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Impossible business growth underpins house of cards Budget
From Parliament House, Canberra: Last year Australia experienced record numbers of business failures. While the percentage of businesses was not…
Budget 2025: out of ideas and full of fiscal analgesics
Keating predicted a Banana Republic and it is gradually coming true
A society suffering from ‘Labelism’
Misogynist. Patriarchy. Cis-Gendered. Woke. Labels en masse. We are a society that has succumbed to the sectionality, ostracisation, and disintegration…
Be suspicious when you hear the words ‘no evidence’
In every organisation there is usually an Achilles’ Heel, some fact which if widely known or understood, can cause damage,either…
Working class men are leaving the workforce
The Australian newspaper (March 24, 2025) has started to discuss the issue of working-age people relying on welfare rather than…
Are we due another rate cut?
With the next rate call in sight, the RBA is probably unlikely to make another cut, in spite of the…
Regional Australians are the biggest budget losers
From the Canberra Press Gallery: Regional Australia is the engine room of private sector activity in Australia. With the Budget…
The Romanian electoral farce
In his address to the 61st Munich Security Conference, held on February 14, the American Vice President, JD Vance, criticised…
A new paradigm for Cancer treatment
Overreach and the battle for low-cost, effective alternatives
Budget top priority should be income tax cuts
The Government didn’t plan to be giving today’s Budget, and the Opposition didn’t expect to have to give a Budget…
We can’t afford Albo’s phoney election campaign
From the National Press Club: Australia is in a phoney election campaign. We’re in that period where we know an…
The low-down on the legal profession
Sydney’s Macquarie Law School is attracting public criticism for compelling law students to include Acknowledgment of Country (a form of…
How to secure America’s Pacific and European allies during Trump 2.0
President Trump’s intentions to strike a peace deal in Ukraine without security guarantees for Kyiv and his possible relinquishing of…
Peter Dutton must play for keeps
Peter Dutton and the Federal Liberal Party are now on the slide ahead of the upcoming Federal Election. The RedBridge…
Cash (was) King
The Reserve Bank recently published statistics that showed cash payments for everyday purchases have fallen from 70 per cent in…
I recommend not walking the Camino de Santiago
A lefty friend who just loves political arguments, currently living in Buenos Aires, made a rare concession. He’s usually so…
Adolescence is not a template for social media policy
What was Netflix’s Adolescence? An undoubtedly skilled portrayal of provoking fiction by an ensemble of gifted actors. What is it…
One Nation means putting Australia first
When the Liberal-Labor uniparty is not ripping us off – they’re ripping us apart. That’s what it feels like listening…
Electric shock: it’s much worse than you think
Startled, I stared at my electricity bill. My consumption over the quarter had decreased by 4.62 per cent. The bill,…
Is labour market reform possible, or dead?
There is a glaring lack of enthusiasm for labour market reform coming into the federal election. Yet some maintain that…
Weak government response to antisemitism has left councils to fight alone
In January the world stopped to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz. It…
Population in decline?
There is no contemporary political issue that can survive rapid demographic change. Mass depopulation is the problem that no one…
Defending the West: Kevin Donnelly’s anthology against anarchy
Education expert Dr Kevin Donnelly AM is both someone at the tip of the spear and someone who understands why…
The pandemic’s exposé
Moral cowardice, medical betrayal, and the slide toward tyranny
Woke fatigue: why audiences reject Hollywood
Disney isn’t having an easy time. The company has produced flop after flop in recent years, with few exceptions, and…
