked!’:How Gough Whitlam’s downfall caused chaos in an HSC class

A legendary northern beaches teacher couldn’t contain his shock.

  • Michael Dodd
Progressive Democrats are calling on the party’s Senate leader Chuck Schumer to resign.

Democrats are at war over ‘caving’ to Trump – and directing their rage at one man

When a small group of Democrats did a deal to end a record US shutdown,it unleashed internal chaos - and progressives reckon one person is to blame.

  • Michael Koziol
US President Donald Trump

US judge steps down to speak out against Trump,‘threat to democracy’

Judge Mark L. Wolf accused Trump of “targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors”.

  • Mattathias Schwartz
Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the mayoral election,Tuesday,Nov. 4,2025,in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

To me,an Australian person of colour,Mamdani’s New York victory is a game-changer

If it can happen there,it can happen anywhere. Right,Australia?

  • Satara Uthayakumaran