Australia’s leaders should take note: sometimes, doing the hard thing is worth considering. The easy thing is to wield one’s…

The Chinese Communist Party is at the peak of its power as it enters its second century. But how long can it…

The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (aka Chairman Dan) after over a year and a half has finally offered to provide…

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has long signalled he was open to ending a ban on nuclear power in Australia. He…

Less than 35 years ago the Australian left — and their colleagues around the world — were always warning us…

Communist China is amassing unrivalled amounts of individual and company data as part of its plans to build a “social…

I am going to comment on a fight I didn’t watch — I’m not sorry, can’t bear to watch. I…

On a day where one particular faith has been targeted in unprecedented ways, with residents in Melbourne’s “Bagel Belt” taking…

An interesting development in American politics emerged yesterday in a book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington…

Rehearsing what he says is Labor’s long commitment to the American alliance, Anthony Albanese has sought to modernise this, saying, “ On…

As noted in yesterday’s Morning Double Shot newsletter, in Britain and Australia we have two countries, two contrasting approaches to…

Churches cannot — and must not — comply with health orders that require them to exclude unvaccinated people from worship…

While two-thirds of this country’s population is currently locked up at home and deprived of its fundamental freedoms, unelected bureaucrats…

Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of…

“We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change,” a…

Something dangerous has happened to Australia.  We have allowed the interests of ‘collective health’ to erase individual human rights.  It…

Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…

I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as…

“I’ve never liked the idea of saying to people, ‘You must show your papers’ … to do what is just…

In an interview with the American socialist Jacobin Magazine this month, Greens leader Adam Bandt spoke about a growing inequality crisis. When…

I’m all for saving forests. Unlike the climate change enthusiasts, I learnt how to do it by working as a…

“Lying always comes before killing”, as Solzhenitsyn observed of the Stalin regime. Under the Labor administration in Queensland, it comes…

Just months from a possible December federal election, the Labor Party is doing what it does so well – knifing…