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Australian decadence
Is Australia a ‘decadent’ society? The term ‘decadence’ implies promiscuity. But, as American writer Ross Douthat explains, it’s a term…
The US guaranteed its oil, why can’t Australia?
We are held back by a dithering class of politicians
Should the ABC be privatised? A modest valuation…
There is something exquisitely self-referential about the ABC reporting on its own strike. It is the media equivalent of a…
Liberals are fools to support social media censorship
As Everett Dirksen once memorably said, there is an evil party and a stupid party. Sometimes, both parties come together…
The West’s parasite politics
And the great fraud of the contemporary world...
Artemis foul? The future of space has a distinct Musk about it
On Wednesday, NASA lit the fuse on its Artemis II rocket, and the world watched four astronauts begin the first…
Three minutes of absolutely nothing
In 1979, US President Jimmy Carter went on national television during an oil crisis and delivered a 32-minute address diagnosing…
What did I miss?
Australia’s political week in fast-forward
The new rotten boroughs of accountability
Technology should not replace Parliament; it should discipline it
The breach of trust fuelling One Nation
One Nation is now the most intriguing phenomenon in Australian politics. Thirty years after Pauline Hanson first entered federal Parliament,…
Why Canberra wasn’t told
Iran war was not ‘demented’, just overdue...
From Atousa to Noor
In this article, I seek to trace a continuum between the distant past of my homeland, Iran, and its imagined…
Moira Deeming’s preselection chaos demands Liberal Party reform
This can never be allowed to happen again
How Australia can prosper in a lawless world
Navigating the epidemic of world lawlessness – part two
Build-up to war
Navigating the epidemic of world lawlessness – part one
Policies for prosperity
Grantlee Kieza’s biography of Mary Reibey (1777-1855), the woman pictured on the $20 note, provides a splendid account of how…
Deeming them unfit to govern
An extinction level event for the party of Menzies
Democracy makes you rich
How can you make ordinary people prosperous? Free trade and the market economy was George Reid’s controversial policy (Prime Minister…
The ghosts of lockdowns past
In a macabre parallel with the Easter celebration, the National Cabinet was resurrected this week, dragged back into life, ostensibly…
The questions that keep us alive
The future of Jewish life will not be secured by persuading the world, but by inspiring our children
The ‘Bros’ unite on a scapegoat
...and they have settled on the Jew
Moira Deeming must move to One Nation
From Macau: The Victorian Liberals have done it again, only this time the farce has played out in under 24…
A new North Korea in the making
The opaque curtain around Iran
Trust, control, and crisis: a tale of two nations
Iran demonstrates civilisation cohesion while Australia behaves as a low-trust society
You cannot reform a snake: venom is in its DNA
Maga and Miga take the fight to the Mullahs of Iran
