Michael de Percy

Angus Taylor’s Budget Reply leaves conservatives wanting more

2 April 2025 8:54 pm

From the National Press Club: Australia has had record numbers of business failures on top of declining productivity. That means…

Impossible business growth underpins house of cards Budget

26 March 2025 7:59 pm

From Parliament House, Canberra: Last year Australia experienced record numbers of business failures. While the percentage of businesses was not…

Regional Australians are the biggest budget losers

25 March 2025 7:43 pm

From the Canberra Press Gallery: Regional Australia is the engine room of private sector activity in Australia. With the Budget…

We can’t afford Albo’s phoney election campaign

24 March 2025 12:53 pm

From the National Press Club: Australia is in a phoney election campaign. We’re in that period where we know an…

Paying for elections every three years is worth it

19 March 2025 7:30 pm

There’s an old joke about divorces. Do you know why they’re so expensive? Because they’re worth it. Elections are no…

Simon says Teals keen for costly minority government

15 March 2025 8:41 pm

From the National Press Club: The disdain for conservatives was palpable in Simon Holmes à Court’s address at the National…

Trumpet of Patriots announces a Liberal election platform

14 March 2025 9:11 am

From the National Press Club: Clive Palmer’s address on March 13 delivered the first tranche of the Trumpet of Patriot’s…

Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ trumps ‘the science’

10 March 2025 1:20 pm

Being on the receiving end of a deal with the most powerful person in the world must be quite disarming.…

Woke West stands with Ukraine, Trump deals with reality

4 March 2025 12:07 pm

The rules-based world order has been destroyed by the Wokerati. The United Nations, an institution designed to address the shortcomings…

The Greens’ policies are about to come crashing down

1 March 2025 12:22 am

Senator Hanson-Young’s inability to answer simple questions about Australia’s defence is representative of the Greens’ naïve worldview. In my opinion,…

Albo is officially on the ropes after knocking himself out

25 February 2025 11:04 pm

After three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, the reduced…

Auction on stupidity

23 February 2025 7:28 pm

The uniparty vows to double down on Medicare spending spree

Green steel? Go woke, go broke

20 February 2025 6:33 pm

After the Premier of South Australia put Whyalla Steelworks into administration, Mr Albanese found another $2.4 billion of taxpayers’ money…

Dear farmers, nobody wants to eat fungus-fed beef

17 February 2025 1:41 am

Australian scientists announced this week that they have discovered a way to reduce the methane emissions from livestock. The research,…

Matt Canavan responds to Hate Crime bill fallout

13 February 2025 6:09 pm

Following the fallout from those conservative senators who did not vote against the government’s Hate Crime Bill last week, I…

Uniparty Hate Crime Bill won’t stop hate crime

10 February 2025 2:49 pm

The voting behaviour of senators on February 6 was bizarre to say the least. Labor’s Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes)…

Will Trump inspire Dutton to undo the Uniparty?

8 February 2025 6:32 pm

There is so much hot air blowing around at the moment. Almost every leftie on social media is having a…

Beer and spirits are too expensive, Mr Dutton!

4 February 2025 4:26 pm

It’s no secret that Labor and the Greens want you to ‘eat ze bugs’. The way our economy is going,…

The WHO is finished: step away, Mr Dutton!

2 February 2025 7:19 pm

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a horse that’s been flogged to death. Then it’s been turned over and flogged…

Trump unshackles Australia Day

25 January 2025 4:23 pm

Great things happened this week. Donald Trump multitasked his way into office as the liberator of Western culture, and The…

JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia

19 January 2025 7:36 pm

I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was…

Housing catastrophe?

15 January 2025 8:10 am

Beware the government with a vision for the people

Disinformation and the tyranny of officialdom

11 January 2025 1:20 am

Should the AEC be policing opinion on social media?

Our Anglican tradition, and a bit with a possum

6 January 2025 1:00 am

As I prepared to write this article, I went to pour a glass of wine. When I returned to my…

How to ensure Labor wins the next election

5 January 2025 1:50 am

Splintering the vote will undo Menzies’ legacy