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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…
What’s the point of ASIO?
The ASIO chief is this bizarre figure in the Australian political landscape that pops up every now and then to…
Whyalla: a leading edge in Australian industrial econocide
The attempts of the Commonwealth and South Australian governments to rescue the Whyalla steelworks is the latest ad hoc measure…
Are we prepared for the next pandemic?
In early 2020, as Covid spread across the globe, Australia scrambled to respond. Protective equipment ran short, national stockpiles had…
Trump’s Gaza plan: calling for an Islamic act of compassion?
President Donald Trump recently swept aside 70 years of conventional wisdom surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict and proposed to temporarily depopulate…
Trump, Vance, Musk, and Milei: the men who defeated the Left
‘Will it be that, in 200 years’ time, there is a historical note in the history textbooks… There was something…
Housing affordability is killing the Aussie dream
The steady decline of fertility rates in Australia presents a multifaceted challenge with wide-reaching implications for the nation’s social, cultural,…
Pro-life doctors in NSW face the axe
A new bill introduced into the NSW Parliament titled Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 has thrown…
Consumed with hatred: Hamas’ frenzied killing of Jews
Many assume that Hamas is distinctly at war with the Israelis and not specifically with the Jews. However, while Hamas…
E-safety censorship cannot save us from ancient hate
There is something loathsome about bureaucrats promising to ‘keep people safe’ by controlling the public’s access to information. I was…
Dutton proposes stripping citizenship from migrants who spread hate
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has suggested that migrants could lose their citizenship if they are found to express hatred toward…
Trump is not talking like a US leader
Donald Trump’s latest remarks on Ukraine are not just factually flawed but dangerously misleading. His claim that Ukraine ‘talked’ the…
Be more resilient…?
My friend – a Canadian who had the gall to move back to Canada – asked me, ‘Lizzie, why are…
Power speaking truth to irrelevance
In his historic speech at the Munich Security Conference, JD Vance told European leaders not to shut down opinions with…
Dutton and Abbott have got Ukraine wrong, not Trump
Peter Dutton has said that Trump is wrong on Ukraine, while Tony Abbott has claimed that the US President is…
Senator Gerard Rennick calls out hate speech overreach
An Australian Senator is protesting new hate speech legislation, likening lockdowns on free speech to Covid-era overreach. People First Senator…
Green steel? Go woke, go broke
After the Premier of South Australia put Whyalla Steelworks into administration, Mr Albanese found another $2.4 billion of taxpayers’ money…
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