Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: Australia has not ‘moved left’
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has responded to Paul Kelly’s recent article in The Australian where he asserts that Australia has moved to…
No, Albanese and Wong did not bring peace
Foreign Minister Penny Wong is copping flak today for what some of her peers are calling an attempt to ‘claim…
Home buyers furious at 5 per cent deposit disaster
Mass migration, encouraged by the Albanese government, has created a housing crisis in Australia. There are too many people, arriving…
Dan Tehan fell in love with nuclear on US tour
Buried in the news cycle is Dan Tehan’s surprise fawning over US nuclear power. There’s a bit of ‘once bitten,…
Why are they still protesting for Gaza?
The President of the United States is in the process of negotiating the finer details of an historic ceasefire between…
Think before you post
Remember when Britain used to lecture other countries about democracy and free speech? Our leaders wagged their fingers at China,…
Time for a rethink of car manufacturing in Australia
In 2005, as a fledgling academic navigating the historical waters of industry policy, I sat across from my PhD supervisor,…
The Labor Party are genius campaigners
The Labor Party is masterful at post-election victory lap, wheeling out their star players and coach to provide extensive commentary…
The net zero myth
The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker are all talking about Net Zero. This condition exists when all the…
Australia solved civilisation’s problems
Balanced parliamentary debate was the vision of the first elected head of government in Australia, James Hurtle Fisher, Mayor of…
Is Palestine a legal state?
The great political theorists in history had differing conceptions of the fundamental idea of ‘the state’. Once the modern nation…
Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
‘Charlie’ is what you call a friend named Charles when you know him well. Before September 10, 2025, hardly anyone…
Charlie Kirk and the rise of the new Jacobins
History sometimes turns on a single moment. Such a moment happened in 404 AD at the Colosseum in Rome. The…
How Australia’s green rush lost its way
When conservationist Steven Nowakowski quietly began mapping Australia’s renewable energy developments four years ago, few imagined the scale of what he…
Bananas, bureaucrats, and Albanese’s social media ban
To determine how bad Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s social media ban is, look at who is applauding it… At the…
AI and the future of the Australian legal system
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been ‘the buzzword’ since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022. Amongst concerns raised with the…
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me an EV?
My car hasn’t been travelling very well this year. OK, it is nearly 13 years old, but it has been…
Marrying the mirror
The English journalist Matthew Syed has written about the quiet tribalism that seeps into parts of modern Britain – the…
Victoria going Caracas
The time has come when all Australians, not just Victorians, are forced to pay for the Andrews and Allan governments’…
Dazed Libs should heed their own history
Can things get any worse for the Liberal party? It’s lost voters and members, and recent leaders have failed to…
Lawyers and legacy media
Do readers recall the incident three years ago when someone tried to kill the US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh?…
Climate corruption
After lodging my submission, as punishment for being on the wagon, I read the other 168 submissions to the Orwellian-sounding…
Protest the protests
At time of writing, anti-Jewish activists have announced their intention to conduct a hatefest at the Sydney Opera House on…
From Gaza with hate
Last week, Grumpy Greta, the pint-sized prophet of Climate Doom cum Hamas hobgoblin, claimed to have been abducted by Israel…
Who killed the London Stock Exchange?
Stock exchanges around the world compete with each other to entice the most exciting companies to sell their shares on…
It’s getting harder for scientists not to believe in God
Many Baby Boomers are sceptical about God. They think that believing in a higher power is probably incompatible with rationality.…
What Margaret Thatcher meant to Hungary
It is a most fitting tribute: an iron and steel statue of the Iron Lady in a city once behind…
Japan has a bear problem
In a scenario out of a horror film, or Werner Herzog documentary perhaps, Japan is experiencing a spate of bear…
Rex Landy: women’s rights activist arrested
Four years ago, in this very publication, I made a prediction that a Māori women’s rights activist in New Zealand…
Winston Peters tells UN New Zealand will not recognise Palestine
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, has delivered the nation’s official comments on the Palestine issue to the United Nations.…
Four years on the run: New Zealand’s fugitive dad shot dead by police
A fugitive father who vanished into the rugged bushlands of the Waikato region of New Zealand with his three children…
Is Jacinda Ardern hiding from Covid scrutiny?
During the five years Jacinda Ardern led New Zealand, much was made of her ‘transparent’ style of touchy-feely leadership and…
Who were the real bigots in Epping?
The rustle of underwear
If ever there was gorgeous chocolate-box theatre it’s this magnificently staged production of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca directed by Anne-Louise…
Jilly Cooper’s novels could well become classics
Dame Jilly Cooper, who has died at 88, had a remarkable career, turning herself from a sparkling writer for newspapers…
Has Taylor Swift lost it?
The Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant once remarked that every successful musician has what he called ‘an imperial phase’, during…
What can we expect from the Simpsons sequel?
It is now more than three decades since President Bush the First declared that American families should be “more like…
Dressing the word salad
We owe the ghostwriter of this book a debt of gratitude. A novelist called Geraldine Brooks is cited as a…
Justin Currie’s truly remarkable rock memoir
In 2022, at the age of 58, Justin Currie – singer, bass-player and main songwriter with the Scottish rock band…
Will Israel always have America’s backing?
Marc Lynch is angry. The word ‘rage’ appears six times on the first page, and comes in response to Israel’s…
The radical power of sentimentality
When Samuel Richardson’s Pamela was published in 1740, it unleashed something unprecedented in literary history. This epistolary novel about a…
The gay rights movement threatens to implode
In the UK and elsewhere in the West, lesbian and gay rights have largely been won. Over the past two…
A literary Russian doll: The Tower, by Thea Lenarduzzi, reviewed
A girl in a tower. The words trigger instant curiosity. Who is she? Who locked her away, and why? Was…
The traitor who gives Downing Street a bad name
Samuel Pepys didn’t much like the subject of Dennis Sewell’s new biography. Sir George Downing (1623-84) was for a short…
A death sentence for Afghanistan’s women judges
Quiz. Which country had a successful court named the Court for the Elimination of Violence against Women, where women could…