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Victorian Greens cooking over gas backflip
It was always a gamble to see how long Victoria’s proposed ban on gas cooktops would last. After all, beautiful,…
The rise of social regulations
The great surge in Australian productivity took place in two decades during the early years of the present century. It…
Dreams and schemes of electric vandals
Speaking about electricity, I’d like to apologise for South Australia as we have been free-riding for a long time on…
Foreign policy realism
The Liberal International Order (LIO) is no more. The days of intervening in foreign lands to protect ‘democracy’ is almost…
Is the Victorian building industry fixable?
The reluctance to make complaints because of fear of reprisal is the obvious headline grab from the Interim Report into…
Orwellian double-speak on international student caps
Australia, and other Western nations, long ago entered an Orwellian era where ‘double-speak’ is becoming increasingly common in politics. It’s…
It’s everyone else’s fault
Jim Chalmers has reacted to news that Australia’s growth has been an anaemic 1 per cent (which with population growth…
Australia’s current recession in perspective
Australia is in a per-capita recession. This should be big news, but most of the mainstream media remains dedicated to…
Christianity defends against tyrants
I was watching an episode of a show on the weekend and one of the characters, an autistic computer hacker…
Two-time loser Bill Shorten ‘did it his way’
Federal Minister Bill Shorten has finally seen what voters saw years ago; he would never be Prime Minister of this…
Starmer’s war on the pensioners and the poor
Two months in, and Labour has picked its soft target… Those on low incomes and the elderly. Recently, the Keir…
Immigration is a working class issue – and it needs representation
My dad was a union man. He was the secretary for the Plumbers Union Queensland, and I spent a good…
Down with Robin Hood
‘Enough is enough,’ Greens Leader Adam Bandt declared to the National Press Club in Canberra last Wednesday. ‘It’s time to…
Pursuing an independent foreign policy?
The last time an Australian government pursued an independent foreign policy was when Prime Minister Billy Hughes took his wish…
FSANZ’S paradigm shift in gene-edited food regulation
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) intends to declare a wide range of gene-edited foods substantially equivalent to conventional foods.…
Dutton cleanses NSW Liberal temple just in time
From the early days of federal politics in Australia, conservatives have been split over issues such as free trade versus…
Brazil’s war on free speech: Starlink banned
Alexandre de Moraes’ overreach has gone nuclear. In Brazil, the far-left judicial El Jefe is freezing Starlink’s finances, preventing Elon…
Two-tier over here
Two-tier policing is one of the driving forces of the ‘mostly peaceful’ protests in England. We have had two-tier policing…
Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive sign. But the history of…
The Albanese government has become a parody of itself
Reprising Kevin Rudd’s Monthly essay 14 years earlier, at the beginning of 2023, Treasurer Jim Chalmers outlined a new economic…
The Senate Inquiry into excess mortality
‘Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.’ – Mark Twain The year 2022 will go down in infamy as…
Remembering Diana 27 years later
It has been 27 years since Princess Diana tragically died in a car accident in Paris. That makes her one…
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