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Deaths of despair can be avoided
I have in front of me the final report of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide. I am…
Painted into the climate change corner
While Anthony Albanese welcomed the King, warming to climate action the other day in Samoa, I was enjoying a BBQ…
Labor’s green gang is killing it
Much is being said about the Greens’ ‘failure’ in the Queensland election. At the time of writing, the Greens have…
Dissecting the socialist mind
When discussing the Queensland election with an acquaintance, I lambasted the transgressions of the Miles Labor government which has since…
Is India BRIC(K)ed-in?
Despite joining the Quad alliance in 2022, (Australia, Japan, India, and the US), India continues to tread a difficult, non-aligned…
Astonishing cost, miserable return
It will take a long time to undo the damage done to our energy grid
The dawn of a post-national Australia
The globalisation of our economy is a 20th Century phenomenon that has attracted much commentary in the past, yet it…
A wonky prime minister and straw man treasurer
We don’t have a Willy Wonka and a Candy Man. We have a wonky Prime Minister and a straw man…
To defend the Crown is to defend Australia’s honour
The happy festivities that took place during King Charles III’s tour were a celebration of Australia, as it was intended.…
My campaign to protect cash
It’s one thing for retailers to go cash-only, but quite another for taxpayer-funded government agencies to blithely adopt the same…
Lidia Thorpe should not resign, but be removed from the Senate
Senator Lidia Thorpe’s behaviour recently is completely unacceptable and, in my opinion, should result in her being removed from Parliament.…
Dwindling delights and mobile frights
A former Liberal Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, told us life wasn’t meant to be easy, but his borrowed quote left…
International student export earnings overstated as problems grow
Mark Twain famously popularised the saying, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ Here he referred…
Copacabana cock-up
Holiday homes for the party elite. High-rise slums for the proles
Land tax is socialist and should be banned
Stamp duty makes it more difficult to purchase a home. Not only does it increase the initial outlay required, but…
Nearly everything you assume about colonialism and slavery is wrong
Nigel Biggar’s, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?
Previous fears of overpopulation in nations with high population densities have been replaced by concerns about a declining and ageing…
The neo-liberal consensus is coming apart
The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and…
Crisafulli: me-tooing into office?
With polling day nigh in the Queensland election campaign, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has appeared incredibly weak, vacillating, and indecisive…
Misinformation bill resurrects Mussolini’s attack on economic freedom
On September 12, 2024, Communications Minister for the incumbent Albanese government Michelle Rowland introduced the Communications Legislation Amendment Bill 2024…
Albo the Houso strikes again
With his exquisite political judgement, and with an election looming in the next six months or so, Albo intends to…
Kamala Harris and the coconut tree speech
On May 10, 2023, Kamala Harris, the Democrat Party Presidential candidate, delivered a speech in the White House to Hispanic…
Take teacher training away from universities
These places are openly in the business of destroying our country
Sandwich stimulus: Miles is a bad comedy
Although commonly attributed to Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, the expression, ‘there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch’ long…
Australia is already a successful nuclear nation
ANSTO – the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation – recently celebrated 70 years since Australia’s nuclear age began in…
