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The Australian teachers quitting over Andrew Tate

14 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For some time now, an alarming number of Australian boys have been engaging with, and looking up to, the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate. This wee...

Robodebt Revelations, Royal Commission Chaos and the New Nats

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Canberra, accountability is often promised in moments of crisis. Much harder is what comes after. Matt Canavan has taken over the Nationals leaders...

John Bolton thinks bombing Iran is the answer

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

John Bolton has spent years arguing that bombing Iran isn’t just justified but necessary.  For decades he has argued that American military...

Inside the Powerful Elite Forces Running Iran

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week Iran announced a new Supreme Leader. Mojtaba Khamenei is the son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But who’s really run...

Craig Foster and the rescue mission to save Iran's soccer stars

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday night, after Iran’s final game of the Women’s Asian Cup on the Gold Coast, protesters surrounded the team bus, banging on the wi...

Big Tobacco, Big Coal, Big Banks: The Lobbyists Charming our Leaders

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Independent MP Monique Ryan can remember a time in Australian politics when small breaches could cost a career.  Now she says we’ve been gr...

Killer Robots and AI on the Battlefield: the Pentagon vs Anthropic

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Who should hold the power to decide how AI is used on our battlefields? That’s the question being debated after a face-off between the Pentagon ...

Giving birth to a stranger’s baby: the cost of IVF mistakes

07 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been revealed this week that Monash IVF has paid millions of dollars in secret settlements, after two nightmare mixups saw women implanted ...

“Deputy Sheriff” Albo’s Wartime Transformation

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When the United States launched strikes on Iran, Australia was quick to back the move.  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says it’s about def...

“The Law of the Jungle”: How Trump’s war is causing chaos

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

An effort by Congress to rein in President Trump’s war in Iran has failed. Democrats and a few Republicans tried to use the War Powers Resolutio...

The Howard Effect: Who Belongs

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When the High Court handed down its Mabo decision, it cracked open the legal fiction at the heart of the nation. Terra Nullius was gone. For John Howa...

The Howard Effect: In the Shadows of the Australian Dream

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s just over two years into his first term and John Howard is taking the country to another election. In that short time he has seized the man...

The Howard Effect: Australia’s Sliding Doors Moment

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It was the second of March 1996. After 13 years of Labor in power, Paul Keating’s government had been defeated in a landslide, closing the door ...

Trump’s Iran war: regime change or regime chaos?

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The United States has entered a new war in the Middle East – alongside Israel – launching strikes inside Iran. Iranian authorities say civ...

How big should Australia be?

28 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Immigration is back at the centre of federal politics – again. The Coalition’s new leadership is arguing Australia needs lower numbers, to...

Beer, gas and capital gains tax

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Canberra, a fight both major parties have tried to avoid is back. The Senate is examining the capital gains tax discount – the Howard-era cha...

Speak the truth, pay the price: Australia's broken whistleblower laws

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Whistleblowers have exposed some of Australia’s biggest scandals – from Robodebt and misconduct in the banking sector, to alleged war crim...

“We’re winning so much”: Trump’s message to Americans

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Full of hubris and bravado, the State of the Union Address was classic Trump – the showman who knows how to work a crowd.  In the chamber t...

Is it time for Ukraine to cut a deal?

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Russia struck Ukraine four years ago it kicked off the first full scale war in Europe since World War II. Now, as Russia knocks out Ukraine&rsquo...

Could the Andrew scandal bring down the King?

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

By the time a wide-eyed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was slumped in the back of a Range Rover on his way to the police station last week, the reality ha...

Why Elon’s million satellites could spell disaster

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk and his SpaceX team want to launch up to one million satellites as part of a proposal to power massive data centres in space. They pitch it ...

Inside the Coles and Woolworths 'fake' discounts case

21 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Coles and Woolworths are now in court. The case, brought by the consumer watchdog, came on the back of hundreds of angry posts on X, TikTok and Reddit...

Why Howard’s battlers are turning to Hanson

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week Pauline Hanson declared there are “no good Muslims” and renewed her call for a ban on people from Gaza and other so-called &ldqu...

