Flat White
A modern-day Odyssey
Lessons Australia is only now beginning to learn
The curious case of the wrong feelings
The rise of One Nation is not occurring because millions of Australians have suddenly stopped thinking
WA Parliament should keep the Lord’s Prayer
It is a solemn symbol of the foundational Judeo-Christian values that made our liberal democracy possible
The One Nation of our discontent
The major parties do not grasp how deeply they are hated. That is because the political class is not merely out of touch. It lives in a different world...
Strategy of the pro-Australia parties to the next election
If they cannot say something good about One Nation, they should say nothing at all
Iran containment has failed; Europe must enable the transition
A democratic and secular Iran would remove one of the main drivers of regional instability and mass migration into Europe
International Law and the immigration game
The ‘Views of Hosts’ were a list of regulations made by a statute of 1439 which required that money made…
A mostly cynical, mushroom-cloud-shaped message to Moscow
Was the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to end the war?
Patriotism: the last default
The nation is the only institution Australians are still born into. Do they value it enough?
Census: a question of religion
If we are going to spend three quarters of a billion dollars counting the country, we might at least count it properly
The de-Christianisation of the nation
Christianity is in decline, not just in Australia, but throughout the Western world
Should Australia care where migrants spend their money?
Many skilled migrants, especially from lower-income countries, send discretionary income overseas
Identity politics is the root cause of Albo’s success
And it might just be the greatest challenge to our liberal democracy
Australia’s doctors need their Kory moment
We have seen the regulation of opinion, enforced through the livelihoods of the one profession whose candour patients depend upon most.
Why did it take the ABC 25 days to say ‘sorry’ for torture fantasy?
For nearly a month, the ABC’s leadership sat in silence while the video remained live on their platforms. They moved only when the lawyers moved.
Before we say Amen to change
Western Australia’s Parliament considers removing the Lord’s Prayer from the Legislative Assembly
How times have changed for uranium exporters
The Whitlam government established the Fox Inquiry in 1975. Two reports were released in the following year. One recommended that…
A resurrection in bad faith
Tim Wilson is back on the frontbench. The Liberal creed is not, and the One Nation voter can tell the difference...
If you think AI is a fait accompli…
AI is not a software update. It is an industrial process of extraordinary energy intensity which Australia might not be able to provide...
Why you shouldn’t shrug at New Zealand’s greyhound racing ban
The significance of New Zealand’s ban extends far beyond the racetrack, perhaps even all the way to the family pet
Has Holocaust memory lost its moral compass?
There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp…
Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…
Human society is different from other animal societies because of humanity’s most important idea: legitimate government. Before the beginnings of…
The word-bankers
Increasingly, the establishment in its various guises has stopped fighting over what to do and instead chooses to fight over who owns which words
They knew. They published it. They mandated anyway…
Australia’s pandemic alibi is ‘nobody could have known’. The proportionality test was in the statute. The safety caveat was on the regulator’s own website.
The A-Bombs were necessary, and the most merciful option
As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks in 1945 arrives, many commentators will argue they should never have been…






























