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Regulators are choking investment in the name of protection
In February this year, the Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations & Financial Services delivered a clear and carefully reasoned…
Putin’s word is worthless
History is a tough teacher. Learn and win or ignore and fail. Our track record as humans is rather poor.…
Australian politicians react to Albanese’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state
Protests have consequences. Allowing a mob to strut across the Sydney Harbour Bridge was all the encouragement needed for Labor…
Tony Abbott doesn’t go far enough on energy policy
Australia’s renewable energy subsidies were underpinned by a con-job
Hamas are worse than the Nazis
I would not be surprised if a Nazi sympathiser or member of a neo-Nazi gang were to issue a statement…
A slave-loving people
A few weeks ago, the Sydney-based Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) released an interesting report, warning that, ‘A culture of…
EV hype hits the wall
In the expensive march towards a Net Zero utopia, governments and green advocates have long touted electric vehicles (EVs) as…
Woke, broke, and can’t take a joke
When Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad boasted she has ‘great jeans’ liberals didn’t just hear a pun – they heard…
From Alaska with love: Trump, Putin, and the new Great Game
If you were hoping August would be a quiet month in geopolitics – just you, the footy finals, and maybe…
Speakman silent while renewables wreck regions
In the annals of political irony, few names fit the bill quite like Mark Speakman. Here we have a man…
Hiring Gen Z? I’m not quite over the shock
I think I’m getting old. I don’t feel old; in my mind I’m about 19. I have, though, started saying…
Islamic Nato and the dangers of ideological military alliances
According to a report published by the official news agency of the Islamic Republic (IRNA), the purpose of the recent…
Forced marriage, multiculturalism, and a rise in human trafficking
The Australian Labor Party’s failure to see the failings of multiculturalism might be behind a record rise in human trafficking…
When research becomes a smokescreen for real pain
Abortion is often defended as psychologically safe – and the Turnaway Study is the banner under which that claim marches.…
Dangerous diagnoses
Book review: Suzanne O’Sullivan (2025). The age of diagnosis: Sickness, health and why medicine has gone too far. Hodder. Most…
Less spending, lower taxes, greater prosperity
It’s time for political leaders to be honest with the Australian people. Hard-working Australians are doing it tough. Living standards…
The Lord Mayor wants to decolonise the weather
Melbourne is the epicentre of the Victorian basket case. Its Lord Mayor, Nicholas Reece, (whom some of you may recognise…
Prosperity, not emissions reduction, is the best climate policy
Climate anxiety has long weighed on the national conscience. Moulded by ominous depictions of boiling oceans, sinking continents, and mass…
My café racer removed the stink of propaganda
This bike is a quiet act of defiance against political correctness and risk aversion
‘Child safety’ or deliberate political censorship?
Life will never guarantee safety. That is not an excuse to legislate danger.
His Majesty’s loyal opposition in a bitter Canberra winter
The Albanese government is in a strong position in Parliament, and perhaps the community, in the middle of bitter winter.…
Where’s the global warming when you need it?
The title of this piece is the refrain I use when bumping into Woke acquaintances in my country town when…
Australia’s energy grid is in reverse
The Productivity Commission is not what it used to be. Most governments decide what they want to hear and pick…
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