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Students waste their time and energy protesting Pauline
Political passion in the young is not the problem. Its direction is...
The Pauline protests: a day out during Mao’s cultural revolution
This is the opposite of democracy. This is fascism and communism to the core...
Does Victoria have the guts to go blue?
Surely Victoria cannot endure another term of Labor, but will they vote conservative?
Identity politics is modern communism
How progressive politics unpicked Western Enlightenment one dangerous idea at a time
Latest polling reveals path to victory for conservatives
With the right split between One Nation, the Liberals, and Nationals ... victory has become a complex calculation of preferences
Government to hand more power to eSafety Commissioner
The regulator’s own record is reason enough not to trust it with more powers
Taking out the trash
Reform Leader Nigel Farage enjoys substantial victory over Count Binface in Clacton by-election
Make Australian genealogy affordable
As Australia’s 250th anniversary approaches, let’s make it cheaper for Australians to access the records that reveal their family’s story
New Victorian Premier Carroll backs away from unworkable WFH laws
The last thing Victoria needed was a confusing, heavy-handed, productivity-destroying and investment-sapping law
Melon jokes cannot fix Labor’s man problem
Cringe blokey jokes will not make Labor more appealing to the young men it has left behind
Japanese melons and the malaise of modern politics
Anthony Albanese has taken Labor down a ‘low road’ only to find no handy exits on the way
The curious case of the wrong feelings
The rise of One Nation is not occurring because millions of Australians have suddenly stopped thinking
WA Parliament should keep the Lord’s Prayer
It is a solemn symbol of the foundational Judeo-Christian values that made our liberal democracy possible
The One Nation of our discontent
The major parties do not grasp how deeply they are hated. That is because the political class is not merely out of touch. It lives in a different world...
Strategy of the pro-Australia parties to the next election
If they cannot say something good about One Nation, they should say nothing at all
Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition
A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe
International Law and the immigration game
The ‘Views of Hosts’ were a list of regulations made by a statute of 1439 which required that money made…
A mostly cynical, mushroom-cloud-shaped message to Moscow
Was the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to end the war?
Patriotism: the last default
The nation is the only institution Australians are still born into. Do they value it enough?
Census: a question of religion
If we are going to spend three quarters of a billion dollars counting the country, we might at least count it properly
The de-Christianisation of the nation
Christianity is in decline, not just in Australia, but throughout the Western world
Should Australia care where migrants spend their money?
Many skilled migrants, especially from lower-income countries, send discretionary income overseas
Identity politics is the root cause of Albo’s success
And it might just be the greatest challenge to our liberal democracy
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