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Dropping targets is not the same as scrapping Net Zero
The Liberal Party has not dropped Net Zero. They have merely ditched the official Net Zero 2030 and 2050 targets…
Concerns raised over new Voluntary Assisted Dying Laws
On Sunday, November 3, 2025, around 50 people gathered on the lawns outside the ACT Legislative Assembly for a rally…
Crime, state debt, mental health – all out of control in Victoria
The once proud State of Victoria is facing an existential crisis without parallel in its 174-year history. Taxpayers are rightly fretting over…
The COP hypocrisy will cost us a fortune
One billion dollars. That’s how much the Albanese Labor government expects to be paying for hosting a United Nations climate…
What economy is RBA Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser talking about?
Deputy RBA Governor Andrew Hauser used a cute horse-racing analogy to explain the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy at the UBS Australasia…
Gough Whitlam’s statue crowns the man and ignores the mess
The Dismissal was no coup. It was our democratic process operating exactly as it was designed to. In fact, it…
This will not end with Indigenous treaties
I am always concerned when elites give away money or assets that are not theirs. For example, it is one…
Australia is ready for the Net Zero debate
Coalition cannot rely on others to oppose the Albanese government agenda
Scamper off to the backbench, Andrew Bragg
Andrew Bragg came out all hot and heavy the other day, threatening to quit the frontbench if the Liberal Party…
The ghost of Gough Whitlam is dead
Last week I was fortunate to be invited as a panel guest for the 2025 Australians for Constitutional Monarchy National…
Is this the final fight for Net Zero within the Coalition?
With the OECD recognising a significant global slowdown in the appetite of nations to adopt CO2-reducing policies, on Wednesday, the…
John Laws, Richo, and the end of an era
The weekend brought news that marked not just the loss of two towering figures in Australian public life, but the…
Australia’s empty seat at the World Nuclear Exhibition
Last week, I joined the world’s largest gathering of the nuclear sector, the World Nuclear Exhibition (WNE) in Paris. Over…
When the lights go out … so does everything else
I have six large, decorative but functional candles at the ready. The lights going out are the least of my…
Trump Derangement Syndrome, European style
One of the curious oddities of our time is the near-universal contempt shown by Western Europeans towards President Donald J…
Goodbye Road, by Michael Gray Griffith
I don’t want to forget, but it hurts when I remember. Yet here we are … we’re on Goodbye Road,…
Vale Graham Richardson
It is with great sadness that we learned this morning of the passing of Graham Richardson, known affectionately to both…
Pauline Hanson speaks at Mar-a-Lago as Sussan Ley flounders
One Nation has rocketed to a record-high 15 per cent primary vote in Newspoll, while the Coalition languishes at an…
Labor is powering its politics with ‘gaslight’
Many Australians would be forgiven for thinking that this country is struggling through a cost-of-living crisis. You might be surprised…
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