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Disband or privatise selective public schools in NSW?
There are 17 fully selective public high schools in New South Wales, and on paper, they look like a public…
The hierarchy of entitlement
I know I can overthink what I hear, but words matter. The difficulty (in all of us, to be fair),…
The Albanese economic outlook
Listening to the Prime Minister give his thoughts on Australia’s ‘economic outlook’ could be considered a form of torture. This…
Whose balls are these?
Two weeks ago, after security protocols surrounding Mr Trump’s schedule were ramped up following his decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear…
Disloyal far-left breakaways are coming for Labor
I don’t care what left-wing pundits say about the last election. Political parties shouldn’t chase young voters. It’s obvious from…
Even Tony Abbott is tired of Welcome to Country
Former Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott appeared on an Institute of Public Affairs interview hosted by Daniel Wild. ‘Speaking of…
Promises and lies (they are the same thing)
My tea almost ended up on my keyboard while scrolling through X after I came across the Prime Minister’s latest…
Why ‘Chapter II: The Executive’ in our Constitution needs an overhaul
‘Our Defence Minister – who probably doesn’t know how to fire a gun […] he’s a Labor Party lifelong hack.’…
Albo ‘turned a corner’ and got us stuck on a roundabout
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s incessant claim that Australia has ‘turned a corner’ is wearing thin. Like a motorist stuck on…
Constitutional monarchy aligns with Iran’s identity and future
In Iranian culture and history, monarchy has not merely been a political system it has represented a sacred, cultural, and…
Secretary Kennedy is doing exactly what he promised
RFK Jr’s rise to Secretary of Health in the Trump Administration stands as a triumph many thought impossible. Not only…
The sharp edge of the activist utopia
Glastonbury has long styled itself as the spiritual heartland of British counterculture: a muddy utopia where peace signs, protest chants,…
Bowen’s hydrogen mirage has vanished
The hydrogen economy, once heralded as the future of clean energy, is unravelling as I write. A few years back,…
Vylan and 18C – how the West can be won again.
During what some have dubbed ‘Nuremberg at Glastonbury’, we heard, thanks to the BBC for their unfiltered live-stream, death chants…
How feminist ideology captured psychology
How refreshing to discover an anti-feminist psychiatrist. Very few people in the ‘helping professions’ have the courage to openly oppose…
The Alice in Wonderland productivity roundtable
It is a humbling experience to be a leader in a democracy. It requires the recent Coalition concession that they…
It’s time for a Reform Australia Party
Populism has been defined as an approach to politics that pits a champion of the commonfolk against elites. Right-wing populism…
Fake apocalypses are an economic scam
In a world obsessed with the apocalyptic hellfire of ‘carbon’ and the terror of an imperceptibly warmer climate nowhere near…
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