The crisis of the legacy parties
Tony Burke’s troubling interview on our migration future
Immigration Minister Tony Burke’s interview with Pawan Luthra on The Pawan Luthra Podcast has been doing the rounds on social media…
If Barnaby Joyce stays in the Lower House…
It was assumed Former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce would take the lead position on the New South Wales Senate…
The Liberals win Nepean, but have they lost the civil war?
Those who follow mainstream media might agree the result in Nepean is a glowing endorsement of Liberal Leader Jess Wilson,…
How a sexy plane upset the left
Leftwing politics, globally, is full of sexy planes. If you want to see a parade of private jets, attend a…
Convergence: the new shape of antisemitism
There’s a sense within Jewish communities that something cohesive, structured, and even more dangerous is taking shape: a multi-sourced hostility…
Here’s what Albo can do with his Medicare card
Have you ever had to sit through a Press Club address where the Prime Minister gets a rock star reception…
The crisis of the legacy parties
Over the last couple of years, there has been a noticeable trend of voters moving away from traditional ‘legacy’ parties…
Tony Abbott speaks in support of Liberal Party reform
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has spoken in support of Liberal Party constitutional reform during a powerful speech given to…
Labor’s spending left the RBA with no option
Australia’s inflation problem is back, and the RBA has responded with three interest-rate hikes in 2026 alone, lifting the cash…
An interim assessment of an interim report
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion released its Interim Report on April 30, 2026, less than four months…
The quiet redefinition of ‘vaccine’
A lonely band of five senators sat on the ‘Noes’ side of the Senate chamber during the government’s pre-Easter legislative…
Two little girls are dead
When the history of this miserable, lazy, reckless, and disgusting government is written, two names deserve to stand out in…
Stupid, really stupid – evidence is in
The mother of all unchallenged false premises, that fossil fuel emissions drive global warming, has delivered a bastard of policy…
The torch of jazz has been relit by its prodigies
Growing up in Toronto, I was fortunate to live in a city that loved jazz. I knew, even as a…
Toxic compassion: a warning from healthcare
Compassion is one of the most cherished virtues in medicine. It is the impulse that draws many of us into…
The firm hand of government could do with a smack
We seek to become a land of ordinary civil free speech, where people go about their business earning an income…
The return of the trades
The dignity of work has long been a tenet of the West, encapsulating the very quintessence of the human experience.…
What did I miss?
Ah, the lucky country… While we try to bring you the week in fast forward, Labor was hell-bent on putting…
The report that won’t name the problem
The interim report of the antisemitism Royal Commission, led by Virginia Bell and delivered to Governor-General Sam Mostyn, was always…
What is a woman? What is the NDIS…
If a group of leaders cannot define a man or a woman, how confident are we in their ability to…
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner loses again – A victory for free speech | Celine Baumgarten S3 Ep 18
Celine Baumgarten (Celine Against the Machine) has celebrated her SECOND victory against the eSafety Commissioner. This wasn’t only a personal…
Did Donald Trump conquer the world with witty insults? | Joel Gilbert S3 Ep 17
Did Donald Trump conquer the world with witty insults? I’m joined by Joel Gilbert to discuss the genius of humour…
Digital tyranny or ‘child safety’? 😵 & the bitcoin revolution | Efrat Fenigson S3 Ep 16
When Australia’s Under 16 social media ban started locking adult political writers out of #Substack – it was just the…
Encouraging assassinations
Well, the good news is that there is now an opening for a substitute teacher in Torrance, California. Cole Allen,…
Taylor tinkers with tough talk on immigration
In Angus Taylor’s recent keynote speech on immigration, he repeatedly cited the experience of the UK and Europe as an…
If it’s bad here, it’s worse in the mother country
Just as I was ready to move on from the creeping civilianisation of military justice, the news out of the…
World sags under record debt
Howard Marks, the co-founder of US-based Oaktree Capital Management, became a billionaire by investing in distressed debt. When giving talks,…
Zero debt
It was an event that was largely ignored by the mainstream media. On 21 April, it was the two-decade anniversary…
Australia is trying to drink its way to fiscal sobriety
Australia is in the longest run of falling per capita output since the Australian Bureau of Statistics began publishing the…
How feminism demoralises young women
In 1983, Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB agent and defector, delivered a chilling lecture on ideological subversion. Speaking at UCLA,…
Once a jolly jihadist
This week, we learned that the government has spent $318 million investigating war crimes allegedly committed by the approximately 230…
This Green candidate thinks the UK is a ‘terrorist state’
A Green candidate at tomorrow’s election has called the UK a ‘terrorist state,’ blamed Jeremy Corbyn’s demise on the ‘web…
Polanski squirms on Red Cross claims
Zack Polanski is no stranger to reinventing himself. He’s been an actor, a hypnotherapist capable of enlarging breasts, a nightclub…
Kemi Badenoch: ‘I’m the one holding Labour to account’
It is 11:26 a.m. and Kemi Badenoch is on her second drink of the day. The Tory leader is out…
How the Venice Biennale imploded over Israel
The who’s who of the international art world meet every two years at the Venice Biennale to hobnob, clink champagne…
Trump’s missile cut has left Germany exposed
It has been a choppy 12 months for transatlantic relations since Friedrich Merz was sworn in as chancellor of Germany…
The slow death of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
For the past few years, woke has been on life support. Back in 2020, police officers knelt for Black Lives…
Russia is losing its grip on Africa
Russia’s military reputation in Africa was built in Kidal, Northern Mali. Late last month, it was buried in the same…
Will Arts Council England finally stop funding hate?
