The 10 Hottest Destinations Australians Are Booking for 2026
Australians have always had a strong appetite for travel. Whether escaping winter, chasing surf breaks or exploring new cultures, overseas trav...
Times Australia Today
10 Holiday & Adventure Trip Suggestions for Australians Looking for a Great Escape
With Australia’s backyard offering some of the world’s most epic landscapes — from rugged coastlines and lush rainforests to o...
What is bias against gas for domestic use and industry doing to Australia?
For most of the last half-century, natural gas has been sold to Australians as the “clean, cheap” fuel: blue flames under the ...
In What Ways Do Australians in Rural or Regional Areas Differ From Capital City Residents?
Australia is a nation defined not just by its cities but by its vast distances, sweeping landscapes, and thousands of towns sc...
Labor’s policies, backed by the Greens, are not the cause of the inflation crisis
They have made Australia’s inflation higher, stickier, and longer-lasting than it needed to be. Australia’s cost-of-living cris...
Australia Explained
What Is Weighing on the Minds of Australians Today? A Nation’s Concerns and the Growing Demand for Competent Leadership
Across Australia—from capital cities to regional towns, mining communities to coastal tourism hubs—a common sentiment is takin...
Australians Are Demanding Action From Their Leaders as Inflation and Household Costs Bite Harder
Across Australia, from outer-suburban mortgage belts to regional towns and coastal communities, a common frustration is building...
The World Is Watching: How Albanese’s Social Media Ban Is Being Received Abroad
When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed Australia would proceed with a nationwide ban on social media access for childr...
Australia’s Youth Social Media Ban Is In Effect — And Young People Might Go Back to Using Their Phone to Stay in Touch
Australia’s landmark youth social-media ban has officially come into force, marking one of the most significant regulatory shi...
Australia & The World
The 10 Hottest Destinations Australians Are Booking for 2026
Australians have always had a strong appetite for travel. Whether escaping winter, chasing surf breaks or exploring new cultures...
Iran Crisis Shockwaves: How the Conflict Is Affecting Oil Prices, Global Markets and Australia
A strategic analysis by TheTimes.au The unfolding crisis involving Iran is not just a regional military confrontation—it is a g...
Money & Living
Fuel prices – Australians feel trapped as petrol and diesel costs continue to bite
For many Australians, the weekly trip to the petrol station has become one of the most frustrating reminders of the rising cost ...
Where Negative Gearing Changes Would Hit Hardest: Suburbs, Property Types and Investor Strategy
If proposed reforms to negative gearing proceed, the national housing market will not move uniformly. Policy shifts rarely affec...
Retailing in Australia: does the average Joe Blow start-up stand a chance against mega-groups?
Walk down any Australian high street or scroll your phone for 30 seconds and the pattern is obvious: the big get bigger. In gr...
First Home Buyers: Back in the Day a Single-Income Family Could Buy a Home. What Went Wrong?
There was a time in Australia — not even half a century ago — when a family with one steady income could reasonably aspire to ...
Australia’s Cost-of-Living Squeeze Enters a New Phase — Relief Promised, Pressure Persists
Australia’s cost-of-living crisis is no longer a sudden shock — it is becoming a slow-burn structural challenge that is reshap...
The Cost-of-Living Crisis Isn’t Temporary — It’s Australia’s New Economic Setting
For much of the past two years, Australians have been told to be patient. Inflation would ease. Interest rates would stabilis...
The Property Market
Renting in Australia
The New Rules, Pressures and Realities of a Market Under Extreme StressAustralia’s rental market is now one of the tightest an...
Why Australia cannot build enough homes
THE REAL REASONS BEHIND THE CONSTRUCTION SHORTFALL Australia’s housing crisis has one fundamental cause: we do not build enou...
Australia's Housing Crisis Explained
Why the System Broke — And What Might Fix It Australia is living through the most severe housing shortage in its modern histo...
Political Explainers
A New Liberal Leadership Team Is in Place — What Are the Pressing Issues Australians Want the Opposition to Address?
Australia’s federal political landscape has entered another reset phase. With Angus Taylor now installed as Liberal leader, the ...
Some Call the Liberal–National Coalition a Shambles. It Is Actually a Renewal — an Evolution to Suit Present Times
For months now, political commentary has been saturated with a single, convenient word to describe the federal Coalition: “sha...
The Leadership of the Liberal Party: Where Are We This Friday?
This Friday, the Liberal Party finds itself in a familiar but deeply uncomfortable place: leader intact, authority fragile, di...
Federal Parliament at a Crossroads: Albanese’s Laws, a Fractured Opposition and the Rise of the Teals
Federal parliament is not merely busy — it is unsettled. The opening months of 2026 have revealed a deeper story than the pass...
Why Albanese Is Recalling Both Houses of Parliament
Australia’s political calendar has been abruptly reshaped by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has taken the rare step of r...
Who Is Asking Albanese for a Royal Commission — and Why?
Australia is in the midst of a growing national debate over whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should convene a federal r...