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The net cost of the Coalition

23 May 2025 12:37 pm

Friends and foes alike are urging the Liberals and the Nationals to continue as a Coalition, but the cost of…

Of saints and sinners

23 May 2025 12:20 am

One is dead and likely to be proclaimed a saint at some time, and the other is alive and performing…

Why the nation needs the Nationals to ditch Net Zero

22 May 2025 11:56 pm

After a couple of weeks of wound-licking following the election, the Coalition has blown apart. Whilst their signature policy to…

Pro-life movement gathers force in NSW

22 May 2025 4:21 pm

On Wednesday May 7, pro-life ‘rallyers’ came together in Sydney outside of the NSW Parliament House to protest the Greens’…

The Liberal Party’s women problem

22 May 2025 3:26 pm

While Australians are worried about the housing shortage and how to pay expensive electricity bills, the Liberal Party frets about…

How the right can recapture ‘Greens-land’

21 May 2025 12:30 pm

I live in probably the greenest part of Australia, politically speaking. My local, state, and federal representatives in inner-city Brisbane…

Victoria: financially and morally bankrupt

21 May 2025 11:34 am

Victoria has had just two Treasurers in 11 years – both have played central roles in bankrupting the state. It…

A very different perspective on the Coalition’s divorce

21 May 2025 10:40 am

The meteoric rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party this year, which I predicted in The Spectator Australia last July,…

Victoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia

21 May 2025 9:31 am

From Shanghai: The Victorian Budget, delivered on May 20, foreshadows the Albanese government’s policy direction. Victoria’s basket-case economy mirrors federal…

Coalition split a disaster for conservatives, at least in the short term

20 May 2025 2:00 pm

Today’s bombshell announcement by Nationals Leader, David Littleproud, that his party is ending its Coalition agreement with the Liberals, adds…

I hate to say it, but the Nats need to split

20 May 2025 11:56 am

From Shanghai: Sir Robert Menzies is my political hero. I’ve written about him for the Robert Menzies Institute and to…

Success – conviction pending…

20 May 2025 11:15 am

Australians already have a Labor Party. They don’t need another one.

Everyone has lost control of the digital age

20 May 2025 11:03 am

American conservatives currently riding the Streetcar Named American Democracy could well imagine they’re seeing the hated Streetcar Named Woke rumbling…

Albo’s Disraeli moment: stealing the Coalition’s clothes

20 May 2025 5:08 am

Post-election commentary has focused on the various leadership changes for both the Coalition and government front bench. Much more important,…

Liberal Party: reform and rebuild

20 May 2025 5:00 am

Families are the forgotten people

The cost-of-living’s dirty secret

19 May 2025 2:00 am

Every Australian voiced an opinion about the cost-of-living crisis during the months leading into the Australian federal election. The election…

The smoking ruins of Mordor

19 May 2025 1:20 am

As we stand amidst the black, smoking ruins of the 2025 election, there are two or three small green shoots.…

Why Australia should watch Istanbul

19 May 2025 1:00 am

Fragile peace talks in Ukraine signal wider stakes

An island of strangers

18 May 2025 3:55 pm

Is this the end of the UK’s open borders experiment?

We can do better than the WHO

18 May 2025 3:05 pm

Countries should be in control of their health

The last thing the Liberals need are gender quotas

17 May 2025 4:22 pm

The Liberal Party is scrambling for solutions to broaden the party’s appeal after a crushing election defeat, with some suggesting…

It’s time to kick up a stink

17 May 2025 12:20 pm

Conservatives should become activists for their cause

Chris Bowen’s socialist, energy-poor future

17 May 2025 1:00 am

Anthony ‘Albo’ Albanese is determined to undermine (poor pun) Australia’s economy in pursuit of a socialist, energy-poor future. The evidence…

Beyond the sliding doors election

16 May 2025 3:44 pm

‘This election…is a sliding doors moment for our nation,’ declared Peter Dutton, and maybe he was right, and in ways…

Even a meme can expose a lack of values

16 May 2025 1:32 pm

Why Young Liberal social media campaign failed