Michael de Percy

Vale Brigadier ‘Warrie’ George Lyon Mansford AM

21 February 2026 3:09 pm

An Australian Army legend

Leaked immigration policy debacle a boon for Angus Taylor

17 February 2026 10:28 am

Every now and then, a complete balls-up can work in one’s favour. Yesterday’s leaked Shadow Cabinet document marked ‘Shadow Cabinet-In-Confidence’…

The secret to Farrer…

13 February 2026 10:12 pm

By-election to replace Sussan Ley is One Nation’s big chance

Barnaby Joyce passes the pub test

11 February 2026 10:41 pm

How much money should the government make off your beer down the pub?

Liberals’ wheels fell off with the hate speech laws

10 February 2026 12:32 pm

The Liberal Party is a sinking ship. Sussan Ley’s team have been up late on WhatsApp to journalists who have…

RBA interest rate hike: our plight under Opposition light

3 February 2026 3:46 pm

From the Press Gallery: Below my seat in the press gallery, the Liberal Party sits in Parliament as a shadow…

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?