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Australia’s major and minor parties are divided on Ukraine
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are lining up firmly behind their European allies at the expense…
Trump was not wrong about the mice
The world’s anti-Trump press are awash with laughter over the trans-mice / transgenic mice gaffe from the US President during…
Fixing our civics education crisis
Young people know too little about how our democracy works, and we fail to teach democracy to immigrants. According to…
Can liberalism save the West? Zoomers don’t think so
A new poll by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom found 52 per cent of Generation Z, those of us…
Reflections on CPAC: Trump, triumph and hope
Change is required if we’re to pave the path to prosperity. The promise and prospect of such change was the…
Time for a population policy
Back in 2019, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in a foreword to the government report, Planning for Australia’s Future Population…
Ukraine: the cost of peace
The confrontational meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Donald Trump (and Vice-President J D Vance) has dominated…
Misplaced green energy
Why are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big…
Can Australia reclaim the Port of Darwin?
The Northern Territory has entered into high-level talks with the Albanese government over the Port of Darwin, which is held…
Labor’s citizenship blitz: a masterclass in misreading migrants
Labor’s recent push to fast-track citizenship ceremonies ahead of the election is yet another spectacular demonstration of their disconnect from…
Canada, Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Ukraine … Australia?
The world is once again at a crossroads. With Donald Trump’s political resurgence and Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions, a disturbing…
Australia’s five best and worst public speaking professions
The five top public speaking professions: University lecturers Comedians Newsreaders Broadcasters Actors The five worst professional speakers by profession: Politicians…
Woke West stands with Ukraine, Trump deals with reality
The rules-based world order has been destroyed by the Wokerati. The United Nations, an institution designed to address the shortcomings…
Has King Charles wandered into politics?
King Charles III has been careful to remain out of the political mud-slinging disaster of UK politics. Well, aside from…
Fallacies about the Ukraine War
I don’t know if I just have a very strong gene for contrarian thinking. Or if years of working as…
A diplomatic dust-up for the ages
With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine faced an in-tray from hell. Yet, their shock…
The vanishing American
For the past few weeks, well before the first light of dawn, hundreds of big fishing boats towed behind equally…
Oradour and October 7
Back in 1944, the Germans entered a small town in western France, Oradour-sur-Glane and massacred all but two or three…
Trump is a peacemaker, not a bully
President Zelenskyy of Ukraine met US President Donald Trump in the White House, initially to finalise the detail on a…
Starmtrooper visits The Empire
If the New World had a philosopher, it would be Thomas Hobbes. It would involve an account of the power…
Income splitting
One Nation has announced a new policy that would give ‘wage-earning couples with families a choice to file tax returns…
Greyhound racing: a heritage sport on the brink of extinction
Greyhound racing is on the brink of extinction. Once a celebrated heritage sport, it is now legal only in England,…
The Greens’ policies are about to come crashing down
Senator Hanson-Young’s inability to answer simple questions about Australia’s defence is representative of the Greens’ naïve worldview. In my opinion,…
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