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How family tax cuts could help Australia thrive
The constant increase in taxes and cost of living pressures have been particularly hard on families, making it difficult for…
WHO crowdfunds to save 760 GREMLIN labs
The World Health Organisation was one of the first targets of Donald Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ agenda. On January 20,…
Trump Gaza: the AI video breaking the internet
Yesterday, US President Donald Trump woke up and decided to break the internet. It wasn’t particularly difficult. He posted a…
Adam Bandt and the climate refugees
The first rule of left-wing politics is: find a target victim group. The second rule of left-wing politics is: if…
Trump’s Gold Card is genius
US President Donald Trump has found a way to force the Democrats to argue against migration at a time when the…
How ‘free’ is free speech?
Two of my summer reading books had me thinking afresh about free speech. The first one was The Happiest Man…
The Great Australian Empire of Nothing, according to some
As Dennis the peasant tells John Cleese, the King: ‘Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system…
Lie down with dogs, get fleas
The Free Democratic Party (FDP), the closest-to-my-views political party in Germany, has been wiped out and will not even be…
Australia needs DOGE
Isn’t it amazing how the cost of living crisis seems to affect everybody apart from our bureaucrats… While the Australian…
Albo is officially on the ropes after knocking himself out
After three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, the reduced…
Labor’s boring old Mediscare election
Labor has run out of money, run out of credibility, and run out of ideas. There is no other explanation…
What’s the point of ASIO?
The ASIO chief is this bizarre figure in the Australian political landscape that pops up every now and then to…
Whyalla: a leading edge in Australian industrial econocide
The attempts of the Commonwealth and South Australian governments to rescue the Whyalla steelworks is the latest ad hoc measure…
Are we prepared for the next pandemic?
In early 2020, as Covid spread across the globe, Australia scrambled to respond. Protective equipment ran short, national stockpiles had…
Trump’s Gaza plan: calling for an Islamic act of compassion?
President Donald Trump recently swept aside 70 years of conventional wisdom surrounding the Israel-Palestine conflict and proposed to temporarily depopulate…
Trump, Vance, Musk, and Milei: the men who defeated the Left
‘Will it be that, in 200 years’ time, there is a historical note in the history textbooks… There was something…
Housing affordability is killing the Aussie dream
The steady decline of fertility rates in Australia presents a multifaceted challenge with wide-reaching implications for the nation’s social, cultural,…
Pro-life doctors in NSW face the axe
A new bill introduced into the NSW Parliament titled Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025 has thrown…
Consumed with hatred: Hamas’ frenzied killing of Jews
Many assume that Hamas is distinctly at war with the Israelis and not specifically with the Jews. However, while Hamas…
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