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Without the ribbon. Without the bracelet. Not without the fight…
The hostages are home. The symbols have come off. The responsibility has not. On Monday, January 26, 2026, I removed…
To be Australian
Toward the end of last year (before the Bondi terrorist attack), I was talking with a young woman whose parents…
The response to ‘Javid Shah’ was bullets
The uprising of the Iranian people, carried by the chant of ‘Javid Shah’, was drowned in blood. A chant that…
Cold feet on the leadership spill
The Nationals are very very very united behind David Littleproud, with the party room unlikely to second Colin Boyce’s leadership challenge. My…
I’m sorry, Prime Minister
On Australia Day, I found myself reflecting on the Prime Minister’s memorial service speech at the Sydney Opera House. And…
Why Western silence will burn Iran (and the world)
The year 2026 has marked a grim milestone in Iranian history. The recent report by The Times, estimating a staggering…
Hate speech laws under suspicion for two-tier policing
It has been a week since Labor’s rushed hate speech bill was chaperoned into law by the Liberals and already…
Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups
The evidence of disadvantage in Indigenous communities throughout the world is overwhelming. There ought to be funding for programs designed…
When immigration worked for the nation, not the United Nations
They marched in their tens of thousands, a river of discontent flowing through the heart of Australia’s cities on its…
Are the Nationals an equal Coalition partner?
Give it a couple of weeks, or more precisely, a couple of pay cycles, and the National Party will be…
Dealing with Trump
‘So they debated, willing things to be as they had always been, unwilling to know that events are made by…
The rapid death of free speech
There’s no doubt John Stuart Mill regards free speech as an essential characteristic of any liberal, democratic society. Mill argues,…
Why Labor polices speech, not the terror watchlist
Anthony Albanese’s post-Bondi hate speech bill, rammed through Parliament in chaotic January 2026 sessions, epitomises everything wrong with the Western…
Back to 2014: For Syria, a new ISIS genocide is here
For friends and allies of the Kurdish people, their worst fears are being manifested. Kurdish, Christian, and Yazidi communities are…
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