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Unshackling the Greens’ legacy
There was a boatyard near the Southport Yacht club. Like hundreds of boatyards around the nation, it served as a…
Labor’s energy crisis ends up on your bill
From Shanghai (perhaps for the last time): I’ve just finished my last teaching gig as a full-time academic. It is…
The shrinking habitat of Net Zero extremists
Net Zero is under threat in New Zealand, according to headlines last week. Although the population of New Zealand and…
Is Jim Chalmers’ super tax turning Teal seats blue?
Believe it or not, the battle for the blue ribbon in Goldstein is still going on. Yesterday, the AEC announced…
(A failed) Australian realignment
Australia is due a political realignment. The split in the Liberal-National coalition this week could be a good thing if…
Socialism dressed up in the politics of empathy
I remember as a teenager in Cairns going to school every day with long hair wearing my blue jeans, black…
Officially socialist?
‘The Moloch Machine is a symbol of how, as the technical attitude takes hold, it begins not only to reflect…
The age of AI and nuclear energy is coming
There are certain inevitable outcomes which the future holds both worldwide and therefore in Australia. The influence of artificial intelligence…
The net cost of the Coalition
Friends and foes alike are urging the Liberals and the Nationals to continue as a Coalition, but the cost of…
Of saints and sinners
One is dead and likely to be proclaimed a saint at some time, and the other is alive and performing…
Why the nation needs the Nationals to ditch Net Zero
After a couple of weeks of wound-licking following the election, the Coalition has blown apart. Whilst their signature policy to…
Pro-life movement gathers force in NSW
On Wednesday May 7, pro-life ‘rallyers’ came together in Sydney outside of the NSW Parliament House to protest the Greens’…
The Liberal Party’s women problem
While Australians are worried about the housing shortage and how to pay expensive electricity bills, the Liberal Party frets about…
David Crisafulli to the United Nations: ‘You don’t control me!’
Well damn… I confess, I didn’t have David Crisafulli sporting the biggest balls in Australian politics on my Bingo card,…
John Howard, Tony Abbott, and John Anderson weigh in
The stately figures of the Liberal Party have weighed in on the Coalition split, but stopped short of giving policy…
How the right can recapture ‘Greens-land’
I live in probably the greenest part of Australia, politically speaking. My local, state, and federal representatives in inner-city Brisbane…
Victoria: financially and morally bankrupt
Victoria has had just two Treasurers in 11 years – both have played central roles in bankrupting the state. It…
A very different perspective on the Coalition’s divorce
The meteoric rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party this year, which I predicted in The Spectator Australia last July,…
Save the last dance: Tim Wilson defeats Zoe Daniel
Tim Wilson has lived out the fantasy of every wet Liberal by retaking a Teal seat. It is a victory…
Victoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia
From Shanghai: The Victorian Budget, delivered on May 20, foreshadows the Albanese government’s policy direction. Victoria’s basket-case economy mirrors federal…
Coalition split a disaster for conservatives, at least in the short term
Today’s bombshell announcement by Nationals Leader, David Littleproud, that his party is ending its Coalition agreement with the Liberals, adds…
I hate to say it, but the Nats need to split
From Shanghai: Sir Robert Menzies is my political hero. I’ve written about him for the Robert Menzies Institute and to…
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