Flat White
The executive mum
It is a Friday afternoon in the office. About 3.45pm and productivity is swiftly on the downward trend for the…
Australian democracy – a quick health check
Forgetting the election result (if only that episode of political self-harm could be forgotten), how is Australia’s democratic health looking…
Introducing One Nation’s first WA Senator, Tyron Whitten
One Nation is officially the most successful conservative minor party following the recent election. Today I spoke with Tyron Whitten,…
Woke society replicates 1970s mice experiment
In the 1960s and 70s, the American ethologist and behavioural researcher John B. Calhoun conducted an experiment with mice to…
In conversation with Gemini: a $6 trillion renewable transition
David: Hello, Gemini. Gemini: Hello David. How can I help you? David: What is the cost of a 1 GW nuclear…
The Liberal and National Party – Paterson v Lawson
While the political landscape of Australia has seen numerous battles over the years, between the city and the bush, played…
The Greek tragedy of Joe Biden and the Democrats
Look at how discombobulated the US Democrats now are, along with the left in general. They hero-worship terrorists, attack law…
Is the Coalition positioned for a Net Zero collapse?
‘Plato is my friend – Aristotle is my friend – but my greatest friend is truth.’ – Isaac Newton The…
Unshackling the Greens’ legacy
There was a boatyard near the Southport Yacht club. Like hundreds of boatyards around the nation, it served as a…
PNG: from independence to reunion
Gough was on a mission to ‘change the world’
Labor’s energy crisis ends up on your bill
From Shanghai (perhaps for the last time): I’ve just finished my last teaching gig as a full-time academic. It is…
The time for timidity is over
Let us show the world that freedom still burns brightly
(A failed) Australian realignment
Australia is due a political realignment. The split in the Liberal-National coalition this week could be a good thing if…
Socialism dressed up in the politics of empathy
I remember as a teenager in Cairns going to school every day with long hair wearing my blue jeans, black…
Officially socialist?
‘The Moloch Machine is a symbol of how, as the technical attitude takes hold, it begins not only to reflect…
The age of AI and nuclear energy is coming
There are certain inevitable outcomes which the future holds both worldwide and therefore in Australia. The influence of artificial intelligence…
The net cost of the Coalition
Friends and foes alike are urging the Liberals and the Nationals to continue as a Coalition, but the cost of…
Of saints and sinners
One is dead and likely to be proclaimed a saint at some time, and the other is alive and performing…
Why the nation needs the Nationals to ditch Net Zero
After a couple of weeks of wound-licking following the election, the Coalition has blown apart. Whilst their signature policy to…
Pro-life movement gathers force in NSW
On Wednesday May 7, pro-life ‘rallyers’ came together in Sydney outside of the NSW Parliament House to protest the Greens’…
The Liberal Party’s women problem
While Australians are worried about the housing shortage and how to pay expensive electricity bills, the Liberal Party frets about…
How the right can recapture ‘Greens-land’
I live in probably the greenest part of Australia, politically speaking. My local, state, and federal representatives in inner-city Brisbane…
Victoria: financially and morally bankrupt
Victoria has had just two Treasurers in 11 years – both have played central roles in bankrupting the state. It…
A very different perspective on the Coalition’s divorce
The meteoric rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party this year, which I predicted in The Spectator Australia last July,…
Victoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia
From Shanghai: The Victorian Budget, delivered on May 20, foreshadows the Albanese government’s policy direction. Victoria’s basket-case economy mirrors federal…