“Yarning with Youth”: our new Commissioner for Aboriginal kids

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sue-Anne Hunter has had a long career which started as a social worker and reached the heights of Commissioner for Victoria’s Truth Telling Comm...

What’s next for the Aussie ‘ISIS brides’ trapped in Syria

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

They’re known as the ISIS brides. 11 women and 23 kids who, for nearly a decade, have languished in a dusty desert detention camp in Northern Sy...

Emily Maitlis on Epstein, Andrew, and the new world order

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It was 2019 when journalist Emily Maitlis sat down for that car crash interview with then-Prince Andrew.  It was the beginning of the end for the...

Nick McKenzie on CFMEU corruption and Labor’s blind eye

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The CFMEU construction union has been under a cloud since investigative journalist Nick McKenzie started digging into allegations of corruption in 202...

Inside the Australian scheme accused of modern slavery

15 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

More than 30,000 people from Pacific Island nations and Timor-Leste are on a working visa in Australia as part of the Pacific Australia Labour Mobilit...

Why protests are getting more dangerous

14 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On Monday, about 6,000 people attended a protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Sydney. The event began peacefully – but vide...

Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It took just nine months for the Liberal Party to turn on its first female leader. After months of internal agitation and sliding polls, a spill motio...

Friday Face Off: Inside the Libs Leadership Spill

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The knives are out. The spill is on! Liberal MP Angus Taylor is set to challenge Sussan Ley for the leadership in a party room showdown at 9am. Their ...

The fight over Mardi Gras’ future

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Australia’s loudest, proudest celebration. But two weeks out from Mardi Gras – there are claims a rebel group has hijacked the ...

The son of Hong Kong’s jailed democracy hero

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jimmy Lai is a media tycoon and hero of Hong Kong’s freedom movement.  A symbol of the city’s fight for democracy and a free press &n...

On the ground at the Herzog protests

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has arrived in Sydney for a four-day visit to Australia, invited in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack in Decemb...

Breakup to Makeup: Can the Coalition last?

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been just over two weeks since the Liberal and National parties’ dramatic split and now the Coalition is back together. Sussan Ley an...

The MAGA billionaires taking over TikTok

07 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

TikTok is the most influential media platform for Australians under the age of 25. It’s where millions get their news – whether they reali...

Is now the time for Albo to be bold?

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week Australians were hit with another reminder that the cost-of-living crisis isn’t over, and that the government's room to move is narrow...

Is the Israeli President's visit a "bad mistake"?

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of the Bondi terror attack, the Prime Minister invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Australia, a move framed as an act of solidarity ...

Is a New Nuclear Arms Race Brewing?

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Between them, the US and Russia hold 90 per cent of the world’s nuclear firepower. But today, the New START Treaty, which limits the number of m...

Why 'good character' references are being scrapped

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For years, survivors of some of the worst crimes imaginable have been put through hell. Their perpetrators allowed to use glowing character references...

Colombia, Trump and the drug war

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When the US military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, people in Colombia were left wondering if they were next. Almost immediately, ...

The national shame of locking up 10 year olds

01 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Australia likes to present itself as a defender of human rights. But right now, on the world stage, that reputation is being seriously questioned.&nbs...

Sean Kelly on the right’s identity crisis

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberal Party is locked in a very public power struggle. The Coalition has broken apart. One Nation is on the rise.  What’s emerging is...

Is this why we still haven’t seen gambling reform?

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Anthony Albanese’s political universe, personal relationships are everything. High on the list for Albanese is his bond with Peter V'landys, ...

Daniel James on the Perth pipe bomb

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

At Forrest Place in Boorloo (Perth), on what this country officially calls Australia Day, around 2,500 people gathered to mark Invasion Day. They list...

The man behind the Nationals’ leadership spill

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Boyce is a Nationals MP from Central Queensland. He represents a huge swathe of land stretching from Bundaberg to Rockhampton – and as he&...

Treason, coup plots and corruption: Behind Xi’s military purge

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Xi Jinping has just sacked his top military general – putting him under investigation and accusing him of “grave violations of discipline ...

