Michael de Percy

Keen to punish the Coalition this election? It’ll cost you!

19 April 2025 8:45 pm

The Coalition may not be in its best shape, but when they were in power, most Australians were better off.…

Housing policy debate mismatched with Australian culture

16 April 2025 9:23 pm

From the National Press Club: Housing policy is very tricky to balance effectively. There is no set formula because times…

Tone-deaf Greens disco on Anzac Day

15 April 2025 10:52 am

Australia is in a strange space where the traditions that enabled our high standard of living are being taken for…

Albo’s ‘Blight on the Hill’ is blinding the MSM

15 April 2025 10:48 am

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she wants to ‘make Australia great again’. The reaction? ‘They finally said the quiet bit out…

Dutton’s tax-deductible interest for first homebuyers is a breakthrough

13 April 2025 11:56 am

Like many conservatives, I have been waiting for something original from the Coalition that will differentiate them from the socialists.…

Albo isn’t winning, but the Coalition is losing

12 April 2025 6:01 pm

Australians have every reason to be nervous about another three years of a Labor government. The last three years have…

Greens announce dumbest policy ever: ‘renters’ right to solar’

11 April 2025 6:39 pm

Owning a rental property in Australia is becoming a complete farce. Why would you bother owning a rental property when…

Ted O’Brien was all over Chris Bowen like a wind turbine on an endangered bird

10 April 2025 4:25 pm

From the National Press Club: I love the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), even if it’s gone so Woke that…

Angus goes to the mattresses, majority don’t like Adam

9 April 2025 9:00 pm

Your Correspondent in Canberra: It was quite the day in the election campaign. Adam Bandt addressed a sparse-looking crowd at…

Albo and Dutton debate was a complete farce

8 April 2025 9:22 pm

Central to our two-party liberal democracy is political debate. Our system allows for peaceful revolutions at the ballot box. It…

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…