Australia has spent billions teaching kids to hate democracy
Nearly half of young adults want something other than democracy
It’s time to take the UK out of Aukus
Back in January, Spartacus argued that Australia should work with the US to drop the UK from Aukus and bring…
Gough Whitlam called
He wants his economic policies back
The Treasury has a vision. (There is medication for that.)
Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of West Germany once observed that people who have visions should go and see a doctor.…
Canberra renamed to Buenos Aires
How do we decline? Gradually ... and then suddenly
A pity both sides can’t lose
What we need is a referendum to enshrine the right to free speech
Textbooks will be written about how Australia turned into Argentina
And the eSafety Commissioner will rush in to ban them
Pauline Hanson and the party of one
When you have been swimming in a sewer long enough, you lose the ability to smell your own filth. I…
Policy corner – voluntary tax, honours, land transfers
I am tired of hearing from the wealth boulevardiers that Australia’s taxes should be increased and that wealthy people should…
Four years of genius and somehow everything is on fire
In two weeks, the Albanese government will have been in office for four full years. Four years. A presidential term…
The other bracket creeps
Everyone knows about income tax bracket creep. Wages drift up with inflation, taxpayers slide into higher brackets, and the Commonwealth…
Born in April: A toast to Jefferson and Hitchens
Today is April 13th. Thomas Jefferson was born on this date in 1743. Christopher Hitchens was born on this date…
Three minutes of absolutely nothing
In 1979, US President Jimmy Carter went on national television during an oil crisis and delivered a 32-minute address diagnosing…
Why is this man still Treasurer?
Anyone paying even half attention knows it – Jim Chalmers is completely out of his depth, and Australians are paying…
Regulated to death
The utter betrayal of Australia’s managed decline
Substantially uncertain about being certainly substantial
Australia’s Treasurer, a man with a PhD in political science and the communicative precision of a fortune cookie, stepped to…
Sorry Tim. You’re dreaming…
The new Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson, has been more visible in the few days since his appointment than his predecessor…
A man’s gotta know his limitations
In Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood delivers one of greatest lines in cinema history: A man’s gotta know his limitations. It…
Debt, debt, debt, debt, debt
There are a lot of people who comfort themselves by thinking that the Commonwealth government’s $1 trillion of debt is…
Australia’s renewable energy or monorail policy?
I hate to infringe on the sacred writing territory of Labor Dry, but desperate times call for shameless imitation. There…
Are the Nationals an equal Coalition partner?
Give it a couple of weeks, or more precisely, a couple of pay cycles, and the National Party will be…
Dump Aukus. Build Aujus
As a matter of national security, and basic strategic sanity, Aukus should be scrapped and replaced with Aujus. Drop the…
The Liberal Party that forgot what held it together
I have been quiet for a week and a half. Now it is time to return to battle, a metaphorical…
Live not by spin
In 1974, after being arrested for the crime of telling the truth, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released his famous essay Live Not…
Values-based socialism – Jim’s Jamboree
The Productivity Summit has given us nothing
