Budget 2025: out of ideas and full of fiscal analgesics
Keating predicted a Banana Republic and it is gradually coming true
Reciprocal tariffs would be foolish
Trump imposing tariffs on Australia was perhaps inevitable. Trump 2.0 is not the Trump 1.0 who negotiated free trade agreements…
Happy Epiphany! Wokeism is not post-modern Marxism, but heretical Christianity
Each year I try and put the season into a Christian perspective because, as plenty of scholars, from Tom Holland…
Trump: the great global reset
The re-election of Donald Trump resets the world… His former presidency was almost whimsical. Trump was a rank outsider with…
They are not ‘peace’ activists
Only the naïve, which seems to include a number of respected commentators, regard the mobs that gather to ‘protest’ against…
It’s everyone else’s fault
Jim Chalmers has reacted to news that Australia’s growth has been an anaemic 1 per cent (which with population growth…
Large swing in the NT does not make QLD a foregone conclusion
On Saturday, the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party (CLP) achieved a 10 per cent two-party preferred swing to oust the…
What are eco-fascist concepts doing in Australia’s law?
Recent Australian High Court rulings on issues of Aboriginality have taken a strange turn, and not for the better. It…
What if Albanese doesn’t care if the Voice succeeds?
Remember when Albo said, ‘I like fighting Tories, that’s what I do’? What if that is really what defines the…
Vale Rule of Law and Rule of Logic
Shannon Fentiman is the Minister for Justice, Minister for Women, and soon to be the former Queensland Attorney-General. She is…
Naked self-interest: Chalmers, Labor, and the unions
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ essay in The Monthly is an urgent, although not particularly eloquent, proof of the need for organisations like…
Carbon taxes are useless without a technological breakthrough
Raising the cost of using a particular fuel will shift consumption to another fuel, but only if all other things…
‘No’ to Covid amnesty
We appear to be reaching a tipping point on Covid governance as high-profile advocate after high-profile advocate of masks, mandates…
Change the government, or the reef gets it!
As far as Australian left-wing politicians were concerned, the threatened endangerment finding on the Great Barrier Reef was just blackmail.…
Net Zero? The hypocrisy of the religious clerisy
It is a rootless age when 100 of the leaders of various Christian and other churches in Oceania can pen an…
Healthy Great Barrier Reef, healthy environmental scandal
The release of the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s Annual Summary Report on Coral Reef Condition for 2021/22 has exposed a major…
Voters put the ‘majors’ on notice
In this federal election, the Coalition and the freedom parties – Liberal Democrats, One Nation, and United Australia Party –…
Rich Uncle Albo’s shared equity nightmare
For the worst-crafted, most ineffectual policy of this election campaign it would be hard to go past Rich Uncle Albo’s…
The endless repeat of history
Many of our collective disasters are shaped by a lack of imagination. We tend to privilege what we know or…
‘Mean Girls’ will shape the next election
Liberals are basking in schadenfreude after allegations of bullying were levelled at Labor’s Senate leadership team of Penny Wong, Katy…
The war front is closer than you might like
Trouble at home, trouble abroad. Australia is being challenged at a number of levels, but there are some common themes.…
We said nothing, and then they came for us
First they came for the freaks – Milo Yiannopoulos and Alex Jones – and we did nothing because, you know,…
How do I vote for the ‘Barty Party’?
In the contrasts between Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios we see a little of the divisions that rend modern Australian…
ScoMo in SloMo slide toward fatal collision at next election
The next federal election will be held no later than May 21, 2022. It looks like a re-run of 2007…
Schwarten’s ‘Covid logic’ cruelly divides Queenslanders
It’s far past time that people stop playing politics with Covid, as former ALP Old Guard enforcer Robert Schwarten did…
