Lessons from the new American right
Australian centre-right politicians are very fond of quoting Winston Churchill. One of the last pieces of advice that great wartime…
Autopilot engaged on trade policy after Jim Chalmers’ trip to Beijing
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers flew back from Beijing last weekend keen to emphasise that our trade relationship with China has…
Banning live export threatens disaster for Western Australia
Like other Australian urbanites who stomp around our capital cities in their RM Williams, my current knowledge of the bush…
The Dark Ages in Australia were not so dark
Francesco di Petracco, better known as ‘Petrarch’, is rightly recognised as an artistic genius, the greatest scholar of his age,…
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…
A National Conservative critique of the recent ‘The Road Ahead’ conference in Fremantle
Perhaps no other city makes one recall as fondly the spirit of the 1980s in Australia as Fremantle. It was…
The Palaszczuk legacy: terrible for Queenslanders, appalling for women
The Inala by-election, which will decide on a replacement for Annastacia Palaszczuk in Queensland’s Parliament, is scheduled for March 16,…
Understanding national conservatism
The Economist, the British magazine well-known for its particular metropolitan liberal worldview, had a pearl-clutching cover piece last week where…
‘We can no longer tolerate what ails us, nor its remedy’
Earlier in my career, in a very different world, I lived in China. It was possible, then, to stand on…
Where are today’s ‘cool heads in a time of crisis’?
We should learn from those who have stared down other potential doomsday threats
Forget the Wuhan flu, the Chi Comm virus is a bigger threat to our way of life
Over the last six months, we have witnessed an unprecedented global outbreak of politicians and journalists declaring how much they…
The madness of Saint Jeannette
The Sunshine State could learn a lot from the Swedes
On trade, Trump is the new Menzies
Our federal election is over but the US-China trade war rolls on. Overnight Donald Trump offered some free advice to…
Educating China
Imagine you are responsible for educating the children of China’s current leaders, many of whom may well go on to…
Time to drain the China lobby swamp
“Where have all the grown-ups gone when it comes to China policy?” exclaimed Geoff Raby last year, in a newspaper…
