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Umbrellas and allies: a Venetian parable for the PM
I’m going to pack an umbrella for Venice this week. Last time I was there, an angry grey sky closed…
The question that won’t go away
Now, more than ever, Australia should remember its history and the decisions made by our earlier Prime Ministers, Billy Hughes…
Australians reject Albanese’s Welcome to Country
Albanese’s re-elected government was already on the nose before Parliament returned, and yet one of its first acts was to…
Australia, the Switzerland of the South Pacific
Peta Credlin has speculated that Albanese would like Australia to be a neutral Switzerland of the South Pacific ‘but without…
Don’t eat the seed corn, Jim
If Jim Chalmers increases the tax burden on capital gains, it would mark the biggest backflip on a tax pledge…
What the Tasmanian election means for the Crown
Since the grant of self-government by the British in 1856, the powers of the Crown in relation to Tasmania have…
Artificial Intelligence: the Ozempic of the mind
AI is just the latest technology in a sequence of inventions that have made humanity dumber. GPS destroyed our spatial…
Nobody said it was easy, but Coldplaygate is dumb
The internet, known for its calm, rational takes on everything from geopolitics to cat videos, has finally lost its collective…
The Greens are engrossed in their own irrelevance
Queensland Greens give co-founder Drew Hutton the boot
Australia, what are you now, and where are you going?
Hello World, I have known you for 80 years. I have adored your beauty, been overwhelmed with awe by your…
Western Left silent as hundreds of Druze murdered
When I was in Israel in May this year, I was fortunate to experience a traditional dinner in the home…
Democracy can rise from dictatorship without bloodshed
A fundamental transformation in the structure of power – especially in a country like Iran with a turbulent political history – requires…
Albanese has traded a Western partner for a communist master
The Prime Minister and his harem of advisors, bureaucrats, and industry hangers-on have returned after a six-day tour in China.…
Whoops! I ended up on a ‘potential enemies’ list
Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like the idea of AI making lists of ‘potential enemies’ based on prior interactions.…
‘Hey Dad, it’s John Stone on the phone’ – Vale John Owen Stone 1929-2025
It is with great sadness and affection that we report on the death of John Stone, a long-time contributor to…
The perils of Trump’s tariff gamble
During an Oval Office meeting with Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte, President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a tariff of…
One Nation under truth, life, and sovereignty
In an age when political decisions are often dictated by focus groups, moral relativism, and international bureaucracies, One Nation stands…
Albanese’s anaemic neutrality risks Aukus
In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin…
A (very) dirty story
Back in May of this year, I attended a skin cancer clinic for the excision of a lesion suspected to…
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Minister Marles unfit for military service
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There’s a new conservative Liberal leader in town. Get behind him
