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IA celebrates 16 years of truth telling

Independent Australia turns 16 today, 24 June 2026.  
No, Pauline, 63 per cent of Australians do not use candles

Pollsters and newsrooms are culpable for Australia’s worst media failure in recent memory.  
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EDITORIAL: Pauline Hanson, Joh Bjelke-Petersen and the story of Independent Australia 

In a moving personal account, founder Dave Donovan explains why holding politicians like Joe ...  
Hanson and the media: an unholy alliance of the ruling class

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club speech has been widely reported as a glorious victory for ...  
Centrism and the illusion of independent thought

Many self-described centrists see themselves as independent thinkers, but their political views ...  
Newsrooms destroy life satisfaction while trying to report it

Constant lies about Australia’s economy weaken consumer confidence and social cohesion.  
Oh that's just Barnaby being Barnaby

Barnaby Joyce — a consistently inconsistent performative representative who, when it comes to ...  
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EDITORIAL: Why One Nation endangers Australia’s homeless — and everyone else

Does Australia have an illegal migrant problem, or do we have a compassion problem? Editor Mich ...  
Telcos: Australia's greatest infrastructure success under attack

Telecommunications have transformed Australians' lives, but they remain under attack from medi ...  
What Hanson should be asked at the National Press Club

As Pauline Hanson's National Press Club appearance nears, Dr Abul Rizvi prepares a list of ques ...  
News Corp jumps on One Nation bandwagon

News Corp’s growing support for One Nation follows a familiar playbook: protecting billionaire ...  
Flailing newsrooms flog fears of a fictional recession

Anxiety over Australia’s economy fomented by craven anti-Labor ‘reporters’ is unfounded.  
AFR Rich List offers a scorecard of Australian inequality

The Rich List reveals a system that concentrates wealth and narrows the pathways to economic ...  
AFR-king what!? Mad money mag grovels to Gina, bootlicks billionaires and promotes plutocracy

‘Billionaire barons have every right to use their money to influence us’, pontificated the ...  
The glaring problems with Labor’s dreadful, appalling, terrible 2026 Budget

Few observers in Australia’s media have had a kind word for last month’s controversial Budg ...  
The more powerful you are, the more unaccountable in media

Media neutrality is enabling powerful figures to normalise racism while ordinary people face ...  
Australia now has best-ever economy and worst-ever reporters

Coverage of the recent Federal Budget proves standards of economic reporting are at an all-time ...  
The real assault on aspiration isn’t tax reform: It’s inequality

When aspiration pathways are blocked, the political rhetoric of aspiration becomes detached from ...  

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