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Playing the ‘race card’ against build-to-rent
In the IPA Review’s 2025 Winter Edition, Australian economist (and one of my PhD supervisors) Sinclair Davidson wrote an article…
Where is the voice?
It has been said that a falsehood will be up, breakfasted and be halfway around the world before the truth…
Melbourne, mayhem, and machetes
When Danny Trejo starred in the 2010 violent action film Machete, many went to see it for a few hours…
Labor’s looking at your family home and that spare bedroom
There is a disturbing normalisation happening since Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced his Productivity Roundtable. In the interests of ‘saving the…
From utopia to Skynet, energy is our biggest problem
Eco-salvationist ideologues and neo-Luddites are winning
Trump: invoke Budapest
Violated but not rescinded, the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 was signed by the leaders of the US, UK, Russia, and…
Who cleans up after renewable energy? Not foreign-owned ‘green’ companies! | Mia Schlicht. S3 Ep 6
The transition to ‘renewable energy’ and #netzero is expected to cost Australia upward of $700 billion – just to get…
What a crock. Treasurer’s talkfest forgets to cut spending
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has convened his much-hyped Economic Reform Roundtable, a three-day extravaganza billed as the key to unlocking productivity,…
The vanishing art of pluralism in Australia
Australia bars an Israeli MP: revealing a fragile commitment to free speech and pluralism
What is liberty? Government has caused all the worst parts of history | John Ruddick. S3 Ep 5
New South Wales MLC Libertarian John Ruddick explores what it means to be a ‘Libertarian’ in the West. Legalise drugs?…
Albanese betrayed Israel, says Netanyahu after Visa snub
In a scathing response to yet another Israeli MP having their visa cancelled at the last minute, Israeli Prime Minister…
Forty Years in Exile
For more than four decades in exile, Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has been recognised as the most prominent figure of…
Record Qantas fine reveals Australia’s perverse moral compass
Let’s be very clear – the awarding of a significant proportion of a civil penalty (a fine) to a union…
Productivity or a griftocracy?
Welcome to the Productivity Summit where the word ‘productivity’ means the exact opposite of what you think. The goal is…
The culture wars are the only thing that matters
How many times have conservatives been told ‘not to fight the culture wars’? Worse, how many elected members of the…
The rich are fleeing Starmer’s socialist experiment, the poor are voting Reform | Chris Davies. S3 Ep 4
Socialists in the West have done it – they’ve run out of money. UK Labour is dragging out the old…
Could the Shah of Iran save the west from rising communist threats? | David Flint. S3 Ep 3
Professor David Flint on Donald Trump’s strategic strike against Iran – will the US President eventually go further and advocate…
Judicial tyranny and the death of free speech in Brazil
The Trump Administration has recently imposed tough sanctions under the Magnitsky Act against Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes…
Vale Terence Stamp
Terence Stamp, the renowned British actor known for his roles in Superman and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the…
Have ‘left-acting’ students betrayed themselves?
Recent research suggests nearly nine in ten university students pretend to hold more progressive beliefs than they actually do. While…
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