In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
On trade we need more Alexander Hamilton and less Hawke/Keating/Howard
The Albanese government’s Future Built in Australia plan, if nothing else, has certainly caused an unexpected outbreak of bipartisanship among…
Cognitive warfare: how the West is losing its youth
Pro-Palestinian student protests across the US have led to allegations of anti-Israel hate crimes and damage to property and occupations…
Bitcoin critics
Bitcoin critics are exactly the same as the people who blindly obeyed their leaders during Covid. They always appeal to authority. They tell…
Hey Albo, read this…
Hey Albo, read this! This is something, as Prime Minister, you need to know about. It’s called ministerial responsibility –…
Australian Utopianism: causes and cures
In his April 2 Press Club Speech, outgoing Net Zero Economy Agency head Greg Combet set out the government’s grand…
It’s the energy, stupid!
It took political columnist (ex ABC & Nine) Chris Uhlmann to sharpen the point that energy in the economy is the equivalent…
Labor, how do I loathe thee?
I’m probably not alone in finding it surprising that Federal Labor still had around 30 to 32 per cent primary…
Digital ID: privacy and liberty are brothers
This is a variation on the speech I gave over the weekend in Sydney at the One Nation rally against Digital ID.…
Aussie cash: redesigned $5 note goes Woke
Well, that was predictable, as predictable as the sun rising the next morning, though not as welcome. With the late…
Government versus X: the pacification project must not be challenged!
Watching the dystopian-named ‘eSafety’ Commissioner in action is like watching the illegitimate lovechild of a deer caught in the headlights…
Crossing
The announcer said that the train – crowded with women and their children – was nearing the last station before…
Should business schools promote ‘social’ research?
One of the curious things of our sophisticated, yet superficial, information age is that the official websites of most business…
Put coal back in the Coalition energy policy
Most protagonists of nuclear power like to say it is clean, meaning no CO2 is released, as though this is…
Are they criminalising hate speech, or valid criticism of gender politics?
On the first of May, Queensland began living under the Criminal Code (Serious Vilification and Hate Crimes) and Other Legislation Amendment…
Mugged by bad law
In the course of human affairs and communications, words have specific meanings, and nowhere is this more important than in…
Scream louder: we will not suffer the e-Stasi Commissar
A healthy democracy has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to censors. As I pledged on Spectator TV last week, One…
The Resolute desk needs a resolute occupant
Like others perhaps, I used to think that the ‘Resolute desk’ in the Oval Office of the White House was…
WA Court of Appeal upholds Police Commissioner’s powers to mandate Covid vaccination
Senior Constable Ben Falconer and Police staff member Les Finlay lost their appeals in the WA Court of Appeal against…
Albanese’s political censorship plan
No wonder the Albanese government is worried about misinformation. This week as news broke about an horrific attack on an Australian couple…
Was Lehrmann’s presumption of innocence left in the ‘lions’ den’?
It was over dinner that a former senior Australian Federal Police investigator brought it up. A question no one appears…
The modern obsession with ‘green’ investment
The recently deceased Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway was arguably the most successful investor ever. He was noted for his…
‘E-safety’: the new thought police
Give an inch and they’ll take a mile – it is fair to say Australians are waking up to the…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E12: Are you getting ripped off at the supermarket? Rebecca Weisser, Stuart Ballantyne & Nick Hossack
The only thing worse than living through a cost of living crisis is being ripped off. Australians are looking at…
Is there a plot afoot to get rid of Albo?
Speculation, of course, but Albanese is either uncommonly talented in the art of self-destruction, or Labor is getting ready to…
Record business collapses… I am not surprised
This is not the first time Australians have abandoned their dreams
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