Flat White
Long live Chris Bowen!
As you pop your eyeballs back in place, lift your jaw off the floor, and pour a stiff drink after…
Wondering about winter
As I bask in the warm Autumn sunshine under a deep blue sky in Adelaide, I wonder when one of…
Trump’s tariff pause and the game theory gamble
President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pause tariffs for 90 days on most US trading partners – while escalating them…
Forget a tariff-induced recession, Australians have been in recession for two years
The standard of living in Australia has been in sharp focus during this election campaign. Both major parties have been…
Tone-deaf Greens disco on Anzac Day
Australia is in a strange space where the traditions that enabled our high standard of living are being taken for…
Albo’s ‘Blight on the Hill’ is blinding the MSM
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she wants to ‘make Australia great again’. The reaction? ‘They finally said the quiet bit out…
Labor’s green gamble
Why a cautious transition keeps the lights on
Starmer says Net Zero nanny state will fortify UK against Trump’s Tariffs
Trump’s tariffs are set to ‘make Britain work again’. These were the assertions of Net-Zero nanny state leader, Keir Starmer,…
The Left’s eternal war against private schools
Here we go again… The socialist deconstructionists are flagging one of their favourite ideas, at least, that is the impression…
Ideas – the fuel for democracy
An Open Letter to the leader of the Liberal Party, Peter Dutton, who is vying to be the next Prime Minister of Australia
Did my Coalition policy launch dream come true, and other thoughts
Here I am again, a glass of red this time rather than a gin and tonic. Goodness knows, I need…
Dutton’s tax-deductible interest for first homebuyers is a breakthrough
Like many conservatives, I have been waiting for something original from the Coalition that will differentiate them from the socialists.…
Albo isn’t winning, but the Coalition is losing
Australians have every reason to be nervous about another three years of a Labor government. The last three years have…
I dreamt about the Coalition’s policy launch
The Coalition formally launches its election campaign on Sunday. After a fortnight of a Seinfeld election – an election about…
Greens announce dumbest policy ever: ‘renters’ right to solar’
Owning a rental property in Australia is becoming a complete farce. Why would you bother owning a rental property when…
The problem with modelling
One of my economics professors at university once said that when someone tells you the results of their economic modelling,…
Adam Bandt tempts Albo with a couple of housing treats
If Prime Minister Albanese does not outright reject Adam Bandt’s demand to Grandfather negative gearing and scrap 50 per cent…
Jacinta’s dirty deal enshrines cancel culture in Victorian law
Cancel culture has become the law in Victoria. Not only are ‘hateful’ opinions, whatever that means, now unlawful, but under…
Ted O’Brien was all over Chris Bowen like a wind turbine on an endangered bird
From the National Press Club: I love the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), even if it’s gone so Woke that…
Angus goes to the mattresses, majority don’t like Adam
Your Correspondent in Canberra: It was quite the day in the election campaign. Adam Bandt addressed a sparse-looking crowd at…
Keith Windschuttle remembered
Yesterday evening, Keith Windschuttle died after a prolonged battle with ill health. The legacy of a creative is best expressed…
Too skewed, too gentlemanly
So here’s my quick, two key takeaways verdict on last night’s Sky News Australia leaders’ debate. First off, the questions…
Panem et Circenses: spending billions we don’t have
The 2032 Olympic Games, to be held in Brisbane, are the latest Antipodean version of half of the 2,000-year-old concept…
Here in Riverina, I’m taking the fight to the uniparty
I’ve spent my life in regional Australia. I’ve never seen the political landscape as broken as it is right now,…
Can bold energy policy turn the polls for Dutton?
The Liberals are behind Labor in polls for the May 3 election. Can they reverse this? Here is a possible…
