Flat White
Drink and despair
Our esteemed editor invited me to lunch a while ago. After three hours I had to leave because Qantas doesn’t…
Veterans: Australia’s most devalued and forgotten
In Australia, we do a damn poor job of looking after our veterans. This Anzac Day, can we just admit…
Anzac memories
War and peace and history
A thousand men are marching by
A thousand men are marching by A glassy stare in every eye As we pass the sky grows red We…
Why Trump’s withdrawal benefits Ukraine
While counter-intuitive, the withdrawal by President Donald Trump of the United States from peace negotiations – and even from materially…
The real reason the Coalition will lose the election
‘Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.’ It’s the kind of quote that makes your eyes roll – insipid, overused, and…
Albo wants to tax ‘future you’
If you want to get ahead in Australia, it will never happen under a Labor-Greens government. Albo and Adam are…
Chemotherapy’s debilitating side-effects: drug companies must eliminate them
…remembering my youngest brother Giles
The major parties have given up on Australians having children
Australia is facing a civilisational moment on the eve of the next federal election. The reason is simple: we are…
The death throes of the fanatical Left
The French Enlightenment writer Denis Diderot wrote in an essay that ‘from fanaticism to barbarism is only one step’. The…
The lazy Liberal leader effect
Just Tuesday morning I wrote on X that, ‘To position oneself for leadership of the Liberal Party, one must distance…
Third debate attitude reflects leadership: we ain’t got either
Greetings from Bhutan: The first time I was teaching leadership in Bhutan, for our end-of-course celebration (held two nights before…
A nation of delayed common sense
We are a nation of delayed common sense. We often take too long to get there. Both sides of politics…
One Nation is freeing Australian families
‘Families’ are being exploited in the Federal Election race. Having been shoved to the back of the queue behind ‘climate…
Stopping the colonisation of women’s rights
A landmark UK court judgment has confirmed that equity legislation should define women as a biological sex for the purpose…
The ABC’s climate change humiliation ritual
There is now a religious ritual that the ABC performs, a set of words that an individual must utter to…
Our ‘Beliefs’
We live in a representative democracy. That is, we elect people to represent us in Parliament House and act on…
The Forgotten People: have they been forgotten again?
In 1942, during the height of the horrors of the second world war, the RT Hon. Robert Gordon Menzies made…
‘Green Death’ tax from a Labor-Greens minority government?
The Greens don’t want you to succeed. They want to take your money so they can turn Australia into a…
Is it time for a Pope Donald?
The Roman Catholic Church must turn away from the Francis era
Pope Francis, the 266th pope, has died
Pope Francis died this morning, Easter Monday, at 7:35 am Rome time, at the age of 88. His last public…
Why the establishment is targeting Elon Musk
If there’s one idea that the rise of social media has proven it’s that a large proportion of the population…
Bracket creep and soft economists
The Albanese government reduced the Stage 3 tax cuts that were designed to address some the burden of bracket creep.…
Reason v magical climate thinking – voters have no choice
As Australians prepare to vote for the nature of their future on May 3, I can report that back in…
The 25 hard and fast facts that prove Labor is gaslighting Australians
There is a mountain of evidence to support Peter Dutton’s claim that young Australians are being indoctrinated with woke ideology at our schools and universities
