In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Novak’s Churchill-esque victory speech
Novak Djokovic has returned as the world’s number one tennis player. He was crowned King at Melbourne Park following his…
Schwab’s last stand
Klaus Schwab, founder and head of the World Economic Forum (who many joke resembles a villain from Hollywood central casting),…
The Australian socialist experiment: capturing capitalism
A sweeping new Australian socialist experiment is well underway. The signs are everywhere. But it’s unique… This is socialism with…
Saving medicine from the health bureaucracy
We genuinely urge doctors involved with medical regulation not to go down with the sinking ship of authoritarian censorship and…
Novak Djokovic: this trophy is yours, as much as it is mine
I am normally patriotic about sport, but when Novak Djokovic handed Australian Alex de Minaur his arse in the fourth…
The Menu: delicious satire on the emptiness of consumerism
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, ‘The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation.’ For…
‘Chalming’ no one: Labor romances communism
Jim Chalmers is proving to be the most iconoclastic Treasurer since the Whitlam government’s Jim Cairns, a man who only…
What (conservative) women want
Something strange has been happening in conservative politics. The Liberal Party is being told that the only way it can…
New Zealand mourns the ‘loss’ of its kind princess
Whether you admire or loathe Jacinda Ardern as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, you have to admit, she was…
Left to rot: why hasn’t the Cerberus been recovered and displayed?
It seems very strange that in Australia we have – neglected, forlorn, and abandoned – one of the foremost examples…
Jacinda Ardern: New Zealand’s failed feminist icon
Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as Prime Minister has seen commentary varying from hagiographic flim-flam to an accurate accounting of what was promised,…
The truth about Australia’s education system: bullying, indoctrination, and intimidation
95 per cent of the next generation will be far-left Marxists. Where does that leave Australia?
Eventbrite cancels Dr Peter McCullough: ‘dangerous speech’ or the rise of truth?
This morning, ticket platform Eventbrite sent out an email informing its customers that the hotly anticipated event, Dr Peter McCullough Covid-19…
Who would vote ‘yes’ to racism?
How I would love to live in an Australia that advances fairly… Imagine the progress for common good to be…
The dodgy tradies of Davos
It’s a scene familiar to every Australian who’s ever turned on their TV between the hours of 5-7pm – the…
When search engines speak ill of the dead
News media prides itself on being even-handed when reporting on serious issues and crimes. Of course, it doesn’t always do…
Court win for Christian foster care applicants is a victory for common sense and a fair go
In 2017, West Australian couple Byron and Keira Hordyk were rejected as ‘unsafe’ by fostering agency, Wanslea Family Services, to…
Deadly Western trends
Australia is about as far away from the war on Ukraine as one can get, but this week it showed…
Former Liberal MP John Hyde awarded OAM
The Mannkal Economic Education Foundation has released a statement congratulating former Western Australian Liberal MP, John Hyde, for his wonderful…
The Australia Day debate: an exercise in puritanical Gnosticism
Michael Mansell, an Aboriginal Elder from the Aboriginal Land council Tasmania and secretary of the independence movement The Aboriginal Provisional…
Immigration to integration: a personal account
Effective integration is not easy for a migrant. When I entered Australia about twenty-five years ago, I felt like a…
Energy chaos: the shape of things to come
Australian governments have made energy policies focused on achieving higher shares of renewable energy that they claim is the cheapest…
A (desperate) town called ‘Alice’
The video records of what is happening in Australia’s red centre are disturbing at so many levels. This is a…
NSW cannot fix the housing crisis by killing rent bidding
Like a Miss Universe contestant declaring her audacious ambition to end world hunger, the government is telling us that they…
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