In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Patriotism is back from the dead – and young Australians revived it
Youth. The innocence yet fearlessness of youth. We’ve all been there. Being completely humbled by a plain-speaking toddler, or squirming…
Australia is a shared history, not a conflict
Was Australia ‘invaded’ by the British? I previously answered this question in detail in a previous article here. However, the…
Mateship is nothing to cringe about
They say if you’re stopped on the side of the Birdsville Track, you’ll know when a car coming past is…
Trump unshackles Australia Day
Great things happened this week. Donald Trump multitasked his way into office as the liberator of Western culture, and The…
Javier Milei’s fellowship of freedom
President of Argentina, Javier Milei, is having a ball at Davos. ‘The mental virus of Woke ideology is an epidemic…
Dedicated to revenge: anti-Australian activism must end
It is quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut…
Hold the line for Australia Day
As with so much of the rest of the Western world, Australians are demanded to ‘reflect, respect, and celebrate’ on…
A ferry tale
Attempting to sell one of my ‘world’s best ferry designs’ in the 1990s to a local but prominent ferry company,…
Rescuing manners from the Woke swamp
I’m walking down the street on a weekday morning, heading for the shops to do some banking and check the…
The Trump non-effect: Dutton stays in Paris, squibs gender question
The ‘Trump effect’ has had little effect on Peter Dutton. Families will continue to pay the Paris premium on their…
Farewell safe spaces, hello space
The ‘trust the science’ people must be thrilled. Donald Trump has upheld biological reality against deluded activism. Defending women from…
Sorry, WHO is this?
The ungodly era of progressive politics has been gutted by the pen. Page after page, folder after folder. The executive…
Flu vaccine mandates
A deeper look at efficacy, viral interference, and the influence of corporate interests
Dutton’s omissions matter
On Sunday, 12 January 2025, Australia’s Federal Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, in a widely reported speech, made a compelling case…
What lies next for the Middle Kingdom?
Many mistook the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) tightening of what many believe to be an iron grip on Hong Kong…
Give it a rest, Elon was saluting Mars
We need to come up with a word for modern press hysteria which is obsessed with chasing the ghost of…
The dawn of Trump, the triumph of liberty
I’m not sure if you were up as early as I was, but the United States of America has a…
Biden’s tragic theatre: the legacy of a puppet president
There is a terrible fear that Joe Biden’s presidential term has been little more than a performance – a bad…
Nuclear energy to take centre stage at Davos
For decades, nuclear energy has been relegated to the sidelines of the global debate on climate change and clean energy.…
Israel and the reshaping of the Middle East
Fifteen months of attacks by Iran’s axis of resistance on Israel have proved to be a staggering strategic misjudgement that…
Is this the end of Australia Day politics?
The battle of the vernacular and the political narratives around Australia Day finally seem to be reaching an exhausted truce.…
JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia
I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was…
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Trump punctures India’s hype
But risks significant harm to their strategic partnership as an Indo-Pacific counterweight to China
