In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk: a Muslim’s elegy
I was seeing patients when the breaking news flashed on the TV screen in the waiting room. By the time…
A few good men and the truth we can’t handle
In that classic scene from the movie A Few Good Men, Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, played by Tom Cruise, is defending…
Australia’s housing push is bipartisan
The Liberal Party has two traditions, conservatism and support for free markets. Normally, those movements are allies, but housing policy…
Climate Risk Assessment as a political manifesto
The Australian Climate Service this week released its National Climate Risk Assessment – a document cloaked in the authority of science…
Western Civilisation is not okay
Last Thursday was R U OK Day. To me, it’s never rated a mention. It feels performative and replete with…
Questions without answers
As an Old Bushy from the Riverina, I can claim to have always had an abiding interest in the future…
Left’s abandonment of women
For all the hashtags, halo-polishing and sloganeering, the left has abandoned women. Their willingness to sacrifice women and girls as…
University assassinations: from Tehran 1949 to the United States
On February 5, 1949, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Aryamehr was the target of an assassination attempt during the inauguration of…
The biggest medical betrayal since Thalidomide
Across the world, frontline reproductive medicine professionals are sounding the alarm over mounting signals of harm in fertility, pregnancy, and…
Nigel Farage challenges our censorship empire
Reform leader Nigel Farage has challenged UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to arrest the individuals who went on social media…
Productivity vs the rent seekers’ tea party
How doomed is Australia? This much. The ABS, bless their public-service hearts, churns out mountains of data. Pity hardly anyone…
Wanted: an effective Opposition
It is to Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke that we attribute the saying: ‘Those that fail to learn from history are…
When they came for the Jews – they attacked our shared values
Pastor Martin Niemöller’s words from Nazi Germany are uncomfortably relevant: ‘First, they came for the Jews, and I did not…
The case of Dr Jereth Kok: a profession under attack
The suspension of Melbourne GP Dr Jereth Kok by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) stands as a warning…
The murder of Charlie Kirk: a warning to the West
Three days have passed since Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah, and I am writing this still in a state…
The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry
The following is a transcript of Erika Kirk’s press conference. Good evening, my name is Erika Kirk. Charlie Kirk is…
Nampijinpa Price’s sacking illuminates the battle lines
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s sacking from the Liberal front bench this week is further reminder that the fault line in Australian…
Gallipoli Scholarship gives Anzac kids a fighting chance
The Gallipoli Club organised a commemoration event for the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Lone Pine on August 5,…
The Left cannot handle the truth
Charlie Kirk was killed for one reason, because he spoke the truth. The Left cannot handle the truth. Charlie had…
Senator Price is right to comment on matters of public interest
When Senator Jacinta Price commented on Australian immigration policy, and in particular Indian immigration, she was doing precisely what she…
Debate, not demonisation: this is the lesson of Charlie Kirk
I awoke this morning to the news Charlie Kirk had been shot. Minutes later his death was confirmed. The 31-year-old…
