Flat White
Neither the leaders we deserve nor the ones we need
This past weekend I was watching The Dark Knight (2008). Not my favourite franchise, but critically acclaimed. One thing that stood…
Tony Abbott’s most hated budget was his greatest act of love
Politics punishes truth-tellers who arrive before the pain is obvious. In 2014, Tony Abbott and his Treasurer Joe Hockey delivered…
A three-word cure for Antisemitism
Labor-run NSW considers banning ‘Globalise the Intifada’
A political earthquake is rumbling beneath our feet
Anyone who rules out the possibility of a seismic change in the political scene in Australia is not paying attention.…
Customer satisfaction surveys
The mindless pursuit of smugness
Albanese ignores Australia’s natural gifts
Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have… This was a message a visiting pastor pressed home to…
Something rotten in Denmark
Greenland as the apogee of liberalism
The hollow republic
Betrayal of Iran’s revolutionary pillars
Welcome to the Pornocracy
A society in which political power, culture, relationships, and identity are shaped and dominated by the purveyors of pornography
The digital viceroys: India’s techno-feudal trap
The rising backlash in the United States over H-1B visas is not merely a dispute over jobs or immigration. It…
President Trump and the fate of the Iranian people
The credibility of the United States is at stake
The Liberals can be saved … by you
The structural failure of the Liberal Party, which is the reason we set up the Liberal Reform Association, has sadly…
Australia’s bigger, better idea
William Wentworth said: ‘Every man that is honest and industrious can sit under his own vine and his own fig-tree.’…
Scott Morrison almost got it right
If you want to know why the Australian Liberal Party is where it is read Scott Morrison’s piece on fundamentalist…
Chalmers’ rate-and-switch
It really should be called the 95 per cent Debt Servitude Scheme
RBA interest rate hike: our plight under Opposition light
From the Press Gallery: Below my seat in the press gallery, the Liberal Party sits in Parliament as a shadow…
Debt, debt, debt, debt, debt
There are a lot of people who comfort themselves by thinking that the Commonwealth government’s $1 trillion of debt is…
The death of debate: how media pluralism collapsed
From newspapers to platforms and the breakdown of civic discourse
Mob justice
The danger of social media pile-ons
Liberals’ last hurrah?
Outside of mortgage repayments, motor vehicle rego charges, and council rates, politics is like an annoying blowfly that interrupts the…
The Minneapolis paradox: when Liberal democracy turns against itself
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, two deaths have crystallised a distinctly American paradox. Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse,…
Australia’s renewable energy or monorail policy?
I hate to infringe on the sacred writing territory of Labor Dry, but desperate times call for shameless imitation. There…
Why the merry-go-round can’t save the circus
There’s a special kind of panic that sets in when people confuse motion with progress. Things start spinning. Jobs change…
Banning of political parties and reasonable debate
Two possible consequences of the new hate speech legislation
Without the ribbon. Without the bracelet. Not without the fight…
The hostages are home. The symbols have come off. The responsibility has not. On Monday, January 26, 2026, I removed…
