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Labor’s citizenship blitz: a masterclass in misreading migrants
Labor’s recent push to fast-track citizenship ceremonies ahead of the election is yet another spectacular demonstration of their disconnect from…
Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Ukraine … Australia?
The world is once again at a crossroads. With Donald Trump’s political resurgence and Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions, a disturbing…
Australia’s five best and worst public speaking professions
The five top public speaking professions: University lecturers Comedians Newsreaders Broadcasters Actors The five worst professional speakers by profession: Politicians…
Woke West stands with Ukraine, Trump deals with reality
The rules-based world order has been destroyed by the Wokerati. The United Nations, an institution designed to address the shortcomings…
Fallacies about the Ukraine War
I don’t know if I just have a very strong gene for contrarian thinking. Or if years of working as…
A diplomatic dust-up for the ages
With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine faced an in-tray from hell. Yet, their shock…
The vanishing American
For the past few weeks, well before the first light of dawn, hundreds of big fishing boats towed behind equally…
Oradour and October 7
Back in 1944, the Germans entered a small town in western France, Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred all but two or three…
Starmtrooper visits The Empire
If the New World had a philosopher, it would be Thomas Hobbes. It would involve an account of the power…
Income splitting
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
Greyhound racing is on the brink of extinction. Once a celebrated heritage sport, it is now legal only in England,…
Individuals and crowds
Beware the creation of a mass narrative
The Greens’ policies are about to come crashing down
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
The constant increase in taxes and cost of living pressures have been particularly hard on families, making it difficult for…
The (un)environmental Teals
Australians are tired of virtue signalling
The androgyny project
A brave new world brought to you by ‘third wave’ feminism
Stepping over the past
The calculated risk of mass migration has failed
How ‘free’ is free speech?
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
President Donald Trump recently swept aside 70 years of conventional wisdom surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict and proposed to temporarily depopulate…
