Michael de Percy

Bowen’s homemade recipe for an energy debacle

6 January 2024 12:20 am

Rewiring the nation won’t happen by rewriting history. Markets work best through light regulation and promoting competition. Government has a…

Activists have severely damaged the arts in Australia

6 December 2023 3:00 am

Some of our finest cultural institutions have been hijacked by political activists. Captive audiences have been subjected to political activism while artists…

Albo’s control of your TV is only the tip of the iceberg

28 November 2023 4:30 am

With Communications Minister Michelle Rowland expected to introduce a ‘prominence’ bill this week, Australians should be very worried about the…

Whither journalism for the common people?

12 November 2023 3:16 am

Who knew that news media services would become so partisan that they would support government agendas that conflict with the common people?…

Superiority complex at the heart of elite activism

3 November 2023 12:59 am

The defeat of the Voice Referendum is no reason to rejoice, but rather a time for reflection. Indigenous communities need…

Fixing potholes is a policy we can all agree on

30 October 2023 4:30 am

On my way to the local tip, my car lurched as I backed out over the naturally occurring drain that…

Coastal wind farms: this Sunday, the people say ‘no’ again

29 October 2023 12:00 am

When the first coastal wind farms were announced by Energy Minister Chris Bowen, I thought I was dreaming. Australia has…

Albo gives EV drivers a free ride

26 October 2023 12:14 am

It is no secret that federal fuel excise revenues have been in decline for years, and something needs to be…

New Zealand’s dance with division is not over yet

18 October 2023 4:31 pm

New Zealand’s October 14 election coincided with the Voice referendum where Australians decisively said ‘No’ to enshrining divisive race-based politics…

If I were as brave as Jacinta

18 September 2023 4:30 am

This week, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price demonstrated her credentials as a potential Australian Prime Minister. She is a member of…

Australia’s ideologically-driven energy crisis

23 August 2023 4:00 am

Labor’s energy policy won’t reduce our energy bills by $275 in 2025. When questioned about this promise in 2021, Prime…

Local councils are becoming fiefdoms obsessed with identity politics

11 August 2023 4:00 am

One great thing about Australia’s Federation is its system of checks and balances. In addition to a Westminster-style separation of…

It’s time the ABC was privatised

28 May 2023 5:00 am

In my view, the ABC no longer provides news and current affairs content that is relevant to mainstream Australians. This…

Labor’s coal-fired green dream

24 May 2023 1:40 pm

With cost-of-living pressures really starting to hurt Australians, Labor’s green dream would be a complete nightmare if it wasn’t for coal.…

Where’s our energy Plan B, Chris Bowen?

15 May 2023 6:00 am

Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, has released a video calling Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan for nuclear energy ‘a…

Australia’s Korean War 70 years on

25 April 2023 4:30 am

As we approach the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement (July 27, 1953), it is timely to reflect on…

Memes: the road to collectivism

17 March 2023 5:00 am

As politics becomes increasingly polarised, policymakers are no longer focused on giving voters what they want, but on making voters…

Divide et impera: the end of pluralism

1 March 2023 4:00 am

Pluralism – or the ‘doctrine of multiplicity’ – tends to go hand-in-hand with liberal democracy. Based on the concept of…

On Labor’s Heraclitus: the fragments of socialism

17 February 2023 4:00 am

There is no socialist solution to Australia's economy

Decolonising ends up where, exactly?

24 January 2023 7:00 am

Before the Christmas holidays, one of my mates jokingly said something about ‘soon you’ll be writing about the Left’s war…

A grassroots revival of conservative politics

10 January 2023 4:00 am

John Howard and Peter Costello are right to remind the federal government that we are ‘robbing the future to pay…

The slippery slope to socialism

29 December 2022 7:00 am

I have the heater on in mid-summer Australia, so it makes sense that ‘they’ changed ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’…

The sovereignty of technocrats and rule of lawyers

15 December 2022 7:00 am

It began when the lawns atop Parliament House were fenced off. The whole point of the design of Parliament House was…

Ignore the French, the next war requires nuclear subs

25 November 2022 10:00 am

Do armchair warriors really believe our submariners should fight in obsolete diesel-electric submarines in defence of our nation? Making the performative…

Local government or bureaucratic symbolism?

22 November 2022 1:07 pm

One of the great things about our federal system is that local governments ensure local issues are dealt with by…