In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Taxing spare bedrooms: policy theatre, not progress
Every so often in Australia’s housing debate, an idea pops up that perfectly captures where our culture has gone astray.…
Who will defend a nation of renters?
Economic arguments miss the cultural significance of home ownership
Production begets productivity
As we watch with increasing annoyance and incredulity the befuddled and wasteful actions of the present government as they seek…
Labor’s union monopoly sits at the heart of the culture wars | Edward Schuller. S3 Ep 07
Having the freedom to belong to a non-political union – aka a union that does not fund the Labor Party…
A realist perspective on Crown Reza Pahlavi’s return
Political developments within countries cannot be analysed in isolation from the international context. The return of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi…
Antisemitism of the Left explained
Why, since October 7, 2023, have many in the West celebrated Hamas’ invasion of southern Israeli communities and the unspeakable…
An open letter to the Prime Minister on his failure
Dear Prime Minister, Contained within your election acceptance speech on May 21, 2022, was the following statement/pledge: ‘I want to…
Why did the Labor government wait so long to act on Iran?
The Albanese government has finally made a long-overdue decision to expel Iran’s Ambassador to Australia. While the decision is welcome,…
Labor in crisis over Iran’s fingerprints of antisemitism
Yesterday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fronted a press conference, declaring Iran as the shadowy hand behind recent attacks on the…
The energy grid needs markets, not mandates!
Average electricity wholesale prices rose from less than $40 per MWh in 2009 (actually less than $30 in 2011) to…
The Productivity Roundtable was not nothing
The Treasurer’s Productivity Roundtable is not nothing … but it could become very little if there is no follow through…
Playing the ‘race card’ against build-to-rent
In the IPA Review’s 2025 Winter Edition, Australian economist (and one of my PhD supervisors) Sinclair Davidson wrote an article…
Where is the voice?
It has been said that a falsehood will be up, breakfasted and be halfway around the world before the truth…
Melbourne, mayhem, and machetes
When Danny Trejo starred in the 2010 violent action film Machete, many went to see it for a few hours…
Labor’s looking at your family home and that spare bedroom
There is a disturbing normalisation happening since Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced his Productivity Roundtable. In the interests of ‘saving the…
From utopia to Skynet, energy is our biggest problem
Eco-salvationist ideologues and neo-Luddites are winning
Trump: invoke Budapest
Violated but not rescinded, the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 was signed by the leaders of the US, UK, Russia, and…
Who cleans up after renewable energy? Not foreign-owned ‘green’ companies! | Mia Schlicht. S3 Ep 6
The transition to ‘renewable energy’ and #netzero is expected to cost Australia upward of $700 billion – just to get…
What a crock. Treasurer’s talkfest forgets to cut spending
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has convened his much-hyped Economic Reform Roundtable, a three-day extravaganza billed as the key to unlocking productivity,…
The vanishing art of pluralism in Australia
Australia bars an Israeli MP: revealing a fragile commitment to free speech and pluralism
What is liberty? Government has caused all the worst parts of history | John Ruddick. S3 Ep 5
New South Wales MLC Libertarian John Ruddick explores what it means to be a ‘Libertarian’ in the West. Legalise drugs?…
Albanese betrayed Israel, says Netanyahu after Visa snub
In a scathing response to yet another Israeli MP having their visa cancelled at the last minute, Israeli Prime Minister…
