Michael de Percy

Trump’s tariff wins? It’s FAFO, stupid

2 August 2025 7:18 pm

If you fear what Trump might do, that’s the whole point

New York has become the epicentre of useful idiots

1 August 2025 8:11 pm

From the DMZ, Korean Peninsula: July 27 marked the 72nd anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. In response, a series…

Albo’s TikTok dilemma

28 July 2025 2:28 am

Chinese social media giant TikTok is set to launch a constitutional challenge to Australia’s controversial social media ban for under…

It’s time to give 16-year-olds the vote

24 July 2025 11:48 am

The UK has ‘handed the vote’ to 16-year-olds in a move that has been seen as Sir Keir Starmer trying…

The Greens are engrossed in their own irrelevance

22 July 2025 11:51 am

Queensland Greens give co-founder Drew Hutton the boot

Is Net Zero environmentally friendly?

17 July 2025 6:44 pm

Dr Ken Henry addresses the National Press Club

Housing propaganda from your state-owned media

14 July 2025 10:25 am

The ABC has no place in a modern, democratic Australia

The Smart Energy Council’s love letter to Chris Bowen

13 July 2025 9:59 am

From the National Press Club: Picture this. A room full of journalists, some scribbling notes, others stifling yawns, as John…

The Battle of Britain: a boy’s dreams and a family’s legacy

10 July 2025 11:27 am

July 10 marks the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. While it was far away from Australia, as a…

Hey Albo, cop this mate. With love, The Don

9 July 2025 9:14 am

As Albo continues to ignore the only nation and ally that has spilt blood in the defence of our continent,…

Disloyal far-left breakaways are coming for Labor

7 July 2025 11:06 am

I don’t care what left-wing pundits say about the last election. Political parties shouldn’t chase young voters. It’s obvious from…

Albo ‘turned a corner’ and got us stuck on a roundabout

5 July 2025 12:39 am

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s incessant claim that Australia has ‘turned a corner’ is wearing thin. Like a motorist stuck on…

Bowen’s hydrogen mirage has vanished

2 July 2025 6:22 pm

The hydrogen economy, once heralded as the future of clean energy, is unravelling as I write. A few years back,…

It’s time for a Reform Australia Party

1 July 2025 12:28 pm

Populism has been defined as an approach to politics that pits a champion of the commonfolk against elites. Right-wing populism…

Climate change strikes Canberra

30 June 2025 9:29 am

Like a GBU-57 bunker buster, global warming turned into global boiling and then suddenly turned into weather so cold it…

Tony Burke’s detention inaction

29 June 2025 7:29 pm

The Albanese government’s refusal to detain dangerous criminals, citing legal barriers, is a shameful abdication of responsibility. Home Affairs Minister…

Sussan Ley respects, reflects, and represents… others

25 June 2025 6:41 pm

From the National Press Club: It’s difficult not to like Sussan Ley. I discovered she was in front of me…

Digital nanny deep state

24 June 2025 11:57 pm

Parents to be replaced by Australia’s world-leading eSafety overreach

Albo disconnects from Trump’s defining moment

22 June 2025 8:33 pm

Prime Minister Albanese was busy enjoying his right to disconnect tonight as he sidestepped one of the defining moments of…

President Trump strikes, saves the world

22 June 2025 11:26 am

Today’s US military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, authorised by President Donald Trump, is a global reckoning. This decisive action…

Land tax is communism

21 June 2025 11:01 am

Labor’s greedy and cruel forever tax on the family home

Jim Chalmers: the unsustainable Treasurer

18 June 2025 10:27 pm

Could he be the next Prime Minister?

Trump’s military parade exposes weak Albo and Wong

16 June 2025 7:53 pm

On June 14, Washington DC roared to life with the thunder of tanks, the wokka of choppers, and the march…

Warwick Stacey: One Nation’s Senate ‘stunner’

16 June 2025 11:17 am

One Nation’s newly elected senator, Warwick Stacey, brings to the table skills and experience that most Australian politicians have only…

Surfing the waves of nostalgia with Brian Wilson

14 June 2025 6:47 pm

The 1970s were a strange time to be a kid. The world was caught between post-hippie naivety and the gritty…