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Lest Labor forget this Remembrance Day
As I left for my truck run in Central NSW this morning, the Flanders poppies stood at attention along the…
Trials and tribulations of free speech in Australia
I am a long-time critic of our High Court’s adventurism and willingness to usurp the legitimate lawmaking power of the…
Haiti: the world’s reluctant laboratory
When the government of Nayib Bukele announced the deployment of more than 2,000 Salvadoran troops to Haiti, the official justification…
Australia’s bloated bureaucracy needs a slice of PIE
My proposal for a powerful oversight department within the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio
The saving of Victoria Barracks
The best way to preserve a heritage site is to continue using it for its original purpose
Britain needs a second amendment
The West is the victim of a sordid Faustian pact; the liberals selling their souls for ‘virtue’, whilst all around them burns
Councillors are happy, shame about the ratepayers
Local government is the only institution where customers are unhappy, management is delighted, and the solution is to send a…
Albo is sleepwalking us into ‘Down and out in Paris and London’
In the late 1920s, George Orwell lived in poverty in Paris. His savings stolen, he worked as a dish pig…
The King’s umbrella
Australians watching from the couch may feel the whole thing is a Pom problem. It isn’t...
Victorian Labor – a ‘credibility-free’ zone
For a window on the collapse of integrity in Australian politics, look no further than the 12-year-old Andrews-Allan-Carroll Labor administrations
Donald Trump defied populism and the woke-right podcasters to do what was right
It has been amusing as well as entirely predictable to watch the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowing over the so-called Blue…
MIDTERM BLUE – NAMI CRASHES OVER DONALD TRUMP | Is this the end of the WEST as we know it? | S3 Ep 27
In this episode: Democrats rise as war in #Iran and mass migration turn the polls against #DonaldTrump #MAGA Republicans. #DavidJones…
Australia’s most serious skills shortage
Perhaps we should import 50 economic policymakers from Taiwan
What can Australia learn from the US election?
Were the results caused by war, inflation, new taxes, or corruption? The answer is ‘yes’...
State of origin
Almost half of Labor’s candidates in its own seats come straight from the political machine
A recession in all but name
Australians are not asking Canberra for generosity; they are asking it to stop taking more than it gives
Angry duck Trump or the West’s goose is cooked
Why did the majority of Americans vote like useful idiots?
Canberra needs an expiry date
Parliament is not meant to be a retirement village for former student politicians
Midterm mayhem
The midterm elections in USA have delivered a shellacking to the Republicans and their policies. This was not confined to…
Trump’s midterms wipeout just handed the West a brutal setback
Those of us in the fight to save the West, including Australia, need to do a much better job explaining the stakes
Should Parliament take back control of interest rates?
With the RBA delivering yet another interest rate rise this week and making life even more uncomfortable for those with…
The fountain of the little snouts
The Boboli Gardens surround the Pitti Palace in Florence, built in 1458 for banker Luca Pitti. It later became the…
Bring back Aussie expats, hit the brakes on mass migration
Around a million Australians live overseas. That number grows every year. Why not entice them back?
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