In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Albanese has traded a Western partner for a communist master
The Prime Minister and his harem of advisors, bureaucrats, and industry hangers-on have returned after a six-day tour in China.…
Whoops! I ended up on a ‘potential enemies’ list
Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like the idea of AI making lists of ‘potential enemies’ based on prior interactions.…
‘Hey Dad, it’s John Stone on the phone’ – Vale John Owen Stone 1929-2025
It is with great sadness and affection that we report on the death of John Stone, a long-time contributor to…
The perils of Trump’s tariff gamble
During an Oval Office meeting with Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte, President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a tariff of…
One Nation under truth, life, and sovereignty
In an age when political decisions are often dictated by focus groups, moral relativism, and international bureaucracies, One Nation stands…
Albanese’s anaemic neutrality risks Aukus
In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin…
A (very) dirty story
Back in May of this year, I attended a skin cancer clinic for the excision of a lesion suspected to…
New Zealand’s Associate Energy Minister, Shane Jones, is awesome
In today’s tiresome world of prefabricated media grabs and rehearsed campaign slogans uttered by cardboard cut-out ministers, it is not…
How much more can Ukrainians endure?
With Russian drone and missile attacks assaulting Ukrainian cities, and Ukrainian civilian casualties at their highest levels since the beginning…
The distraction of gender quotas
In some parts of the media and, indeed, of the Liberal Party, the issue of quotas for women continues to…
A new strain of Western anti-Israel activists has emerged
On February 16, 2005, Arik Sharon, Israel’s then Prime Minister, secured the approval of the Knesset, (Israel’s Parliament), for a…
A Roman emperor’s Triumph: Australia 2025
Australia in 2025 is a temporary one-party state, and not yet a Roman emperor’s triumph with gold, elephants, flute girls,…
Bad policy begets worse policy
What is the difference between levying tax on the unrealised gains on an asset with a market value, and levying…
The crisis of international law: sovereignty and compliance
The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 had attempted to resolve a previous era of religious wars and there began the…
The benefit of my ‘fake’ Bachelor of Music
I remember vividly the day I received my offer to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. It was 2006.…
On Free Speech: Minns’ anti-Americanism will hurt New South Wales
Chris Minns employs an effective, if underutilised tactic in messaging contentious political issues: Brazenness. Minns first piqued the interest of…
Housing propaganda from your state-owned media
The ABC has no place in a modern, democratic Australia
