Flat White
Cold shoulder for good intentions
80,000 fans joined Coldplay’s Chris Martin in a spontaneous shoutout to Charlie Kirk’s family at a UK concert over the…
The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk: a Muslim’s elegy
I was seeing patients when the breaking news flashed on the TV screen in the waiting room. By the time…
A few good men and the truth we can’t handle
In that classic scene from the movie A Few Good Men, Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, played by Tom Cruise, is defending…
Australia’s housing push is bipartisan
The Liberal Party has two traditions, conservatism and support for free markets. Normally, those movements are allies, but housing policy…
Climate Risk Assessment as a political manifesto
The Australian Climate Service this week released its National Climate Risk Assessment – a document cloaked in the authority of science…
Western Civilisation is not okay
Last Thursday was R U OK Day. To me, it’s never rated a mention. It feels performative and replete with…
Perfect knowledge
Feminism has been made illegal by the Sex Discrimination Act
Questions without answers
As an Old Bushy from the Riverina, I can claim to have always had an abiding interest in the future…
Left’s abandonment of women
For all the hashtags, halo-polishing and sloganeering, the left has abandoned women. Their willingness to sacrifice women and girls as…
University assassinations: from Tehran 1949 to the United States
On February 5, 1949, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Aryamehr was the target of an assassination attempt during the inauguration of…
Charlie Kirk and the defence of Freedom
More debate, not fear, is how we honour him
The biggest medical betrayal since Thalidomide
Across the world, frontline reproductive medicine professionals are sounding the alarm over mounting signals of harm in fertility, pregnancy, and…
Productivity vs the rent seekers’ tea party
How doomed is Australia? This much. The ABS, bless their public-service hearts, churns out mountains of data. Pity hardly anyone…
Wanted: an effective Opposition
It is to Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke that we attribute the saying: ‘Those that fail to learn from history are…
When they came for the Jews – they attacked our shared values
Pastor Martin Niemöller’s words from Nazi Germany are uncomfortably relevant: ‘First, they came for the Jews, and I did not…
The case of Dr Jereth Kok: a profession under attack
The suspension of Melbourne GP Dr Jereth Kok by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) stands as a warning…
The murder of Charlie Kirk: a warning to the West
Three days have passed since Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah, and I am writing this still in a state…
The rise of the NatCon movement
Why the American Right are winning, and the Liberals aren’t
Nampijinpa Price’s sacking illuminates the battle lines
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s sacking from the Liberal front bench this week is further reminder that the fault line in Australian…
Gallipoli Scholarship gives Anzac kids a fighting chance
The Gallipoli Club organised a commemoration event for the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Lone Pine on August 5,…
The Left cannot handle the truth
Charlie Kirk was killed for one reason, because he spoke the truth. The Left cannot handle the truth. Charlie had…
Senator Price is right to comment on matters of public interest
When Senator Jacinta Price commented on Australian immigration policy, and in particular Indian immigration, she was doing precisely what she…
Debate, not demonisation: this is the lesson of Charlie Kirk
I awoke this morning to the news Charlie Kirk had been shot. Minutes later his death was confirmed. The 31-year-old…
Senate inquiry into climate and energy seeks truth, allegedly
An attempt by the Greens to silence climate change dissent
Today we are all Charlie
Time has dragged us into a public conversation that feels darker, noisier, and stripped of moral clarity. Rage now travels…
