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One Nation rises as the broad church collapses

9 February 2026 12:25 pm

I’m the President of One Nation South Australia, and I was genuinely pleased when Cory Bernardi agreed to join our…

Did we learn anything from the first global warming debate?

9 February 2026 10:46 am

One of the enduring and acrimonious controversies in Australian politics concerns the disagreements between those who believe obstinately in the…

The submarine delusion

8 February 2026 6:55 pm

Capability must arrive, not inspire

Taming the two-wheeled Wild West

8 February 2026 6:35 pm

Why e-bike anarchy must end

Hate laws or political tools?

8 February 2026 4:47 pm

Australia’s hate speech crackdown hits the wrong targets

I’ve had enough. Have you?

6 February 2026 9:07 pm

This is our home, our nation, and our children’s future

Neither the leaders we deserve nor the ones we need

6 February 2026 6:14 pm

This past weekend I was watching The Dark Knight (2008). Not my favourite franchise, but critically acclaimed. One thing that stood…

Tony Abbott’s most hated budget was his greatest act of love

6 February 2026 1:16 pm

Politics punishes truth-tellers who arrive before the pain is obvious. In 2014, Tony Abbott and his Treasurer Joe Hockey delivered…

A three-word cure for Antisemitism

6 February 2026 9:42 am

Labor-run NSW considers banning ‘Globalise the Intifada’

A political earthquake is rumbling beneath our feet

6 February 2026 1:56 am

Anyone who rules out the possibility of a seismic change in the political scene in Australia is not paying attention.…

Customer satisfaction surveys

6 February 2026 1:41 am

The mindless pursuit of smugness

Albanese ignores Australia’s natural gifts

6 February 2026 1:27 am

Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have… This was a message a visiting pastor pressed home to…

Something rotten in Denmark

5 February 2026 8:06 pm

Greenland as the apogee of liberalism

The hollow republic

5 February 2026 6:12 pm

Betrayal of Iran’s revolutionary pillars

Welcome to the Pornocracy

5 February 2026 1:28 pm

A society in which political power, culture, relationships, and identity are shaped and dominated by the purveyors of pornography

The digital viceroys: India’s techno-feudal trap

5 February 2026 11:27 am

The rising backlash in the United States over H-1B visas is not merely a dispute over jobs or immigration. It…

President Trump and the fate of the Iranian people

4 February 2026 8:43 pm

The credibility of the United States is at stake

The Liberals can be saved … by you

4 February 2026 8:14 pm

The structural failure of the Liberal Party, which is the reason we set up the Liberal Reform Association, has sadly…

Australia’s bigger, better idea

4 February 2026 11:10 am

William Wentworth said: ‘Every man that is honest and industrious can sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree.’…

Scott Morrison almost got it right

4 February 2026 10:07 am

If you want to know why the Australian Liberal Party is where it is read Scott Morrison’s piece on fundamentalist…

Chalmers’ rate-and-switch

3 February 2026 4:13 pm

It really should be called the 95 per cent Debt Servitude Scheme

RBA interest rate hike: our plight under Opposition light

3 February 2026 3:46 pm

From the Press Gallery: Below my seat in the press gallery, the Liberal Party sits in Parliament as a shadow…

Debt, debt, debt, debt, debt

2 February 2026 11:54 am

There are a lot of people who comfort themselves by thinking that the Commonwealth government’s $1 trillion of debt is…

The death of debate: how media pluralism collapsed

2 February 2026 11:43 am

From newspapers to platforms and the breakdown of civic discourse

Mob justice

2 February 2026 11:12 am

The danger of social media pile-ons