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Preserving the Institutions of Western Civilisation in the Age of Populism
These anti-establishment parties don’t just mine grievance about poor economic performance
Labor: funding failure with another $25 million to the Palestinian Authority
Foreign Minister Penny Wong insists Australia’s foreign policy is guided by international law, moderation, and the pursuit of peace. Yet…
Mainstream media deserves its fate on the scrap heap of history
A solid week of propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation...
A Coup-ee from Canberra
Recent discussion at the Labor National Conference has revived debate about an Australian republic. Much of that debate focuses on…
The Odyssey: the film that launched a thousand tweets
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey has attracted a lot of attention for its DEI casting. Elon Musk is especially aggrieved and taken…
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the ABC, and the Celebration Parallax
First you insist something isn’t happening, declare them evil for noticing it, and then celebrate it openly once you feel confident it’s too late to reverse
Bronze statues are not threatening Australia’s future
The Australian Labor Party National Conference has forgotten the problems facing ordinary Australians
The standard you walk past
Seriousness is not a quality people carry around with them. It is a response to an environment
Pauline Hanson offers Angus Taylor support to stop ISIS fighters returning
According to Credlin on Sky News Australia, Pauline Hanson has written to Angus Taylor offering One Nation support for any legislation…
Vikki Campion’s warning: Mess with Barnaby and meet your match
People have been bagging out Barnaby Joyce for rousing on his dog while doing an interview on an iPhone on…
Australian ‘gun’ culture?
Bob Katter: I can think of nothing more fundamentally Australian than teaching your kids or grandkids to go camping, fishing, and hunting
Pilbara strike exposes union
The first major protected industrial action at BHP’s Pilbara iron ore operations in decades
Waiting for the counter-reformation
The greatest institutional comeback in history has a documented method, and yet none of our dying institutions has referred to it
What if small businesses went on strike against Labor?
Small businesses are hurting (and closing) under Labor’s federal and state policies
Australia must engage with the man Iranians are calling for
Engaging Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is not choosing Iran’s next government. It is recognising the most credible path from terrorist rule to the ballot box
We have not lost the knowledge. We have lost the nerve…
A country that cannot measure competence cannot build anything that matters
One Nation polling proves ‘The Establishment’ can’t be trusted
The attacks keep coming for One Nation from both sides of politics and the media. Yet amid last week’s claims…
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Who you gonna trust, baby?
Conservative leaders need to listen more closely to Shakespeare
A constitution to rule them all
How much power is concentrated in Pauline’s hands?
The lessons our schools need to teach
Today’s students are woefully ignorant of how our government works
