Flat White
Paradigm shift, please
Australian politics is no longer working
When the mob wins, we lose
Vandalism of history is not reconciliation
Mad about the climate
When my wife and I visited Japan in springtime a few years ago, we first stayed in Ueno, near Tokyo.…
Climate indoctrination is not an education
While the LNP election campaign was ineffective and amateurish one positive was the slogan ‘education, not indoctrination’. As countless parents…
Two remarkable Australian victories
The Coalition, led by Sussan Ley, is renewing itself under a new vision of small government and lower taxes, family,…
Young Australians unwilling to pay more than $50 for Net Zero
The Queensland government’s bold leadership in defunding the Environmental Defenders Office might seem out of step with the values of…
One more seat and One Nation joins the majors
The Coalition appears to have abandoned their followers who sweated blood for them over the past 30 years. Further, the…
Russia the Barbarian: King of the Flies
Soviet historians often portrayed the days of 1945 as the glorious liberation of Europe from the Nazi threat. That could…
The farmer, the science, and the agenda
Farmers across Australia are revolting against the wanton destruction of their land to satisfy the renewed and re-elected climate alarmism…
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…
