Flat White
Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs
The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party’s problems, but who is going to…
What would Menzies do?
Switching parties as a way to rebuild conservatism
The emperor has no clothes: Australia’s energy reality check
Renewables have become a progressive identity. Nuclear has been coded as conservative.
The NatCons do not tolerate antisemitism
I see my old sparring partner Louise Clegg has begun the new year where she left off in 2025 with…
An open letter to Australian leadership
On the nature of radical evil and the duties of power
Why Australia’s News Bargaining Incentive isn’t about news or bargaining
Through the proposed News Bargaining Incentive, Australia is considering how to force global digital platforms like Meta and Google to…
The silence of the lambs
How Australia is quietly training itself to obey
Australia is failing the test of history
Albanese did not lack information. He lacked resolve...
History never repeats?
History never repeats – that was a song by Split Enz back in 1981. The title is the opening line, with…
Prediction markets are not gambling
They are ‘open loops’ that produce actionable intelligence
Government to ban all sharks from having teeth
After three shark attacks in less than 24 hours, the government called an emergency session of Parliament and has now…
Are the ‘hate group’ laws all about control?
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Anthony Albanese must have been pondering these sage words as he presided…
Orange is the new blue
I am no longer a card-carrying Liberal. I’ve quit...
More shark attacks are inevitable
I wrote a piece for the Spectator last September in the wake of the fatal shark attack on Sydney Northern…
One Nation on the rise driven by the Opposition’s incompetence
Any poll taken in the next few weeks will show an even sharper increase in the vote for One Nation.…
Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault
From the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Following yesterday’s shemozzle, and after a good night’s sleep, I rode my new scrambler into…
The inversion of evil
When everything is fascism, nothing is
The test Australia is failing
A ritual of solidarity – and an indictment
US Supreme Court wades into the transgender issue
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) very recently heard arguments in two Constitutional cases involving the right of transgender women athletes…
Condolences today, (in)action tomorrow
Bridget McKenzie says PM failed to rise to the test of leadership
Labor’s Islamic terrorism deflection is desperate
Parliament returns today for a rare special sitting recalled early by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Labor’s original intention was to…
Free speech, faith, and the danger of legislating virtue
Christianity’s forgotten role in free speech
Mapping today’s post-Cold War geoeconomic order
Today’s geopolitical world is more like the turbulent and bloody 19th to mid-20th centuries than the Cold War long period…
Bushfires in context
The same thing has been happening for hundreds of years
You cannot fix education without first fixing the culture
Australia has allowed ideology to shape curriculum content
