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Opening the Overton window
Liberal leader Peter Dutton is winning in the polls as he continues to take his cues from the United Australia…
The turning point that shattered the climate change narrative
For the climate change zealots and their profiteering masters, October 2024 may go down as one of the most damaging…
Miracles do happen
Last week we had great news. A brilliant young Chinese PhD student won his appeal against the sexual assault convictions…
We have seen this show before
Streaming services have created a new strain of déjà vu, and this is how it works. You start watching a…
Open letter to Albanese from an 11-year-old
Dear Prime Minister Albanese, My name is Leo Fineberg and I am an 11-year-old boy who is a proud Zionist…
The new tribalism: A revolt against progressive intellectuals?
National populism is now on the rise everywhere, representing a broad-based popular revolt against the values imposed by progressive intellectuals…
Confronting terror
In the aftermath of the horrific attack on Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue, I find myself unable to stay silent. The…
Trump: the great global reset
The re-election of Donald Trump resets the world… His former presidency was almost whimsical. Trump was a rank outsider with…
Bureaucracy and Safetyism: the ugly sisters
One of the more annoying phrases that has slithered its way into public discussion is: ‘If it saves one life,…
Positano, Amalfi coast, Italy
The little motor boat with the red fish sign flying on what would have been a mast had it been…
Ocean of peace in a world of war
As a consequence of my Scottish Jewish heritage, I only read a newspaper if it is free. Since Covid, newspapers…
What’s happening in Korea?
I love the Republic of Korea. It is a country I can visit over and over without ever tiring of…
The Department of Inefficiency and Public Waste
How spending on Renewable energy is costing us a fortune
The precursor to Armageddon?
On Thursday, November 21, Russia, in an escalation of its war with Ukraine, fired a new kind of missile at…
The era of Truthophobia
Have you noticed how our language has shifted to ‘untruths’, ‘misinformation’, or the more nefarious accusation of ‘disinformation’? Apparently, misinformation…
Cash is under attack
We are being forced into a cashless society by two powerful forces – the banks (seeking more money) and the…
The limits to wind farming
150 years ago the Chief Surveyor in South Australia, George Goyder, drew a line across the map to warn prospective…
Is Australia copying Pakistan’s electricity grid?
In the quiet residential enclaves of Islamabad, my wife and I learned to live with an unreliable electricity network. Blackouts…
More ABC silliness in the silly season
It is officially the silly season during which people tend to wear funny red and green hats and have way…
Learning from the past
Beginning in 1914, the first world war closed our overseas markets and our significant imports were cut off. Disrupted shipping…
Nato membership for Ukraine: a path to peace or prolonged conflict?
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent comments suggesting that Nato protection for Ukrainian territories still under Kyiv’s control could end the ‘hot…
Dulce et Decorum est
It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. At least, that is the translation of the Latin epitaph…
The misinformation bill is dead, but equally oppressive laws coming
While the federal Misinformation and Disinformation Bill has been abandoned, planned new Victorian anti-hate speech laws will widen the net…
Will the misinformation zombie rise in ’25?
The stunning rebuke of the federal government’s proposed misinformation laws has seen freedom of speech live to fight another day.…
More university bureaucracy, more problems
The modern world has a bureaucracy problem. When confronted with an issue, the typical response from government is to create…
