It’s one of the best known slogans in Australian political history. But it wasn’t always agreed on. For that matter, it still isn’t entirely. “We’re about keeping the bastards honest”, says Leonie ...

The global leader of the Exclusive Brethren sect — alleged to have run a secretive multi-million dollar campaign for Peter Dutton at last year’s federal election — claims he came into the role via a ...

One Nation has been selling racist stickers attacking Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe, depicting her as disheveled and on her hands and knees, along with the words “you stole my land”. In the sticker ...

The biggest funder of both One Nation and far-right lobby group Advance, multi-billionaire Gina Rinehart, is refusing to say whether the political entities should tone down their hateful rhetoric.

The fossil fuel playbook is hardly a secret. Refined by Big Tobacco and perfected over decades of corporate statecraft, the formula is familiar enough: manufacture doubt, then manufacture delay. We ...

Big Alcohol is using the same playbook as tobacco to thwart public policy, with the endless revolving door underpinning its "complex webs of influence", reports Professor Peter Miller.

The National Party has claimed the “major party model” is “broken” and is being “replaced” — raising speculation it is preparing to merge with Gina Rinehart’s One Nation. Nationals leader in the ...