Michael de Percy

Dutton cleanses NSW Liberal temple just in time

3 September 2024 11:03 pm

From the early days of federal politics in Australia, conservatives have been split over issues such as free trade versus…

Masculinity is not toxic

2 September 2024 2:05 am

Violence against women and children is never acceptable, no matter who the perpetrator. Bill Shorten, in an interesting piece in…

Beware the infiltration of ‘pocket socialism’

26 August 2024 11:54 pm

Have you ever noticed pockets of socialism appearing in our society? I refer to identity politics practices that infiltrate our…

Labor’s recession we didn’t have to have

20 August 2024 8:11 pm

Federal spending is set to increase to its highest level since the mid-1980s, pandemic spending aside, at 26.6 per cent…

‘Breaking’ news: our constitutional monarchy wins gold!

14 August 2024 2:30 am

Australia’s constitutional monarchy is one of the most modern forms of liberal democracy. And despite all the embarrassment from a…

Next time, the French Wokerati should fight their own wars

9 August 2024 12:15 am

The mainstream media is shoving the Paris Olympics down our throats. But like many other Australians, I want nothing to…

Time for tough love or Australia will go to the dogs

29 July 2024 2:00 am

From Thimphu, Bhutan: To ‘go to the dogs’ is an idiom that means an organisation or a country is ‘deteriorating…

Don’t kowtow to useful idiots, and say no to a republic

27 July 2024 6:17 pm

So, our young people are increasingly in favour of a republic? Help them pack for the Democratic Republic of Korea,…

The Coalition must follow Trump’s lead

22 July 2024 1:27 pm

Populists represent the forgotten people

Trump and Vance will pull the socialist wool from our eyes

17 July 2024 2:10 am

For several years the focus of leftist academics, and even some Western security agencies, has been on right-wing extremism. Many…

Great Labor Split II: Albo’s succumbing to socialist dilemmas

11 July 2024 2:00 am

The Great Labor Split of 1955 stemmed from theoretical dilemmas that have always haunted the Western left’s fragmented socialism. 70…

No, Mr Bowen, community batteries are not a substitute for nuclear

2 July 2024 2:30 am

At a recent press conference in Bexley North in Sydney’s south, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced the…

The case for a government-owned nuclear reactor fleet

24 June 2024 3:00 am

Peter Dutton’s announcement that the Coalition will build seven nuclear reactors on the sites of existing coal-fired power stations is…

Taiwan and Australia: She’ll be right, mate?

18 June 2024 2:30 am

From Taipei: One of the first things that struck me about Taiwan is that I felt like I was in…

North Korea trash politics sky-high while our pollies are distracted

8 June 2024 11:43 pm

From Baengnyeongdo, South Korea: Here at what the Americans call PY-Do in the Yellow Sea, we are closer to North…

Art’s gone Woke and no longer serves the common good

21 May 2024 9:31 am

Perhaps the National Gallery of Australia should be renamed the National Fringe Gallery of Australia...

A Federal Budget to celebrate

14 May 2024 10:21 pm

Is this the moment Labor self-destructs?

Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs

25 April 2024 3:50 am

Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs, today we commemorate the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at…

The Albanese government is our biggest national security threat

16 April 2024 8:58 pm

The bold display of Iranian military drones over the holy city of Jerusalem symbolises the weakness of the Albanese government.…

Dear Senator Wong, recognising a terrorist state is wrong

11 April 2024 12:33 am

Senator Wong’s recent call to recognise Palestine, which is controlled by the proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas, was supported by Senator…

Albo unashamedly takes credit for union buster’s grand vision

8 April 2024 2:00 am

Albanese is selling our young voters a dangerous lie

70 per cent of EV data is made up

2 April 2024 2:00 am

Evangelistic EV drivers tell me that as an academic, I should know better. They are unimpressed when I do not…

Treasurer’s antifragile Budget just another black swan

25 March 2024 10:30 am

The Treasurer is like a boss who enthusiastically makes everyone’s life a misery with every new fad. Only this time,…

How about tax deductions for your home loan interest?

21 March 2024 2:25 am

Imagine if you could claim the interest you pay on your mortgage as a tax deduction. While you can’t in…

Woke tropes informing Australia’s Gaza response

16 March 2024 11:35 am

ACT Senator David Pocock wrote about Australia’s response to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza recently. The next day, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong…