In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Why ‘Chapter II: The Executive’ in our Constitution needs an overhaul
‘Our Defence Minister – who probably doesn’t know how to fire a gun […] he’s a Labor Party lifelong hack.’…
Albo ‘turned a corner’ and got us stuck on a roundabout
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s incessant claim that Australia has ‘turned a corner’ is wearing thin. Like a motorist stuck on…
Constitutional monarchy aligns with Iran’s identity and future
In Iranian culture and history, monarchy has not merely been a political system it has represented a sacred, cultural, and…
Secretary Kennedy is doing exactly what he promised
RFK Jr’s rise to Secretary of Health in the Trump Administration stands as a triumph many thought impossible. Not only…
The sharp edge of the activist utopia
Glastonbury has long styled itself as the spiritual heartland of British counterculture: a muddy utopia where peace signs, protest chants,…
Bowen’s hydrogen mirage has vanished
The hydrogen economy, once heralded as the future of clean energy, is unravelling as I write. A few years back,…
Vylan and 18C – how the West can be won again.
During what some have dubbed ‘Nuremberg at Glastonbury’, we heard, thanks to the BBC for their unfiltered live-stream, death chants…
How feminist ideology captured psychology
How refreshing to discover an anti-feminist psychiatrist. Very few people in the ‘helping professions’ have the courage to openly oppose…
The Alice in Wonderland productivity roundtable
It is a humbling experience to be a leader in a democracy. It requires the recent Coalition concession that they…
It’s time for a Reform Australia Party
Populism has been defined as an approach to politics that pits a champion of the commonfolk against elites. Right-wing populism…
Fake apocalypses are an economic scam
In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near…
More failures in union leadership
Australian workers face a pattern of betrayal from union leaders. This week, the Victorian branch of the Health Services Union…
Jaws turns 50 but still resonates with today’s audiences
Steven Spielberg’s cinema blockbuster and directorial masterpiece Jaws recently turned 50. Released in 1975, its influence on popular culture remains…
Climate change strikes Canberra
Like a GBU-57 bunker buster, global warming turned into global boiling and then suddenly turned into weather so cold it…
Tony Burke’s detention inaction
The Albanese government’s refusal to detain dangerous criminals, citing legal barriers, is a shameful abdication of responsibility. Home Affairs Minister…
Australian government lacks courage to create unity
The bombing of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities in Iran under the approval and direction of US President Donald Trump…