It took the stabbing of two Jews in Golders Green to bring Arts Council England’s decade of funding hate to…
Starmer to 2024 intake: back me or else
With two days to go before voters take to the ballot box, leadership manoeuvring, that perennial Westminster pastime, has slipped…
Why is the teachers’ union targeting ICE, not education?
Randi Weingarten is using mafia tactics to bully Target into denouncing immigration enforcement by ICE. As president of the American…
Is the Iran ceasefire crumbling?
Is the fragile Iran war ceasefire over? It would appear so, with American and Iranian forces exchanging fire in the…
The Green candidate who thinks Iran should bomb the White House
A Green candidate in this week’s council elections says the White House should be blown up, described Hamas taking ‘filthy…
The row over English becoming an official language of New Zealand
Parliamentarians in New Zealand have been limbering up for an oddly unedifying debate over what ought to be the most…
What they don’t tell you about Christmas in New Zealand
‘I still think New Zealand the most beautiful country I have ever seen,’ Agatha Christie marvelled in 1922. Evidently she’s…
What will Jacinda Ardern do next?
When I first met Jacinda Ardern in the early 2010s, the notion that the young MP with the toothy smile…
The de-Wokification of New Zealand’s education system
The conservative coalition government of New Zealand came to office promising to wind back an enormous, government-run system of ‘Woke’…
My night under fire at the White House correspondents’ dinner
Skill of the characterisation
Yasmina Reza is one of the most dazzling playwrights alive because she creates sweepingly funny bits of theatre (masterfully translated…
Scrupulous fidelity
Isn’t it fascinating how much we adapt works of literature? 150 years ago someone would have had a fair chance…
Like him or loathe him
It’s cheering to hear very promising reports of Barrie Kosky’s production of Siegfried at Covent Garden suggesting that the Melbourne-born…
Cruelties of popular culture
Ethan Hawke is an extraordinary figure. He has made straightforward Hollywood classics like Training Day but he also comes out…
Were Britain’s postwar dons just having too much fun?
A history of academic life stands and falls by the number and quality of its anecdotes. On this count, Colin…
How Syria’s dream of freedom ended in further repression
Anand Gopal has form when it comes to war. In Afghanistan, distrustful of President Bush’s ‘good vs evil’ and ‘you’re…
The doyen of the France’s culinary scene is unmasked
For some reason it took nearly a decade for the news of a revolution in the restaurants of France to…
A foolproof way of predicting the future
A peek at the horoscope, puzzling the meaning of dreams, wearing lucky socks, having a method for choosing lottery numbers…
In praise of uncertainty over hollow conviction
When I met Brian Dillon in February 2023, he seemed to have a lot on his mind. We had arranged…
The land of missed opportunity: The Left and the Lucky, by Willy Vlautin, reviewed
Were arriving aliens to be introduced to the concept of the USA via the work of Willy Vlautin, they would…
The art of printmaking in all its glorious complexity
Do you know your aquatint from your drypoint? Your intaglio from your lithograph? The appearance of any one finished print…
A meditation on reality: Transcription, by Ben Lerner, reviewed
Near the beginning of Ben Lerner’s new novel the unnamed narrator recalls visiting an exhibition of botanical models made by…