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Why Australia’s News Bargaining Incentive isn’t about news or bargaining
Through the proposed News Bargaining Incentive, Australia is considering how to force global digital platforms like Meta and Google to…
The silence of the lambs
How Australia is quietly training itself to obey
Australia is failing the test of history
Albanese did not lack information. He lacked resolve...
History never repeats?
History never repeats – that was a song by Split Enz back in 1981. The title is the opening line, with…
Prediction markets are not gambling
They are ‘open loops’ that produce actionable intelligence
Government to ban all sharks from having teeth
After three shark attacks in less than 24 hours, the government called an emergency session of Parliament and has now…
Are the ‘hate group’ laws all about control?
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Anthony Albanese must have been pondering these sage words as he presided…
Orange is the new blue
I am no longer a card-carrying Liberal. I’ve quit...
More shark attacks are inevitable
I wrote a piece for the Spectator last September in the wake of the fatal shark attack on Sydney Northern…
One Nation on the rise driven by the Opposition’s incompetence
Any poll taken in the next few weeks will show an even sharper increase in the vote for One Nation.…
Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault
From the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Following yesterday’s shemozzle, and after a good night’s sleep, I rode my new scrambler into…
The inversion of evil
When everything is fascism, nothing is
The test Australia is failing
A ritual of solidarity – and an indictment
US Supreme Court wades into the transgender issue
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) very recently heard arguments in two Constitutional cases involving the right of transgender women athletes…
Condolences today, (in)action tomorrow
Bridget McKenzie says PM failed to rise to the test of leadership
Labor’s Islamic terrorism deflection is desperate
Parliament returns today for a rare special sitting recalled early by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Labor’s original intention was to…
Free speech, faith, and the danger of legislating virtue
Christianity’s forgotten role in free speech
Mapping today’s post-Cold War geoeconomic order
Today’s geopolitical world is more like the turbulent and bloody 19th to mid-20th centuries than the Cold War long period…
Bushfires in context
The same thing has been happening for hundreds of years
You cannot fix education without first fixing the culture
Australia has allowed ideology to shape curriculum content
Nobel Peace Prize forgets its realist origins and goes full Woke
Few legacies have been as deliberately engineered as that of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor whose name is now synonymous…
Have tariffs ever worked? (asking for a mate)
China’s trade surplus hit $1.2 trillion in 2025 – a record, up 20 per cent from the previous year’s record…
After years on the sidelines, Liberals have joined the free speech debate
Turns out the culture wars do matter...
UK bans Eva Vlaardingerbroek
On January 13, 2026, British authorities abruptly revoked the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) of Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek, effectively…
Why Australia’s new ‘hate speech’ bill threatens our national security
The adoption of legislation that adversely affects, even prevents, free speech has been of increasing concern in Australia. Next week,…
