Politics

The South Australian Liberal Party has frozen new memberships after an apparent Pentecostal takeover, but the move speaks to a vulnerability both feared and exploited in conservative politics.

A desire for Australia to become a top-10 weapons exporter is partly strategic and partly a rhetorical flourish.

An employment dispute has become a test case on climate denial, cancel culture and academic freedom.

As the government sets new ‘horizons’ for the vaccine rollout, questions are being asked about how decisions regarding supply were initially made.

While a laboratory leak may never be ruled out as the origin of Covid-19, the sources of that theory remain highly questionable.

Trials of the cashless welfare card are effectively removing an escape path for women who are trying to flee violent and abusive relationships.

Dismayed by huge profits made on rezoned land, a Liberal MP is pushing for the federal government to tax windfall gains at 75 per cent.

The Group of Seven summit in Cornwall has restated America’s priorities with regards to China, but the shift is not necessarily in Australia’s interests.

Taking the stand in his defamation case against Nine newspapers, former SAS soldier Ben Roberts-Smith says allegations he assaulted a girlfriend and committed war crimes have ‘ruined’ his life.

Australia is undertaking an extraordinary military expansion, but there are questions about what is being bought and the skills of the people doing the buying. This is part one of a two-part series.