In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Has King Charles wandered into politics?
King Charles III has been careful to remain out of the political mud-slinging disaster of UK politics. Well, aside from…
Fallacies about the Ukraine War
I don’t know if I just have a very strong gene for contrarian thinking. Or if years of working as…
A diplomatic dust-up for the ages
With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine faced an in-tray from hell. Yet, their shock…
The vanishing American
For the past few weeks, well before the first light of dawn, hundreds of big fishing boats towed behind equally…
Oradour and October 7
Back in 1944, the Germans entered a small town in western France, Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred all but two or three…
Trump is a peacemaker, not a bully
President Zelenskyy of Ukraine met US President Donald Trump in the White House, initially to finalise the detail on a…
Starmtrooper visits The Empire
If the New World had a philosopher, it would be Thomas Hobbes. It would involve an account of the power…
Income splitting
One Nation has announced a new policy that would give ‘wage-earning couples with families a choice to file tax returns…
Greyhound racing: a heritage sport on the brink of extinction
Greyhound racing is on the brink of extinction. Once a celebrated heritage sport, it is now legal only in England,…
The Greens’ policies are about to come crashing down
Senator Hanson-Young’s inability to answer simple questions about Australia’s defence is representative of the Greens’ naïve worldview. In my opinion,…
How family tax cuts could help Australia thrive
The constant increase in taxes and cost of living pressures have been particularly hard on families, making it difficult for…
WHO crowdfunds to save 760 GREMLIN labs
The World Health Organisation was one of the first targets of Donald Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ agenda. On January 20,…
Trump Gaza: the AI video breaking the internet
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump woke up and decided to break the internet. It wasn’t particularly difficult. He posted a…
Adam Bandt and the climate refugees
The first rule of left-wing politics is: find a target victim group. The second rule of left-wing politics is: if…
Trump’s Gold Card is genius
US President Donald Trump has found a way to force the Democrats to argue against migration at a time when the…
How ‘free’ is free speech?
Two of my summer reading books had me thinking afresh about free speech. The first one was The Happiest Man…
The Great Australian Empire of Nothing, according to some
As Dennis the peasant tells John Cleese, the King: ‘Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system…
Lie down with dogs, get fleas
The Free Democratic Party (FDP), the closest-to-my-views political party in Germany, has been wiped out and will not even be…
Australia needs DOGE
Isn’t it amazing how the cost of living crisis seems to affect everybody apart from our bureaucrats… While the Australian…
Albo is officially on the ropes after knocking himself out
After three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, the reduced…
Labor’s boring old Mediscare election
Labor has run out of money, run out of credibility, and run out of ideas. There is no other explanation…
