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Green power means no work for Speedy

Reader Speedy on the price of green power - which has made South Australia’s electricity prices the highest of any state:

Bolt Report tomorrow

On Network 10 at 10am: How did the Budget blow so many billions so fast? Anthony Albanese joins us - the…

Labor’s Mundine endorses Abbott

Even a former Labor president now embraces Tony Abbott: FORMER Labor…

Turning off Gillard’s tears

Michael Gordon, long the Prime Minister’s go-to journalist, concedes t

All the news that’s fit to print

Business groups oppose increased company taxes. Disabled citizens support the national disability scheme. Big miners oppose increased mining taxes. Labor savages Coalition policies. Coalition targets Labor policies. Families oppose reduced childcare benefits. Show More Summary

Taxed by Big Government on their prayers

The Internal Revenue Service scandal - Big Government persecuting conservatives - just gets more amazing: During a House Ways and Means Committee…

A great prime minister, ruined by evil journalists

Journalist Kerry-Anne Walsh strikes me as tribal, and, of course, Left of centre. No…

Solidarity forever … gone

They’ve fractured their own party like they’ve fractured the country:

Thgat was not the time to stop Bess Price speaking

Reader Sisyphus alerts me to something symbolic - and sad - about the way Bess Price’s stunning speech below was stopped: Andrew,…

Bess Price: why this deadly silence when our women are dying?

Northern Territory MP Bess Price, one of a number of Aboriginal conservatives now being…

Lagan’s last excuse for saying Kiribati was drowning: some land isn’t nice to stand on

The Global Mail’s Bernard Lagan said global warming was drowning Kiribati: The waves are slowly…

Tips for Saturday, May 18

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“When did the public start insisting that all art be ‘beautiful’?”

Do not clink on the link if you are easily moderately offended. But we pay grants for this?…

Bolt Report on Sunday

How did the Budget blow so many billions so fast? Anthony Albanese joins us - the only Labor Minister ever to agree to…

President points, IRS takes out

Steve Kates says Barack Obama will be impeached. Big call, but then you read the Wall Street Journal’s…

Victim Of A 'Terrible Conspiracy'

Last week, Roseanne Beckett won her High Court appeal, but the NSW Attorney-General is resisting compensation. It's time to shine a spotlight on the Crown's conduct in this case, writes Wendy Bacon

So Where The Bloody Hell Aren't You?

Australia excised the mainland from the migration zone yesterday - but what does that actually mean? Immigration lawyer Michael Jones explains our disappointing contribution to international law

Inside Indonesia's Media Complex

The majority of Indonesia's media outlets are owned by 12 magnates, many of whom are also politicians. How does a journalist report on corruption when their boss is involved, asks Dina Indrasafitri

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