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Starmtrooper visits The Empire

2 March 2025 1:00 am

If the New World had a philosopher, it would be Thomas Hobbes. It would involve an account of the power…

Income splitting

1 March 2025 4:55 pm

One Nation has announced a new policy that would give ‘wage-earning couples with families a choice to file tax returns…

Greyhound racing: a heritage sport on the brink of extinction

1 March 2025 2:05 pm

Greyhound racing is on the brink of extinction. Once a celebrated heritage sport, it is now legal only in England,…

Individuals and crowds

1 March 2025 1:39 pm

Beware the creation of a mass narrative

The Greens’ policies are about to come crashing down

1 March 2025 12:22 am

Senator Hanson-Young’s inability to answer simple questions about Australia’s defence is representative of the Greens’ naïve worldview. In my opinion,…

How family tax cuts could help Australia thrive

1 March 2025 12:03 am

The constant increase in taxes and cost of living pressures have been particularly hard on families, making it difficult for…

The (un)environmental Teals

27 February 2025 3:54 pm

Australians are tired of virtue signalling

The androgyny project

27 February 2025 2:00 pm

A brave new world brought to you by ‘third wave’ feminism

Stepping over the past

27 February 2025 1:04 pm

The calculated risk of mass migration has failed

How ‘free’ is free speech?

26 February 2025 12:57 pm

Two of my summer reading books had me thinking afresh about free speech. The first one was The Happiest Man…

The Great Australian Empire of Nothing, according to some

26 February 2025 12:10 pm

As Dennis the peasant tells John Cleese, the King: ‘Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system…

Lie down with dogs, get fleas

26 February 2025 11:20 am

The Free Democratic Party (FDP), the closest-to-my-views political party in Germany, has been wiped out and will not even be…

Australia needs DOGE

25 February 2025 11:36 pm

Isn’t it amazing how the cost of living crisis seems to affect everybody apart from our bureaucrats… While the Australian…

Albo is officially on the ropes after knocking himself out

25 February 2025 11:04 pm

After three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, the reduced…

Whyalla: a leading edge in Australian industrial econocide

25 February 2025 12:14 pm

The attempts of the Commonwealth and South Australian governments to rescue the Whyalla steelworks is the latest ad hoc measure…

Are we prepared for the next pandemic?

25 February 2025 11:21 am

In early 2020, as Covid spread across the globe, Australia scrambled to respond. Protective equipment ran short, national stockpiles had…

Trump’s Gaza plan: calling for an Islamic act of compassion?

25 February 2025 10:57 am

President Donald Trump recently swept aside 70 years of conventional wisdom surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict and proposed to temporarily depopulate…

Housing affordability is killing the Aussie dream

24 February 2025 3:53 pm

The steady decline of fertility rates in Australia presents a multifaceted challenge with wide-reaching implications for the nation’s social, cultural,…

The Trojan Voice

24 February 2025 10:07 am

Australians need to be alert – and alarmed

Pro-life doctors in NSW face the axe

24 February 2025 9:56 am

A new bill introduced into the NSW Parliament titled Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 has thrown…

Consumed with hatred: Hamas’ frenzied killing of Jews

24 February 2025 9:46 am

Many assume that Hamas is distinctly at war with the Israelis and not specifically with the Jews. However, while Hamas…

Auction on stupidity

23 February 2025 7:28 pm

The uniparty vows to double down on Medicare spending spree

Patton recognition

23 February 2025 7:15 pm

Now you see him, now you don’t

E-safety censorship cannot save us from ancient hate

23 February 2025 11:38 am

There is something loathsome about bureaucrats promising to ‘keep people safe’ by controlling the public’s access to information. I was…

Trump is not talking like a US leader

22 February 2025 3:07 pm

Donald Trump’s latest remarks on Ukraine are not just factually flawed but dangerously misleading. His claim that Ukraine ‘talked’ the…