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E-safety censorship cannot save us from ancient hate
There is something loathsome about bureaucrats promising to ‘keep people safe’ by controlling the public’s access to information. I was…
Dutton proposes stripping citizenship from migrants who spread hate
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has suggested that migrants could lose their citizenship if they are found to express hatred toward…
Trump is not talking like a US leader
Donald Trump’s latest remarks on Ukraine are not just factually flawed but dangerously misleading. His claim that Ukraine ‘talked’ the…
Be more resilient…?
My friend – a Canadian who had the gall to move back to Canada – asked me, ‘Lizzie, why are…
Power speaking truth to irrelevance
In his historic speech at the Munich Security Conference, JD Vance told European leaders not to shut down opinions with…
Dutton and Abbott have got Ukraine wrong, not Trump
Peter Dutton has said that Trump is wrong on Ukraine, while Tony Abbott has claimed that the US President is…
Senator Gerard Rennick calls out hate speech overreach
An Australian Senator is protesting new hate speech legislation, likening lockdowns on free speech to Covid-era overreach. People First Senator…
Green steel? Go woke, go broke
After the Premier of South Australia put Whyalla Steelworks into administration, Mr Albanese found another $2.4 billion of taxpayers’ money…
Dutton: the latest leader to sacrifice popularity to Ukraine
Winning the federal election is going to be a delicate game of numbers considering Australia’s two major parties are competing…
Donald Trump succeeded where John Howard failed
Former Prime Minister John Howard is widely loved by the loyal Blue Ribbon conservative base – even those who swell…
Essential steps to making Australia great again
Early and evasive action: The ABC As Ross Cameron was a bike-riding friend of Tony Abbott, I rang him just…
Dutton is no Trump when it comes to the gender debate
If only the LGBTQ+ political activist movement would leave their agenda in the bedroom, as Peter Dutton wistfully muses. Asked…
Civilisation and Faith: the showdown for the West
An editorial on Os Guinness’ vision for the future
Political leaders need to develop a backbone
My new favourite word is ‘pusillanimous’ which seems to so rightly describe this mob of invertebrates and fence sitters we…
Trump and the New World
The implementation of hegemony, since the eclipse of British maritime Empire, has been the prerogative of the US. There have…
Difficult tasks
The lesson to learn about the American tariff war is that it is wiser to save what you have to…
Totalitarianism lurks beneath hate crime laws
In Australia, there are many ‘bad laws’ that seek to criminalise, rather than promote, free speech. For example, at the…
Slowing the rise of energy prices won’t save us
The price of energy has been killing our industries for years, although the rate of Australia’s deindustrialisation has been scandalously…
Will Australia learn from the Doge Revolution?
During the 1990s, I claimed that the then federal ALP government was introducing a ‘US-style culture of litigation’. Then Attorney-General…
Econocide: green subsidies are hastening our energy demise
In addition to bringing reduced emissions of supposed planetary warming CO2, government plans for wind and solar to dominate electricity…
Dear farmers, nobody wants to eat fungus-fed beef
Australian scientists announced this week that they have discovered a way to reduce the methane emissions from livestock. The research,…
Australia’s multicultural experiment failed
The claim that ‘Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world’ appears to be the dream that never…
The enemy within
The 61st Security Conference held being held in Munich from 14 to 16 February 2025 is aimed at providing opportunities…
Gaslighting
Censorship exists to protect bad ideas from public scrutiny. Because it is effectively a toxic four-letter notion, governments in thrall…
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Trump punctures India’s hype
But risks significant harm to their strategic partnership as an Indo-Pacific counterweight to China
