In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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Violated but not rescinded, the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 was signed by the leaders of the US, UK, Russia, and…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…
Forty Years in Exile
For more than four decades in exile, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has been recognised as the most prominent figure of…
Record Qantas fine reveals Australia’s perverse moral compass
Let’s be very clear – the awarding of a significant proportion of a civil penalty (a fine) to a union…
Productivity or a griftocracy?
Welcome to the Productivity Summit where the word ‘productivity’ means the exact opposite of what you think. The goal is…
The culture wars are the only thing that matters
How many times have conservatives been told ‘not to fight the culture wars’? Worse, how many elected members of the…
Editor’s picks
Magazine
Minister Marles unfit for military service
Why are we flogging off our historic military assets?
Can Taylor fix the broken covenant?
First, he must re-establish Liberal authority
Taylor to the rescue
There’s a new conservative Liberal leader in town. Get behind him
