Flat White
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…
A ludicrous proposal to solve the housing crisis
What if the rich and privileged had to rent out their extra rooms?
Albo and Dutton debate was a complete farce
Central to our two-party liberal democracy is political debate. Our system allows for peaceful revolutions at the ballot box. It…
Debates: sound and fury
Tonight Sky News Australia will host a town hall meeting/debate between Mr Albanese and Mr Dutton with an audience supposedly…
Trump’s tariffs: a bad idea executed badly
President Trump has imposed tariffs on almost all countries, with tariffs ranging from 10 per cent up to 46 per…
In defence of the Camino de Santiago
The pilgrimage known as the Camino de Santiago for over a thousand years has drawn people from across the globe…
Liberal Candidate, Benjamin Britton, dis-endorsed
The Liberals are not doing women any favours
Free your mind
Aristotle believed that a majority of humans were in fact slaves by nature. If we include slavery of the mind,…
The right-wing stupidity repeating Liberal Party history
‘Put the majors last’ is the slogan of low-information, low-effort voters who are fed up with being taken for granted…
Man-made warming: today the room, tomorrow the world
A serious question for voters in this federal election campaign: If climate change is a scientific matter, why wasn’t it…
Albo back? Time to leave!
A Scottish migrant ponders where we should go if Albo is re-elected
307,000 Voices
What the New Zealand Treaty Principles Bill teaches us about free speech
Why was Trump the first to address the ideological battle in universities?
The Trump Administration’s survey requesting information about US-funded research at Australian universities was full of questions our own politicians should…
Trump’s tariffs – an historic perspective
It is worth remembering that trade between countries is more than goods and services; it is also about pride and…
Former judge denounces Labor for pushing feminist ideology into the Family Court
‘The Family Court system is in enormous trouble.’ That is a momentous statement given that the speaker, Adelaide barrister Stuart…
Lost brains
And why the Education Minister is hopeless
