Netanyahu’s greatest failure
Over the weekend, the IDF confirmed that it killed the Hamas terrorist who commanded the attack on Israel a week…
Is New Zealand about to return to the world stage?
After six years of Labour party rule in New Zealand, the country’s foreign policy brings to mind the line about…
France’s teachers are scared
Rarely has the publication of a book been so providential. The Teachers Are Scared was released in France last Wednesday,…
Can we be honest about Israel and Palestine?
Qui tacet consentire videtur: who keeps silent is seen to consent. That Latin tag haunts the western response to the…
Law and Justice has lost. Where does Poland go now?
If it continues to hold, the likely electoral victory of Poland’s opposition last night is good news for all those…
Britain is not a technocracy
The term ‘technocracy’, or more often ‘technocrat’, is found everywhere. Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are referred to as…
Israel is trapped in a dilemma
Hamas’s attack was designed to massacre as many civilians as possible, while also striking at Israeli military posts along the…
Warren Mundine tells the media elite to ‘wake up’
Up until now, the proposed referendum (which failed over the weekend) has generated a lot of emotion, mostly coming from…
Abomination on the streets of Sydney shamed the NSW government, defiled Australia, and defamed its people
The Splendour in the Grass arts and music festival is an annual festival held in the North Byron Parklands. This year’s…
Why Australia’s Voice vote failed
Since 1999, asking how many referendums Australia has had – then how many have passed – has been a pair…
Australia unites around a new narrative
Australia’s Indigenous people were not ‘rejected’ by the rejection of the Voice referendum, despite what elites in the Teal-Green belt…
Ireland’s troubling response to the Israel attacks
It’s a widely known secret within Israeli diplomatic circles that Ireland is seen as something of a lost cause. While…
Israel’s war with Gaza has exposed China’s impotence
Only last week, China was pushing itself forward to be the regional eminence grise in the Middle East, the powerbroker…
The unstoppable rise of the locum doctor
The career trajectory for doctors used to be relatively simple. After graduating, you would step on the conveyer belt of…
Where did all the boomer bankers go?
There aren’t many Alex types in banking anymore. The popular middle-aged cartoon banker, greyer and greyer since the 1980s, is…
A resounding victory for the ‘No’ campaign
The Voice to Parliament referendum results are in and it is a resounding victory for the ‘No’ campaign which won…
Voice referendum a lesson in standing for fundamental principles instead of vibes
It was John Howard that said, ‘In politics, it is better to be right than popular.’ In other words, people…
Ten million times ‘No’: reflections on the referendum
The barbaric slaughter of many hundreds of Israelis by Palestinian terrorists is a horrifying reminder of the power of hatred…
The crushing defeat of Australia’s divisive Voice referendum
Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, urged his fellow Australians to take ‘the opportunity to make history’ today. And they did,…
New Zealand: out with the old, in with the new
With Christopher Luxon now the next New Zealand Prime Minister and a majority about to be formed in Parliament via…
An Israeli ground assault would be devastating for Gaza
On a patch of scrubland outside the Zikim kibbutz earlier this week, I came across a platoon of Merkava 4…
Congratulations Australia!
Congratulations Australia. You made the right call. Congratulations to all of you ‘No’ volunteers and voters, and all who ran…
Voice result a blow to the Liberal wets
The Voice to Parliament referendum went down in flames. Starting with a staggering 76 per cent approval on binary polling,…
How the National party toppled Labour in New Zealand
Just three years on from Jacinda Ardern’s phenomenal outright victory, New Zealand’s Labour government has collapsed, slumping to half its…
Why did Australia vote No in the Voice referendum?
I’m in Sydney for the Voice referendum result and was ready to settle in and watch the declarations for each…
