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Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism
In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…
Reporting from the Marxist front line
This Easter, Australian Marxists are conducting their big shindig, Marxism Conference 2023, at Melbourne University. I’m attending. It’s important to understand what…
Pesutto seized his opportunity to fail as a leader
It’s been a gut-wrenching fortnight for Liberal Party supporters watching the vilification of Moira Deeming, who, through no fault of…
Australians are ready, willing, and able to work – let them!
Australian families are feeling the pinch of the cost-of-living crisis gripping the nation as inflation, record energy bills, and housing…
Our moral panic over AI
I was born three years after the first Terminator film was released and didn’t see it until I was around seven.…
No one knows what Albanese’s Voice will look like, or what powers it might have
It seems, if the polls are to be believed, that the majority of Australians in a majority of states will…
China and Hong Kong: a tale of caution
Recent instances of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) censorship indicate its global and persistent efforts to block any pipelines of…
The crisis of liberal illiteracy
Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is in hot water over this unwelcome bit of advice to President Donald…
The half-hearted ‘no’
In a half-hearted ‘no’ to The Voice, the Australian Liberal Party will support a legislated Voice, not a constitutional addendum. It’s…
Wave power creates Net Zero corpses in the sea
Every year, there is a green fad that claims it’s going to ‘save the world’ with some kind of renewable…
Pesutto’s war against Moira Deeming is utterly unprincipled
Flying home from Canberra last week, I finished listening to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, a podcast exploring how a…
The ‘Local Voice’ vs. the ‘Canberra Voice’
The Liberal Party recently came out against Anthony Albanese’s proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament – under which an advisory body…
Dear Peter … now that you’ve found your Voice
Peter Dutton and I were good friends once, and worked together closely in the Howard and Rudd years. Sorry to…
The tragic end of Book Depository
The sudden closure of UK-based Book Depository has sent a shiver through the Australian literary scene. As one of Australia’s most…
The federal Libs must condemn Pesutto for throwing women to the wolves
A woman in the Afghan Parliament has been suspended by her political party for the crime of advocating for women’s…
The devolution of Western teaching
The National Curriculum is broken. So too is the profession of instruction and teaching. Each new Education Minister – be…
Catastrophic: an interview with Peter McCullough and John Leake on the politics of Covid
Before the United Australia Party’s hotly anticipated Dr Peter McCullough Covid-19 Vaccine Conference in Sydney, Australia, Julie Sladden was invited…
The Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Voice
The three demands of the Uluru Statement, accepted entirely by the Prime Minister, are the Voice, a Makarrata Commission, and…
Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action
Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…
Let’s face it, we suck at this
The ‘left’ – and by this term I mean Labor, Teals, the moderates of the Liberal and National parties, as…
Women work harder than men – phooey!
‘Women work harder than men,’ so read a sexist headline for an article earlier this year. Hardly unusual, given that…
If politics were a game show
Every now and then, life serves us up a political microcosm – a vignette where broader political issues are presented…
The world’s flattest batteries
Kites are thought to have originated in China over two thousand years ago. Since the original incarnations, kites have evolved…
Trashing the right to be commercial
For a long time, Australian unions, labour academics, and their political fellow travellers have sought to cut away at the…
Climate change and the rhythm of life
As a teenager, I was entranced with the song The Rhythm of Life from the movie Sweet Charity sung by Sammy Davis Jr.…
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