Quantum roadkill? What happens next to Ed Husic’s pet project?
One of the Albanese government’s oddest ventures was joining with Queensland to bet $1 billion on a roughy running in the quantum computing stakes.
The Great Election Wash-Up | Scam of the Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34hZZExheSI Welcome to our post-election Scam of the Week the week of gloating, groaning, and clutching of pearls. Albo wins big, Libs implode, and somehow Tim Wilson is back. The Greens lose, Julian Hill declares compassion...
Charges dismissed, but activist denied rights. What’s the scam?
A judge has ruled that pasting a piece of paper on a controversial former governor’s statue is not protected by freedom of political communication
Final countdown: the 11 seats still too close to call
A prominent teal independent is among incumbents still waiting to learn if they will keep their seat in federal parliament. Monique Ryan's anxious wait for a result in her leafy inner-east Melbourne electorate of Kooyong will continue into Thursday as she faces a...
Albanese laps up Labor landslide as voters dump Dutton
Anthony Albanese says Australia has turned a corner as he celebrates an emphatic Labor landslide victory in the federal election. Large swings to Labor across the country has increased the party's majority in federal parliament, as the coalition vote plunges to...
Decision day as Albanese and Dutton face voter verdict
After five weeks of campaigning, billions of dollars in promises and countless marginal-seat visits by leaders, Australians head to the polls to decide the nation's political future. Millions of voters will cast a ballot on Saturday, as challenger Peter Dutton and his...
Economists slam major parties over timing of costings
Economists have criticised both major parties for releasing their budget costings just days before the federal election, arguing politicians need to do better. Labor released its costings on Tuesday, while the coalition followed on Thursday, just two days out from...
Quantum roadkill? What happens next to Ed Husic’s pet project?
One of the Albanese government’s oddest ventures was joining with Queensland to bet $1 billion on a roughy running in the quantum computing stakes.
Greenslide to fratricide: how the LNP shot themselves in the foot in Queensland
If the national result for the Coalition was a bloodbath, the electorate of Ryan was the crime scene. Stuart McCarthy on the veterans vote and how the Liberals imploded in the Federal Election.
Liberal Party China syndrome another campaign disaster
The Liberal Party ran a disastrous campaign in electorates with large Chinese-Australian populations, with swings against the Liberals far greater than the national average.
Election brinkmanship. Defence Dept mute on East Coast AUKUS bases
The location of Australia’s nuclear submarine bases on the East Coast is so sensitive that the Defence Department withheld a FOI response until 24 hours after the polls closed
The Great Election Wash-Up | Scam of the Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34hZZExheSI Welcome to our post-election Scam of the Week the week of gloating, groaning, and clutching of pearls. Albo wins big, Libs implode, and somehow Tim Wilson is back. The Greens lose, Julian Hill declares compassion...
Charges dismissed, but activist denied rights. What’s the scam?
A judge has ruled that pasting a piece of paper on a controversial former governor’s statue is not protected by freedom of political communication
Final countdown: the 11 seats still too close to call
A prominent teal independent is among incumbents still waiting to learn if they will keep their seat in federal parliament. Monique Ryan's anxious wait for a result in her leafy inner-east Melbourne electorate of Kooyong will continue into Thursday as she faces a...
Albanese laps up Labor landslide as voters dump Dutton
Anthony Albanese says Australia has turned a corner as he celebrates an emphatic Labor landslide victory in the federal election. Large swings to Labor across the country has increased the party's majority in federal parliament, as the coalition vote plunges to...
Decision day as Albanese and Dutton face voter verdict
After five weeks of campaigning, billions of dollars in promises and countless marginal-seat visits by leaders, Australians head to the polls to decide the nation's political future. Millions of voters will cast a ballot on Saturday, as challenger Peter Dutton and his...
Economists slam major parties over timing of costings
Economists have criticised both major parties for releasing their budget costings just days before the federal election, arguing politicians need to do better. Labor released its costings on Tuesday, while the coalition followed on Thursday, just two days out from...
Who’s Paying to Undermine Australian Democracy? Scam of the Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR1vEPh8-BY Foreign fossil fuel and Israel lobbyists are flooding the 2025 election campaign with cash and smear ads against the Greens, Teals and Labor. #auspol We investigate the shadowy players behind Advance Australia, Better...
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- Government ignores AUKUS ‘very high risk’ warning from the Admiral in charge April 29, 2025 The AUKUS Submarine Project faces huge risks, and the Cabinet knows. But as the Government ships $2B of taxpayers’ money to the US this year, with much more to follow,…
- Australia Islamic Caliphate? Dark money and the 11th hour Election propaganda blitzkrieg May 2, 2025 An 11th-hour Election 2025 blitzkrieg says the Greens enable extremists who "will do anything ... to establish a worldwide Islamic Caliphate."
- But for the women: Ali France, Peter Dutton, Ellie Smith in the big seat of Dickson May 1, 2025 In a matter of weeks, Peter Dutton has gone from putting everything into the Coalition’s flailing election campaign, in weeks, to fighting for his political life as the Member for…
- NSW antisemitism inquiry. Jewish organisations reject Zionist claims May 7, 2025 Submissions to the NSW antisemitism inquiry show large cohorts of Jewish people reject the attempts at conflating Zionism with Judaism and criticism of Israel with antisemitism.