Trump for dummies
Misunderstanding Trump is an existential threat to Australia
What economy is RBA Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser talking about?
Deputy RBA Governor Andrew Hauser used a cute horse-racing analogy to explain the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy at the UBS Australasia…
Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
‘Charlie’ is what you call a friend named Charles when you know him well. Before September 10, 2025, hardly anyone…
Importing a Tasmania’s worth of people every year
We need a policy of immigration pause
Don’t eat the seed corn, Jim
If Jim Chalmers increases the tax burden on capital gains, it would mark the biggest backflip on a tax pledge…
Productivity? Government is a dead weight on the economy
Past performance is the best predictor of future performance, so the business chiefs heading to Anthony Albanese’s Productivity Summit should…
Of saints and sinners
One is dead and likely to be proclaimed a saint at some time, and the other is alive and performing…
Beyond the sliding doors election
‘This election…is a sliding doors moment for our nation,’ declared Peter Dutton, and maybe he was right, and in ways…
Trump was not a significant factor, and that matters
Post-election there is always jockeying to write the narrative. Frequently these are either complete fantasy, or ‘faction’ – fiction based…
Adam Bandt tempts Albo with a couple of housing treats
If Prime Minister Albanese does not outright reject Adam Bandt’s demand to Grandfather negative gearing and scrap 50 per cent…
Labor clueless on foreign affairs
Goodness knows why the Chinese government would want to put pressure on the Albanese government during an election campaign, but…
Dutton fires gun on the election
Anthony Albanese may think he’s being smart by announcing the election the day after Peter Dutton’s reply-to-the-Budget speech, but because…
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…
