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Carbon fear is the new normal
The thing I find most frightening about the World Economic Forum is that they keep saying the quiet bits out…
A tough week to be a Victorian Liberal
No doubt, it has been a tough week to be a Liberal in Victoria. You do not find many politicians…
This is freedom: Isle of Man Tourist Trophy
On the last Saturday in May, the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy begins. It is the most important thing in…
St Greta’s school for the environment?
It is conceivable that sometime soon a group of parents and teachers will establish an entire school devoted to the…
Career politicians destroyed community votes
Writing this, I realise that Australian politics has been reshaped in the last week. This election is the first real…
Concerning cosmetic cowboys
My wife and I were walking by the beach the other evening. We got talking about wrinkles and scars, tattoos…
What’s next for the Liberal Democrats?
The Senate count is complex and won’t be complete for another week or more. However, around 60 per cent of…
It’s the economy, stupid…
Quite the wreckage, huh? 17 seats down, a host of future stars put to the sword, and the Prime Minister…
Education or indoctrination? Babies and toddlers taught LGBTQ
Last Wednesday was my son’s last day at his daycare centre. It had been a good place for him, starting…
Woke bureaucraziness and the Libs
The current Australian Liberal Party’s manifesto states that they believe in ‘the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples’ and…
Recapturing the Liberal heartland
I have immense respect for Jim Allan – not least because he’s one of the board members to whom I…
We’re missing those subversive and dangerous ideas
The biggest shifts in culture have always come out of subcultures or scenes that go mainstream. It was mostly African…
Is this what ‘success’ looks like?
As someone who has been looking at Covid-related data since the outbreak of the pandemic and a resident of the…
Tanya Plibersek’s dark lord, Peter Dutton
Almost ten years in the wilderness, and Labor have learned nothing. Newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised on Sunday…
Bernie Finn: how the mighty have fallen
Two giants have fallen. One has been falling for quite some time and it looks like it will be broken…
Best show in town: Heard v. Depp
The skip-bin fire that is the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation trial will wrap up within days and then the nine-person…
Liberal-Turnbull tryst ends in tears
As scribes and commentators across the country sit down to write their thoughts on the political events of Saturday past,…
What would Menzies do?
Now the federal election is over, the triennial festival of finger pointing and bloodletting of the losing party can commence.…
Economic policy is like commanding the sea
As the story goes, Xerxes of Persia, during the invasion of Greece that played setting to the famous last stand…
Beyond Roe v. Wade
As the frenzy in America escalates around the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that challenges Roe v. Wade, I was reminded…
Democracy: a game of Blind Man’s Buff
This week’s election results should be of little surprise to those who pay attention to trends. I am referring particularly…
This is worse than we thought
It’s much worse than we thought. The ALP will govern in its own right, but will be forced into extreme…
Jim Allan, you’re dreamin’
James Allan’s take on the worst night on the Liberal Party’s history is, by and large, right. The leafy suburbs…
Labor chased Menzies’ forgotten people – and won
Grief – that was my feeling on election night. It was not a new emotion. Grief has followed me these…
Australia is already at Net Zero
Australia has a landmass of 7,692,024 square kilometres with a sparse inland population, greenhouse gas-emitting livestock, and heavy industry. Combined…
