Michael de Percy

Comms Minister Anika Wells rejects the premise of liberal democracy

7 December 2025 11:21 pm

From Hamburg: I’m away from the National Press Club for two seconds and I miss out? It’s not quite a…

ACT government flirts hard with socialism

5 December 2025 10:27 am

Residents and communities treated as obstacles to central planning

Will Albo’s crocodile diplomacy discourage China’s flotillas?

3 December 2025 1:40 pm

From Hamburg: As China’s latest flotilla sails closer, Australians are entitled to ask their Prime Minister whose side he is…

If this is Germany’s post-colonial democracy, bring back Bismarck

1 December 2025 2:52 pm

From Hamburg. The only way to cleanse post-colonial guilt is for every person, including immigrants, to give an extensive portion…

Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals to sit on crossbench

27 November 2025 3:26 pm

New England is at the heart of Australia. The Canberra bubble may not like it, but Canberra is merely a…

Parliament cancels A Super Progressive Movie trailer: ‘It might offend someone’

26 November 2025 12:53 pm

Last night in Canberra, I attended One Nation’s launch of the trailer for A Super Progressive Movie – the feature-length…

Liberal Party is dead, and moderates just delivered its eulogy

25 November 2025 10:23 am

Yesterday I was toying with Nietzsche’s idea that God is dead, and we have killed him, but in a Menzian…

Vale Allan Moffat, the gentleman racer

23 November 2025 8:47 am

I was seven years old when Allan Moffat and Colin Bond crossed the line 1-2 in their Ford XC Falcon…

Boeing Bowen heads up Turkey’s COP-out

21 November 2025 12:53 pm

This is not leadership, it is frequent-flyer diplomacy.

The future will be built by sustainable coal

18 November 2025 11:02 pm

From the National Press Club: I know many conservatives are not huge fans of the mainstream media, but we shouldn’t…

The trouble is nobody believes Sussan Ley

17 November 2025 3:39 am

Devastating poll results shows One Nation closing in on Coalition

John Laws, Richo, and the end of an era

10 November 2025 11:33 am

The weekend brought news that marked not just the loss of two towering figures in Australian public life, but the…

Pauline Hanson speaks at Mar-a-Lago as Sussan Ley flounders

7 November 2025 7:51 pm

One Nation has rocketed to a record-high 15 per cent primary vote in Newspoll, while the Coalition languishes at an…

NSW Nanny State makes regional roads more dangerous

31 October 2025 11:21 pm

I challenge John Graham, NSW Minister for Transport, and Jenny Aitchison, the NSW Minister for Roads and Minister for Regional…

Faltering Teals prove there is no room to the left of the Liberals

29 October 2025 1:45 pm

The Teals are learning a lesson from Australian political history. There’s no enduring electoral success for parties or groups positioning…

Hold the PHON! One Nation is on the rise!

28 October 2025 10:24 am

The announced change in name from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) to simply ‘One Nation’ is significant. Political parties that…

Albo’s wall-to-wall press coverage wants us to ‘Back Australia’

26 October 2025 10:48 pm

In the tradition of Australian political theatre, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has unveiled his latest bid for relevance, the ‘Back…

Trump saves Albo from diplomatic disaster, but Rudd must go

22 October 2025 11:12 am

In international diplomacy, it is common for egos to clash and alliances to teeter on the edge of rhetoric. Australian…

Albo the ‘Man of Lead’ while Chalmers has no clue

18 October 2025 9:27 am

Anthony Albanese, a Johnny-come-lately in the extreme, declared his idiotic support for a Palestinian state just moments before Trump’s negotiations…

Australians all let us regret, for we were weak and blind

15 October 2025 8:45 pm

James Paterson’s speech is a good start, but the Liberals need contemporary solutions, not old habits.

Trump triumphs as hostages freed while peace-haters howl

13 October 2025 8:20 pm

In a stunning diplomatic coup, the remaining living Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have finally been released, marking…

Time for a rethink of car manufacturing in Australia

11 October 2025 2:51 pm

Andrew Hastie is right, we should build things again

Are we really that gullible?

6 October 2025 8:46 pm

The media is spinning narratives

This isn’t progress, it’s punishment

4 October 2025 8:21 pm

Modern communism is destroying True Blue Australia

Here comes Andrew Hastie!

3 October 2025 7:34 pm

Is this the calm before a leadership storm?