In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
Senate inquiry into climate and energy seeks truth, allegedly
An attempt by the Greens to silence climate change dissent
Donald Trump: radical Left political violence has hurt too many
Donald Trump – a man with two (known) assassination attempts in recent years – has a rare and visceral perspective…
Today we are all Charlie
Time has dragged us into a public conversation that feels darker, noisier, and stripped of moral clarity. Rage now travels…
Charlie Kirk: the higher power of conversation
Charlie Kirk. A force of nature who stood in front of almost every college student in the United States to…
Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk assassinated at 31
Tributes are flowing in following the horrific assassination of Turning Point founder and CEO Charlie Kirk. Considered a once-in-a-generation talent,…
