Michael de Percy

Liberals’ last hurrah?

2 February 2026 9:54 am

Outside of mortgage repayments, motor vehicle rego charges, and council rates, politics is like an annoying blowfly that interrupts the…

Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups

28 January 2026 10:40 am

The evidence of disadvantage in Indigenous communities throughout the world is overwhelming. There ought to be funding for programs designed…

Silvertail Liberals are up against sons and daughters of Anzacs

24 January 2026 10:25 am

The Liberal Party thinks that changing their leader is going to fix the party’s problems, but who is going to…

Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault

20 January 2026 9:05 pm

From the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Following yesterday’s shemozzle, and after a good night’s sleep, I rode my new scrambler into…

Condolences today, (in)action tomorrow

19 January 2026 9:11 pm

Bridget McKenzie says PM failed to rise to the test of leadership

Labor’s Islamic terrorism deflection is desperate

19 January 2026 8:13 am

Parliament returns today for a rare special sitting recalled early by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Labor’s original intention was to…

Nobel Peace Prize forgets its realist origins and goes full Woke

17 January 2026 5:37 pm

Few legacies have been as deliberately engineered as that of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor whose name is now synonymous…

Hate speech is not Islamic terrorism, and where’s Pauline?

16 January 2026 12:49 am

In the timeless wisdom of childhood playgrounds, we were taught that ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words…

Adelaide writers’ festival meets the ghosts of socialists past

14 January 2026 6:18 pm

The implosion of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival stands as a hard reminder of historical lessons ignored. Initially, the board cancelled…

Labor’s Royal Commissions are typically political theatre

9 January 2026 2:14 pm

They should fix problems, not fabricate scapegoats

Albanese folds, appoints Virginia Bell to lead Royal Commission

8 January 2026 5:08 pm

In a press conference this afternoon, Prime Minister Albanese announced a Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. He claimed…

The wrong stuff!

6 January 2026 12:00 pm

Albo’s stitching is undone, and his fluff is showing

New York is now the most idiotic city in the world

3 January 2026 10:29 am

The newly elected mayor of the once-great metropolis of New York City has used his maiden speech to declare that…

Make Sydney and Melbourne city-states

2 January 2026 12:53 pm

How else are we going to save New South Wales and Victoria?

Young Australians should travel instead of going to Woke universities

1 January 2026 1:00 am

From Düsseldorf: On hearing that a decade’s worth of university dropouts will be awarded a qualification at a Victorian university,…

Merry Christmas from the heartland of Santa Claus

25 December 2025 1:00 am

From Munich: German Christmas markets are the best in the world. There’s something about Germany that makes Christmas feel more…

This won’t blow over, Albanese

19 December 2025 11:23 pm

Labor is complicit in the architecture of fear

Old hatreds have infiltrated Australia, and we let them in

15 December 2025 7:46 am

From Cologne: I’ve just been to the City Museum in Cologne where the collection attempts to grapple with Germany’s past…

If Germans won’t fight for Germany, who will?

10 December 2025 10:56 am

Have young German men been brainwashed by Woke?

Comms Minister Anika Wells rejects the premise of liberal democracy

7 December 2025 11:21 pm

From Hamburg: I’m away from the National Press Club for two seconds and I miss out? It’s not quite a…

ACT government flirts hard with socialism

5 December 2025 10:27 am

Residents and communities treated as obstacles to central planning

Will Albo’s crocodile diplomacy discourage China’s flotillas?

3 December 2025 1:40 pm

From Hamburg: As China’s latest flotilla sails closer, Australians are entitled to ask their Prime Minister whose side he is…

If this is Germany’s post-colonial democracy, bring back Bismarck

1 December 2025 2:52 pm

From Hamburg. The only way to cleanse post-colonial guilt is for every person, including immigrants, to give an extensive portion…

Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals to sit on crossbench

27 November 2025 3:26 pm

New England is at the heart of Australia. The Canberra bubble may not like it, but Canberra is merely a…

Parliament cancels A Super Progressive Movie trailer: ‘It might offend someone’

26 November 2025 12:53 pm

Last night in Canberra, I attended One Nation’s launch of the trailer for A Super Progressive Movie – the feature-length…