Flat White
The trans myth
On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament…
Protecting victims of explicit AI content online
This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’. The Bill is…
Can democracy protect private property?
Net Zero is pushing governments to violate our rights
The textbooks of hate
Palestinian children raised for martyrdom
The story of a nation in flames
The wildfires in northern and northwestern Iran have become headline news around the world. All eyes are fixed on the…
Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals to sit on crossbench
New England is at the heart of Australia. The Canberra bubble may not like it, but Canberra is merely a…
The burqa, dress codes and democracy
The public bushfire over the banning or not of the burqa continues to burn. Sadly, much of the language used…
Queensland’s hospital system is on the brink
Blocked beds cost taxpayer almost $1 billion per year
Parliament cancels A Super Progressive Movie trailer: ‘It might offend someone’
Last night in Canberra, I attended One Nation’s launch of the trailer for A Super Progressive Movie – the feature-length…
Pauline Hanson: I’ve won the people
Why is the Senate terrified of debating a burqa ban?
A party that thinks Vaucluse is Australia
The Liberal Party has discovered a new theory of renewal: if the roof caves in on Wednesday, replace the beams…
NDIS: The compassion racket
Emotional incentives are the most expensive kind
Do you still trust the media?
The seven problems of modern journalism
Liberal Party is dead, and moderates just delivered its eulogy
Yesterday I was toying with Nietzsche’s idea that God is dead, and we have killed him, but in a Menzian…
Australia’s yellow brick road
A pavement going nowhere fast under Albanese and Chalmers
International Men’s Day momentum builds
What does the growing support and recognition of International Men’s Day mean? Last week in Adelaide I hosted my third…
Trump keeps talking, Putin keeps shooting
The failure to conclude Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is Donald Trump’s first really big boo-boo. The failure fuse was lit…
Memo to Jess Wilson: I’ve found your shadow Treasurer for you
On Friday, I spent an afternoon at the H R Nicholls Society annual conference, as a guest of the Society.…
Live not by spin
In 1974, after being arrested for the crime of telling the truth, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released his famous essay Live Not…
Vale Allan Moffat, the gentleman racer
I was seven years old when Allan Moffat and Colin Bond crossed the line 1-2 in their Ford XC Falcon…
The Trump Doctrine in the Americas
Where the Monroe Doctrine meets the Roosevelt Corollary
When ceasefires become a false end
History has taught one stubborn lesson: the page that ends the fighting is not the same thing as the page…
Yes, most young offenders understand their crimes
I heard a mental health professional suggesting that incarcerating young people would not be good for them, even if they…
Boeing Bowen heads up Turkey’s COP-out
This is not leadership, it is frequent-flyer diplomacy.
Leaderships change, but Net Zero policy endures
Since 2015, when an anaemic majority of Liberal MPs replaced Tony Abbott with Malcolm Turnbull, the establishment figures across the…
