International law and the attempt to cage the beast
This is not law. It is diplomacy with paperwork...
Venezuela is finally free
A crisis that began when I was still living in Latin America a quarter of a century ago has, at…
Move the Capital to Alice
I bristle at the term Australian Gothic
The end of public consent
Mass immigration. Multiculturalism. National disarmament.
Australia’s managed fragmentation
We cannot allow the state to believe Australians accept censorship in exchange for safety
Why our leaders refused to name the ideology that attacked us
A society that cannot describe a threat cannot contain it
Breaking the obedience barrier
The attacks at Bondi were shocking, but they were not surprising.
The mysterious assailants at Bondi
Australia is a censorious and increasingly secretive nation. In such an environment, clarity matters, especially in moments of public trauma.…
Barnaby Joyce did not leave the Coalition
Australia is entering a realignment that the political class still struggles to interpret
A preventable loss of life?
Natural disasters are not a morality tale
Albanese and the language of coercive conviction
The referendum revealed a troubling pattern in the Prime Minister’s language. Whenever Anthony Albanese speaks from genuine conviction, his words…
The Compassion Racket
Woke words are money at the NDIS
NDIS: The compassion racket
Emotional incentives are the most expensive kind
The political remorse economy
Australia’s leaders turned contrition into control
Middle class saviour fantasies
Should we introduce direct democracy to Australia?
Gough Whitlam’s statue crowns the man and ignores the mess
The Dismissal was no coup. It was our democratic process operating exactly as it was designed to. In fact, it…
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Adapt, or die. Forever. That’s all there is...
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
The creeping return of antisemitism in a polite Australia
No immigrant’s soul have I
Bob Hawke got it badly wrong