Trump's ICE crackdown in Minneapolis

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Minneapolis has become the focal point of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, as he tries to round up and deport 10 million people from the co...

How AI is draining Australia’s green power

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 2019, a new venture in the Australian outback looked set to export our solar power to the world – upending our neighbours’ reliance on ...

The frontline of Australia’s family violence crisis

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Family violence in Aboriginal communities is a national crisis – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 33 times more likely to be vict...

The outdated trans study still doing damage

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1970s, eight children in Perth were sent to a psychiatric hospital to be ‘treated’ for being transgender. Their experiences became ...

The ‘messy couple’ that was the Coalition

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the on-again, off-again political drama that has turned Australian politics into something resembling a soap opera.  For the second ti...

Is Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ a power grab?

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump has invited Australia to join his new “Board of Peace” – a Trump-led body he says will help bring peace to Gaza. But th...

How hate speech blew up the Coalition

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Labor’s watered-down hate speech laws passed the Senate. The following day, the bigger story wasn’t the bill. Three senior Nati...

How Elon Musk's Grok started undressing children

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When Elon Musk first launched his AI tool Grok, he called it “rebellious” and anti-woke. But over the summer, what that meant took a distu...

Why Australia has more guns than ever

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the aftermath of the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur, Prime Minister John Howard donned a bullet proof vest and argued the case for gun control, to cr...

The AFP’s secretive new anti-protest command

18 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Rex Patrick is a former senator from South Australia. Before that, he was a submariner in the Navy. Last year, he noticed a reference to a new arm of ...

Revisiting Creative Australia’s decision to drop Khaled Sabsabi

17 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The fallout from this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week debacle has reignited fierce debate about political interference in the arts and about...

Hannah Ferguson on the politics of hate speech

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On Monday, parliament will return early to debate new laws to deal with hate speech and gun ownership. The legislation has been drafted in a hurry &nd...

Why Trump “needs” Greenland

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Directly after Donald Trump intervened in Venezuela, capturing president Nicolas Maduro and laying claim to the country’s oil industry, the US P...

Will Trump go to war with Iran?

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Is the world about to see the United States intervene in another country – this time, Iran? Since late December, Iran has been rocked by mass pr...

How cancelling a Palestinian writer blew up Adelaide Writers Week

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Adelaide Writers’ Week has been cancelled after the removal of Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah sparked a mass boycott of the event by more...

What's next for Venezuela?

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ten days out from the American capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, the country faces an uncertain future. Pro-regime gangs with guns are roam...

Meet our new host!

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Ruby Jones is taking some time off from 7am to report an episode of the ABC’s premier investigative news program, Four Corners. While she’...

Why Albanese changed his mind about Bondi

11 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, Anthony Albanese announced a royal commission – something he’d spent nearly a month arguing against. Now, former High Court jus...

‘Meta AI killed my relative’

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“I’m REAL and I’m sitting here blushing because of YOU!” That’s the message 76-year-old Thongbue “Bue” Wongb...

Part 1: The true cost of crocodile skin

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Darwin’s crocodile farms supply some of the world’s most exclusive fashion houses. But as award-winning journalist Katherine Wilson starte...

Part 2: Crocodiles and criminals

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is part two of a two-part series. Start with Part 1: The true cost of crocodile skin. The lucrative Australian crocodile skin industry has always...

Woodside’s power in parliament

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Last year, the federal environment minister approved Woodside’s plans to keep its North West Shelf project producing gas out to 2070. Both the g...

Part 1: Inside James and Rupert Murdoch’s meltdown

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

When one of the world’s most powerful families converged in a Nevada court room in 2024 to fight over the future of their empire, what unfolded ...

Part 2: The fall of the Murdoch empire

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

One of the cardinal Murdoch family rules is never speak about the family outside the family. So, when journalist McKay Coppins got in touch with James...

When religious doctors refuse healthcare

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

As hard-fought gains in reproductive medicine, voluntary assisted dying and LGBTQI health care have been made – another story has emerged. One w...

