With Australia’s national security threatened by hostile forces and families suffering economic stress, here are winning policies for the federal election, based on polling conducted for the National Civic Council and the Australian Family Association. The polling was conducted by Sexton Marketing in February from a representative sample of 1,200 Australians. Australia’s vulnerable supply chains have been exposed and disrupted by the pandemic,…

Turning Red is a beautiful and cheeky Pixar film about a young girl becoming a young woman and all the chaos that entails. It’s not really for kids – although they probably wouldn’t understand any of the adult references anyway – and boys may find it “difficult”. I thought it brilliant when I first watched it but have been delaying my review. I’m…

Josh Frydenberg’s 2022 Budget has been swallowed and digested faster than any Budget in living memory, with election speculation and ugly politics overtaking the traditional period of selling the benefits. A $250 cash handout to pensioners and welfare recipients; a one-off $420 cost-of-living tax offset for low-income earners, and a six-month respite for motorists struggling with $2-a-litre fuel prices were the headline acts…