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Time for PNG to wake up to Canberra’s woke agenda!

12 August 2025 11:10 am

The term ‘Kokoda’ has been hijacked to support Canberra’s Woke agenda for our Pacific neighbours. Their campaign of stealth began…

Regulators are choking investment in the name of protection

12 August 2025 10:53 am

In February this year, the Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations & Financial Services delivered a clear and carefully reasoned…

Putin’s word is worthless

12 August 2025 10:39 am

History is a tough teacher. Learn and win or ignore and fail. Our track record as humans is rather poor.…

Tony Abbott doesn’t go far enough on energy policy

11 August 2025 4:14 pm

Australia’s renewable energy subsidies were underpinned by a con-job

Hamas are worse than the Nazis

11 August 2025 3:44 pm

I would not be surprised if a Nazi sympathiser or member of a neo-Nazi gang were to issue a statement…

A slave-loving people

11 August 2025 2:53 pm

A few weeks ago, the Sydney-based Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) released an interesting report, warning that, ‘A culture of…

EV hype hits the wall

11 August 2025 10:28 am

In the expensive march towards a Net Zero utopia, governments and green advocates have long touted electric vehicles (EVs) as…

Woke, broke, and can’t take a joke

10 August 2025 7:31 pm

When Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad boasted she has ‘great jeans’ liberals didn’t just hear a pun – they heard…

From Alaska with love: Trump, Putin, and the new Great Game

10 August 2025 6:18 pm

If you were hoping August would be a quiet month in geopolitics – just you, the footy finals, and maybe…

Speakman silent while renewables wreck regions

10 August 2025 5:13 pm

In the annals of political irony, few names fit the bill quite like Mark Speakman. Here we have a man…

Hiring Gen Z? I’m not quite over the shock

9 August 2025 7:56 pm

I think I’m getting old. I don’t feel old; in my mind I’m about 19. I have, though, started saying…

Islamic Nato and the dangers of ideological military alliances

9 August 2025 7:26 pm

According to a report published by the official news agency of the Islamic Republic (IRNA), the purpose of the recent…

The ongoing choice facing UK conservatives

9 August 2025 3:57 pm

Tribalism or an alliance to an unparalleled opportunity?

Forced marriage, multiculturalism, and a rise in human trafficking

9 August 2025 1:17 pm

The Australian Labor Party’s failure to see the failings of multiculturalism might be behind a record rise in human trafficking…

When research becomes a smokescreen for real pain

8 August 2025 1:17 pm

Abortion is often defended as psychologically safe – and the Turnaway Study is the banner under which that claim marches.…

Drive it like you stole it

7 August 2025 10:10 pm

The insane taxes pushing cars out of reach for Australians

Dangerous diagnoses

7 August 2025 1:42 pm

Book review: Suzanne O’Sullivan (2025). The age of diagnosis: Sickness, health and why medicine has gone too far. Hodder. Most…

Less spending, lower taxes, greater prosperity

7 August 2025 12:56 pm

It’s time for political leaders to be honest with the Australian people. Hard-working Australians are doing it tough. Living standards…

Prosperity, not emissions reduction, is the best climate policy

6 August 2025 4:13 pm

Climate anxiety has long weighed on the national conscience. Moulded by ominous depictions of boiling oceans, sinking continents, and mass…

My café racer removed the stink of propaganda

6 August 2025 2:15 pm

This bike is a quiet act of defiance against political correctness and risk aversion

‘Child safety’ or deliberate political censorship?

6 August 2025 12:57 pm

Life will never guarantee safety. That is not an excuse to legislate danger.

His Majesty’s loyal opposition in a bitter Canberra winter

6 August 2025 1:00 am

The Albanese government is in a strong position in Parliament, and perhaps the community, in the middle of bitter winter.…

Where’s the global warming when you need it?

5 August 2025 7:06 pm

The title of this piece is the refrain I use when bumping into Woke acquaintances in my country town when…

Australia’s energy grid is in reverse

5 August 2025 6:21 pm

The Productivity Commission is not what it used to be. Most governments decide what they want to hear and pick…

Forget Westminster, welcome to Trumpminster!

5 August 2025 5:08 pm

Britain’s on strike again, it’s raining still, and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has just been called ‘a nasty guy’ again –…