Politics
Cut the red tape!
Over regulation is holding Australia back
Who really pays for taxes?
It’s always you, the consumer
Albo breaches social contract with Palestinian recognition
In a move that reeks of ideological posturing over prudent statecraft to ensure our national security, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese…
What would Tocqueville say about the NDIS?
Compassion must not give way to dependency
Regulators are choking investment in the name of protection
In February this year, the Federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations & Financial Services delivered a clear and carefully reasoned…
Tony Abbott doesn’t go far enough on energy policy
Australia’s renewable energy subsidies were underpinned by a con-job
Speakman silent while renewables wreck regions
In the annals of political irony, few names fit the bill quite like Mark Speakman. Here we have a man…
Less spending, lower taxes, greater prosperity
It’s time for political leaders to be honest with the Australian people. Hard-working Australians are doing it tough. Living standards…
‘Child safety’ or deliberate political censorship?
Life will never guarantee safety. That is not an excuse to legislate danger.
Australia’s energy grid is in reverse
The Productivity Commission is not what it used to be. Most governments decide what they want to hear and pick…
Australia’s social media ban is a slippery slope
The road to a surveillance state is paved with good intentions
Victorian Labor promises to legislate idiocy
The debased socialist Allan government in Victoria has effectively said to employers – leave the state and don’t bother coming…
Australia’s nuclear blind spot
The GenCost 2024-25 report, published annually by CSIRO in partnership with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), has become a…
Is it time we elected judges in Australia?
Despite the best efforts of legislators and police, ordinary Australians are being held to ransom by activist groups that, in…
Whitewash at QUT
The Middleton Inquiry, commissioned by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is a convenient whitewash of accusations of antisemitism made…
Liberals seek to re-connect with business base
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has realised that the business community is to the Liberals what the unions are to Labor.…
Well done, Labor
Congratulations Australian Labor! As directionless as they are, and notwithstanding only managing to earn the vote of fewer than 3.5…
It’s time to give 16-year-olds the vote
The UK has ‘handed the vote’ to 16-year-olds in a move that has been seen as Sir Keir Starmer trying…
Katter hoist on his own petard
Aussies ‘wise constitutional people’ says judge
Don’t eat the seed corn, Jim
If Jim Chalmers increases the tax burden on capital gains, it would mark the biggest backflip on a tax pledge…
What the Tasmanian election means for the Crown
Since the grant of self-government by the British in 1856, the powers of the Crown in relation to Tasmania have…
The Greens are engrossed in their own irrelevance
Queensland Greens give co-founder Drew Hutton the boot
From Tricastin, with hope
What France’s nuclear backbone can teach the world
Albanese’s anaemic neutrality risks Aukus
In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin…
Is Net Zero environmentally friendly?
Dr Ken Henry addresses the National Press Club