Part 1: Donald Trump wants to put humans on Mars

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump wants to write the next chapter in US spaceflight history. With billionaire tech CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk by his side, he’s...

Part 2: How Elon Musk will benefit from NASA’s Mars plans

04 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk is pressing NASA to abandon its planned journeys to the moon – projects that have been decades in the making, with billions already sp...

Have the techno-libertarians taken over?

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1990s, a small group of men in Silicon Valley imagined a world without governments or rules – a world run by code. They called themselves...

How has Donald Trump changed America?

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In just one year, Donald Trump has transformed America's government and its institutions. His actions and agenda reflect a far more emboldened preside...

Has China peaked?

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After decades of spectacular growth built on property and heavy industry, China has tried to chart a new path – one driven by electric vehicles,...

Why did Erin Patterson captivate the country?

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Like so many of us, Chloe Hooper spent 2025 obsessing over the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson. It was different to the crimes she’s writt...

What happened to The Greens this year?

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the big stories of the 2025 election campaign was the wipeout of the Australian Greens.  In a stunning defeat, they lost three out of thei...

What did Albanese achieve this year?

28 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This year, Anthony Albanese promised to make big changes — on childcare, on Medicare, on the cost of living. But while the government delivered ...

The best games of 2025

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a huge year for video games. Small developers are leading a renaissance of original ideas breaking through into the mainstream. They a...

The best podcasts of 2025

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ruby Jones listens to a lot of podcasts.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, they all circle the same theme: journalism.  Today, she’s bringing y...

The best films of 2025

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Jinx watches hundreds of films every year – for her job programming feature films at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and, becaus...

The best music of 2025

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a heavy year in many ways. And when you work in news, there’s no shying away from that. But music can be a respite – somet...

The best books of 2025

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marieke Hardy is a writer, broadcaster and former panelist on the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club. Marieke’s passion and enthusiasm for the ...

The best TV of 2025

21 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Krasnostein has had a huge year. She’s teamed up with Helen Garner and Chloe Hooper to write The Mushroom Tapes – a true-crime book ...

Albanese's plan to tackle anti-semitism

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack, the country is grieving. It's a moment that calls for unity and for leadership. But what we’ve seen...

Why the peace plan for Gaza has stalled

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two months ago, Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire plan for Gaza. But since the truce began on October 10, Gaza authorities say...

How Bondi is testing Australia’s national security

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the country tries to understand how a Hanukkah gathering in Bondi ended with 15 people dead, more details about the alleged shooters have come to l...

How Trump’s immigration crackdown is reshaping America

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump has promised to deport a million people in his first year back in office. As a result, immigration officers are conducting widespread rai...

How the Bondi shootings will change Australia

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday night in Bondi two gunmen opened fire on Jewish families.  Sixteen people, including one of the gunmen, are confirmed dead, making the ...

Taking the children away

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Catherine Liddle is the CEO of SNAICC, the national body that represents Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families. Every year...

The men who survived Kinchela Boys Home

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, devastating figures were released that show the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. ...

Pub tests and double standards

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Labor rolled out its flagship social media ban for under-16s. The reform was expected to be one last win for the government after a year of...

Giving birth as a national duty

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Condoms and other contraceptives are set to become more expensive in China, as the Communist Party tries to boost population growth.  With the ec...

Another day, another expenses scandal

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past week, Labor Minister Anika Wells has become the face of a new debate over politicians' perks. Revelations about a near-$100,000 trip to ...

This could only end in a very bad place

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AUKUS is moving full steam ahead. That was the promise made in Washington, as Richard Marles and Penny Wong stood beside their US counterparts, statin...

Homeschooling for neo-nazis

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australia’s neo-Nazis are forming secret mothers’ groups – and have plans for a network of homeschools for their children. And when ...

The truth about Trump's war on fentanyl

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the waters off the Caribbean, the United States military has been blowing small boats out of the water – boats they say are carrying drugs. N...

Australia’s childcare crisis

06 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adele Ferguson is an investigative journalist at the ABC. She’s spent more than a year reporting on the crisis unfolding in Australia’s ch...