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Western Australia frustrated over fuel stockpiles?
The Albanese government appears to have frustrated one of its state Labor allies. Western Australia Energy Minister, Amber-Jade Sanderson, has expressed…
One Nation is protecting cash, not the Treasurer
Those who heard Senator Michaelia Cash’s speech about One Nation’s decision to vote against Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Competition and Consumer…
Every little bit helps. How to waste $20 million on an ad campaign
While the Treasurer plots how to take money out of our pockets in the next Budget, we discover the Albanese…
What if they held an election and nobody came?
The South Australian state election in March saw Labor comfortably home, yet again, but the insurgent One Nation became the…
Addressing Australia’s self-inflicted energy crisis
How could Australia be suffering a double energy crisis when the nation exports several times more energy than it consumes…
A five-point plan for Aussie AI
When a tech giant is thinking harder about public policy than the government, something has gone wrong
‘How to Save Our Churches’ – A Catholic Perspective
A church that survives only as a cultural landmark will eventually become a museum
After October 7, deterrence is no longer enough
The October 7 Hamas terrorist attack did more than expose a catastrophic intelligence failure. It exposed the limits of deterrence…
The foundations of Iran
The philosophy of Zoroaster, the legacy of Cyrus the Great and Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
Government set to make extreme police powers permanent
The ‘frog in boiling water’ is a common anecdote. According to the story, if you put a frog in boiling…
Is One Nation more Liberal than the Liberals?
Among the major parties, who’s policy-lite? It’s the Liberals...
Iran and the death of the decarbonisation empire
Online publications with a habit of operating like mouthpieces for the renewables industry, have been scathing at the suggestion Australian…
Ben Roberts-Smith case brings out the armchair experts
But for the Ben Roberts-Smith arrest this week, you would never know there were so many experts in criminal martial…
No fuel rationing for April, as Albanese heads to Singapore
There are species of sloth that move faster than the Prime Minister. This much is evident as we discover today…
One Nation, the Liberal collapse, and Australia’s populist reckoning
When I wrote about One Nation’s rise earlier this year, the polling was startling. The question was whether it would…
Strike out academic nonsense
In the geological past, I sat on the engineering and earth science and major equipment committees of the Australian Research…
The Isfahan discrepancy
When an American F-15E Strike Eagle was brought down over Iran on April 3 by a shoulder-fired missile, the Pentagon…
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