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Can Australia reverse the policies hurtling us toward genteel poverty?
One Nation’s Leader in New South Wales, Mike Newman, has challenged Labor to reveal the full cost of its Net…
The conservatives are coming
A powerful voting alliance between the Liberals, One Nation, and the Nationals could unseat Labor
Introducing the new Queensland Premier … me!
In 1976 I had the growing desire to start my own company, to walk into a room where everyone paid…
Can Pauline Hanson save us from the United Nations?
The Coalition is unlikely to leave the UN, or order an audit of the treaties Australia has been signed up to
Is the Digital Duty of Care a censorship regime?
The Labor government has proposed a Digital Duty of Care, spruiking it as a way to keep children safe and…
Critical Theory in academia: neither critical nor theory
When intellectually dubious frameworks govern how millions of young minds learn to interpret reality, the consequences ripple through politics, culture, and actual social cohesion
THE GREEN GROCERS OF THE APOCALYPSE – communism is back in fashion | S3 Ep 23
In this episode: The ‘Green’ Grocers of the apocalypse bringing communism via your weekly shop. Victoria collapsing underfoot – but…
It’s time to take the UK out of Aukus
Back in January, Spartacus argued that Australia should work with the US to drop the UK from Aukus and bring…
Labor’s credit card surcharge fiasco hits mums and dads
The surcharge ban was sold as ‘money back every time you tap’. A month in, it has been reported that…
Britain cannot enforce half of Oslo
Sanctions against Israel ignore the Palestinian obligations that sustained the Accord
Fizzer in Fiji takes the wind out of Bowen’s turbines
Seeing him fall asleep at his own snooze-fest says it all
Every radical has an origin story
It is not what motivates Tucker Carlson to speak ... it is why so many people listen
Where is Australia’s Gettysburg address?
Once upon a time, there was Camelot, when the world was ruled by US President John F. Kennedy and his…
Wake up, Bowen. Nap time is over!
Chris Bowen gifts Pacific millions as Labor digs Australia further into debt
Albanese is a global citizen, but whose world is it?
Perhaps Latika Bourke asked the question many Australians will be thinking… While Anthony Albanese was preparing to receive the Atlantic…
Ted Lasso was wrong about kindness
Think of the last meeting where somebody floated a dud idea and the whole room knew it. Did anyone say…
Boys are no longer educated, they are emasculated
Boys are struggling in literacy, completion, and behaviour. It is no secret. In March 2026 Education Minister Jason Clare opened…
Shoebridge’s obsession with turtle politics
Labor didn’t put One Nation at the top of the polls. And the Greens can’t knock them off it...
Never forget the evil of October 7
Every single individual responsible for that pogrom must be brought to justice
From Reith to Rishworth and beyond
Adapted from speech given for the HR Nicholls Society 40th annual conference
Rumble in the shallows
Coogee’s impromptu surf wrestling drew a crowd no marketing budget could buy. The real question is whether it could survive being bought...
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