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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Lest Labor forget this Remembrance Day

11 November 2026 7:50 pm

As I left for my truck run in Central NSW this morning, the Flanders poppies stood at attention along the…

Trials and tribulations of free speech in Australia

11 November 2026 6:56 pm

I am a long-time critic of our High Court’s adventurism and willingness to usurp the legitimate lawmaking power of the…

Haiti: the world’s reluctant laboratory

11 November 2026 12:39 pm

When the government of Nayib Bukele announced the deployment of more than 2,000 Salvadoran troops to Haiti, the official justification…

Australia’s bloated bureaucracy needs a slice of PIE

11 November 2026 11:38 am

My proposal for a powerful oversight department within the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio

The saving of Victoria Barracks

11 November 2026 10:56 am

The best way to preserve a heritage site is to continue using it for its original purpose

Britain needs a second amendment

10 November 2026 1:41 pm

The West is the victim of a sordid Faustian pact; the liberals selling their souls for ‘virtue’, whilst all around them burns

Councillors are happy, shame about the ratepayers

10 November 2026 10:30 am

Local government is the only institution where customers are unhappy, management is delighted, and the solution is to send a…

Albo is sleepwalking us into ‘Down and out in Paris and London’

10 November 2026 10:18 am

In the late 1920s, George Orwell lived in poverty in Paris. His savings stolen, he worked as a dish pig…

The King’s umbrella

9 November 2026 2:17 pm

Australians watching from the couch may feel the whole thing is a Pom problem. It isn’t...

More than music

9 November 2026 1:42 pm

Yehuda Meitav, memory, resistance, and the courage to speak up

Victorian Labor – a ‘credibility-free’ zone

9 November 2026 12:47 pm

For a window on the collapse of integrity in Australian politics, look no further than the 12-year-old Andrews-Allan-Carroll Labor administrations

Donald Trump defied populism and the woke-right podcasters to do what was right

9 November 2026 7:52 am

It has been amusing as well as entirely predictable to watch the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowing over the so-called Blue…

Lost in translation

9 November 2026 1:41 am

Politicians, the media, and voters can no longer understand each other

MIDTERM BLUE – NAMI CRASHES OVER DONALD TRUMP | Is this the end of the WEST as we know it? | S3 Ep 27

8 November 2026 4:00 am

In this episode: Democrats rise as war in #Iran and mass migration turn the polls against #DonaldTrump #MAGA Republicans. #DavidJones…

Australia’s most serious skills shortage

7 November 2026 9:41 pm

Perhaps we should import 50 economic policymakers from Taiwan

What can Australia learn from the US election?

7 November 2026 6:52 pm

Were the results caused by war, inflation, new taxes, or corruption? The answer is ‘yes’...

State of origin

7 November 2026 6:36 pm

Almost half of Labor’s candidates in its own seats come straight from the political machine

A recession in all but name

7 November 2026 6:19 pm

Australians are not asking Canberra for generosity; they are asking it to stop taking more than it gives

Angry duck Trump or the West’s goose is cooked

6 November 2026 4:58 pm

Why did the majority of Americans vote like useful idiots?

Canberra needs an expiry date

6 November 2026 4:31 pm

Parliament is not meant to be a retirement village for former student politicians

Midterm mayhem

mudslinging

6 November 2026 2:30 pm

The midterm elections in USA have delivered a shellacking to the Republicans and their policies. This was not confined to…

Trump’s midterms wipeout just handed the West a brutal setback

5 November 2026 1:43 pm

Those of us in the fight to save the West, including Australia, need to do a much better job explaining the stakes

Should Parliament take back control of interest rates?

5 November 2026 12:57 pm

With the RBA delivering yet another interest rate rise this week and making life even more uncomfortable for those with…

The fountain of the little snouts

5 November 2026 12:30 pm

The Boboli Gardens surround the Pitti Palace in Florence, built in 1458 for banker Luca Pitti. It later became the…

Bring back Aussie expats, hit the brakes on mass migration

4 November 2026 9:12 pm

Around a million Australians live overseas. That number grows every year. Why not entice them back?