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What can the NSW Liberals learn from Lone Pine?
On August 6, the Gallipoli Memorial Club hosted a memorial of the Battle of Lone Pine fought on the Gallipoli…
Trump: rejection of religion is the reason for social decay
Donald Trump’s theological acumen goes about as far as an M1A1 tank being driven into deep water. No one can…
Ideology in council
I’m running for Mayor in the City of Sydney council elections because it’s quite clear we are living through a…
They are not ‘peace’ activists
Only the naïve, which seems to include a number of respected commentators, regard the mobs that gather to ‘protest’ against…
Violent peaceful protesters, and other hypocrisies
Australians have long watched overseas riots on the telly. ‘Those crazy foreigners, lucky it doesn’t happen here,’ we’d say. Well,…
Israel is the coal miner’s canary
Miners often took a caged canary down into a coal mine. If it died, the miners knew they had to…
Maga versus Marxism?
Moderators made mincemeat of what will likely be Donald Trump’s only debate with Kamala Harris. ABC News hosts, David Muir…
A Harris Presidency: no cackling matter
President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation made a most curious comment about the forthcoming American election. He indicated that…
Trump’s faith advisor and emissary for freedom
Dr Ben Carson is stepping out of retirement and into a religious freedom advisory role for Donald Trump’s 2024 re-run.…
From Andrew Neil, Chairman of The Spectator
Below is Andrew Neil’s sad but superb letter of resignation from The Spectator. Andrew is a legend of the media…
Lacking moral clarity
A few prominent medical professionals latched on to an urgent call to action that was released by the organisation Physicians…
The conservative student who challenged university wokeness
What a journey my university experience has been… Never would I have thought that this is what university would look…
The RBA is doing its job, so don’t shoot the messenger
People love to hate the RBA at the moment. Along with unnecessarily high energy and grocery bills, mortgage repayments are…
Victorian Greens cooking over gas backflip
It was always a gamble to see how long Victoria’s proposed ban on gas cooktops would last. After all, beautiful,…
The rise of social regulations
The great surge in Australian productivity took place in two decades during the early years of the present century. It…
Dreams and schemes of electric vandals
Speaking about electricity, I’d like to apologise for South Australia as we have been free-riding for a long time on…
Foreign policy realism
The Liberal International Order (LIO) is no more. The days of intervening in foreign lands to protect ‘democracy’ is almost…
Is the Victorian building industry fixable?
The reluctance to make complaints because of fear of reprisal is the obvious headline grab from the Interim Report into…
Orwellian double-speak on international student caps
Australia, and other Western nations, long ago entered an Orwellian era where ‘double-speak’ is becoming increasingly common in politics. It’s…
It’s everyone else’s fault
Jim Chalmers has reacted to news that Australia’s growth has been an anaemic 1 per cent (which with population growth…
Australia’s current recession in perspective
Australia is in a per-capita recession. This should be big news, but most of the mainstream media remains dedicated to…
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