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Has Holocaust memory lost its moral compass?

9 August 2026 11:50 am

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…

8 August 2026 11:40 pm

Human society is different from other animal societies because of humanity’s most important idea: legitimate government. Before the beginnings of…

The word-bankers

8 August 2026 11:13 pm

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…

8 August 2026 2:36 pm

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

7 August 2026 5:56 pm

As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks in 1945 arrives, many commentators will argue they should never have been…

Where did the resourceful Aussie spirit go?

6 August 2026 8:41 pm

The internet provides all the knowledge in the world, so why is our society un-skilling?

Chris Bowen is trying to lock Australia into a Net Zero future

6 August 2026 6:52 pm

The longer Labor is in power, the harder it will be for the Coalition to unpick renewables from the grid

The alibi of skill

5 August 2026 6:05 pm

Spain must answer for what it failed to stop. Canberra must answer for what it decided...

Cheaper electricity?

5 August 2026 5:34 pm

Chris Bowen promises it’s on its way to you soon...

The hidden risks of low-deposit housing under Labor

5 August 2026 1:20 pm

The Albanese government’s housing policies have been sold as the great Australian dream made accessible. Five per cent deposit schemes,…

AI psychosis

5 August 2026 1:06 pm

We all know that the Silicon Valley tech bros are a little detached from reality, but the advent of AI…

The spirit of Cain

4 August 2026 9:15 pm

I have no interest in whether the ABC was embarrassed, whether it should have pulled the clip...

For art’s sake

4 August 2026 8:45 pm

A case for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

There can be no sovereign capability with Net Zero

4 August 2026 4:19 pm

The Albanese government’s fervour for renewable energy and red tape expansion looms large over the otherwise welcome decision to explore…

Internationalism: where no one is privileged, even in their homeland

4 August 2026 4:07 pm

Carl von Clausewitz said that war was politics by other means, one method of advancing your interests among many. In…

The education beneath the education

4 August 2026 3:44 pm

Elaine Ellinger on the formation of the Islamic mind

Vale Rod Liddle

4 August 2026 10:47 am

On the sudden and very sad passing of Rod Liddle, who died aged 66 following a short illness: Rod Liddle…

The refusal of rescue

3 August 2026 4:16 pm

A love for the island A young girl crests a sandstone ridge above a homestead in Tasmania’s bush and finds…

Immigration and national identity

3 August 2026 2:51 pm

It is entirely legitimate for Australians to consider the potential impact of immigration

Two views on the death of the West

3 August 2026 12:51 pm

And why its people are voluntarily removing themselves from history

Single point of obsolescence

3 August 2026 12:06 am

Australia could find itself without a credible undersea force

Christopher Nolan says AI is a ‘Trojan horse’

2 August 2026 11:48 pm

While Hollywood races to make movies cheaper with AI, Christopher Nolan remains deeply sceptical of the technology, and younger audiences…

The political kelpie

2 August 2026 11:03 pm

People and ideas that influence politics without holding office

The insensitive ears on Islamic terrorism

1 August 2026 7:27 pm

Why the Western Left keeping erasing the horror in their collective minds

Australia’s inevitable energy dystopia

1 August 2026 5:25 pm

There are two parallel realities competing for supremacy...