John Ruddick

Michelle 2024?

30 December 2023 2:37 am

David Axelrod is America’s smartest political strategist on the left. He has an impressive track record in backing longshots who…

Let’s cut to the chase: this Bill is about protecting the ‘settled science’ of ‘global boiling’

18 August 2023 6:00 am

Dear Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), I write regarding the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023.…

Albanese runs away from Covid Royal Commission promise

19 May 2023 6:30 am

Evidence is mounting that our political class is baulking at the promised Covid Royal Commission. We keep hearing about the…

Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK

1 January 2023 4:00 am

I admire Tucker Carlson, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Miranda Devine, but they’ve all done a disservice recently in fuelling foolish…

NSW Liberals: party democracy must be honoured

12 December 2022 3:23 pm

If you thought the factional war that tore apart the NSW Liberal Party on the eve of the recent federal…

The failed war on pot

24 October 2022 10:00 am

It’s hard to overstate the social upheaval associated with the prohibition of alcohol in America a century ago. The sorry…

A republic means a political president

14 October 2022 7:00 am

The Australian Republican Movement (ARM) was founded on July 7, 1991. A few months later, Paul Keating deposed Bob Hawke…

A bold libertarian vision

9 October 2022 4:00 am

For years I’ve been outspokenly optimistic about Australia, but more recently I’ve changed… I look with concern at exponential government…

Good riddance to Liz Cheney

18 August 2022 9:00 am

The Left is running the West – economically, culturally, and politically. Even when we have a right-wing national leader in…

Release the tape!

11 August 2022 11:52 am

In the blue corner, we have Senator Jacinta Price who it is blindingly obvious has a heart of gold with…

What's next for the Liberal Democrats?

28 May 2022 4:00 am

The Senate count is complex and won’t be complete for another week or more. However, around 60 per cent of…

Farewell to freedom

23 May 2022 9:25 am

At face value, the 2022 federal election is a run-of-the-mill change of government election. In the post-Menzies era, the average…

Is it time to put 'freedom' first?

19 May 2022 1:20 pm

Polling is concerned with the House of Reps so forecasting the composition of the 40 senators to be elected this…

I won't take the vaccine, here's why

4 December 2021 4:00 am

I won’t take a COVID vaccine. Here’s why. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris formalised American independence from Great Britain.…

Off with their head-of-states

30 October 2021 9:00 am

As a monarchist, I fear it is time to end the Australian monarchy

How can anyone own the word ‘liberal’?

31 August 2021 1:00 pm

There is no word more mangled in the political lexicon than ‘liberal’. It’s the only word whose definition first requires…

Freedom on the march

14 August 2021 9:00 am

Why I will continue protesting against the lockdowns

Why I’m off to the Liberal Democrats

14 July 2021 1:04 pm

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s roadmap to normality was criticised as vague but it did contain one piece of substance –-…

Who the bloody hell are you?

24 April 2021 9:00 am

The Prime Minister had an unorthodox rise to power

Rome, the sequel

6 February 2021 9:00 am

Americans need to rekindle their love of ancient history

Deconstructing Trump hatred ahead of 2024

30 November 2020 3:29 pm

Why is Donald Trump the most loved and hated president since Abraham Lincoln? At face value, the left’s hatred for…

The case for Trump

10 October 2020 9:00 am

Only Donald Trump can pull off a US post-Covid recovery

Trump vs Karl Marx

25 July 2020 9:00 am

This year is the third attempt at overturning US capitalism

Can Morrison emulate our forgotten conservative hero

8 May 2020 11:00 pm

History tells us there is only one way to avoid a depression

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the NSW Liberals’ secret revolution

8 December 2019 2:01 pm

In the 75-year history of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party, there has never been more factional…