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Make Zionism a protected attribute
By the rivers of Babylon… There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion. Increase of demonisation of…
Leaked immigration policy debacle a boon for Angus Taylor
Every now and then, a complete balls-up can work in one’s favour. Yesterday’s leaked Shadow Cabinet document marked ‘Shadow Cabinet-In-Confidence’…
Don’t let Australia become the Argentina of the Pacific
Follow Menzies and use your first preference votes to discipline Liberal drifters
Why every child should stand and sing the national anthem – weekly
There are few rituals more powerful in the life of a nation than the singing of its national anthem. In…
Digital tyranny or ‘child safety’? 😵 & the bitcoin revolution | Efrat Fenigson S3 Ep 16
When Australia’s Under 16 social media ban started locking adult political writers out of #Substack – it was just the…
The exorcism of Malcolm Turnbull
It’s been almost a decade since Malcolm Turnbull held power over the nation, yet his presence managed to haunt the…
Jeff Kennett suggests preference deal with One Nation
Unite the right and defeat the Labor government?
A man’s gotta know his limitations
In Magnum Force, Clint Eastwood delivers one of greatest lines in cinema history: A man’s gotta know his limitations. It…
Will Angus Taylor lead the Liberal Party to the left, right, or back to its base?
That is to ask last century’s question...
Abbott is right, Taylor might be able do it
There is a palpable, renewed optimism now that Angus Taylor and Jane Hume are at the helm of the Liberal…
The education industry continues to play with radical gender theory
Just when you thought sanity might prevail as more and more overseas doctors, health officials, and politicians are becoming aware…
Who is Angus Taylor, and can he defeat Albanese…
Angus Taylor has become Leader of the Liberal Party after deposing Sussan Ley. The leadership spill came after months of…
Words are not saving lives in Iran
February 14 has been designated worldwide as a ‘Global Day of Action’
Can Angus Taylor free Australia of the green energy nightmare
The renewable energy bubble is popping globally – though not in countries run by green socialist governments, including the UK,…
Liberals dodge near-death experience by electing Angus Taylor
After missing by a whisker being shot in the head, Donald Trump’s instinctive battle cry was to ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’…
34-17 Angus Taylor ousts Sussan Ley in landslide
It wasn’t even close. No one will be surprised to learn that loyalty demanded is weak compared to loyalty earned. After months of…
Is weaponised interdependence today’s ‘nuclear deterrence’?
After the end of the Soviet era, Western nations and multinationals built an interdependent global economy on top of US-centred…
AI, Engels, Friedman – and a peace treaty with history
If Universal Income is rejected, the state will continue to find ways to intrude
Genocide is not what it used to be
Ongoing claims of genocide perpetrated by Israel have reached the point where it is, in modern terms, normative. That is,…
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