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After 30 days of Labour, I want the Conservatives back
One month in, and our new Labour government has already made a complete hash of it. The UK has descended…
Illawarra stands up to offshore wind
On Sunday, July 28, I was asked to speak at the ‘Rally to Oppose the Illawarra Offshore Wind Proposal’ in…
Why was the crowd booing?
The Police and Citizens Youth Club in Woolloomooloo opened in 1937 and was the original club in the network of…
Bleeding Australia dry
Nations achieve high standards of living by having a productive workforce and high levels of investment. Either they produce the…
Livin’ on a prayer, Victoria!
The 10,912 Victorians who signed a petition to retain the recital of the Lord’s Prayer in our state Parliament each…
Much ado about nothing: UK Labour’s policy wasteland
Most astute commentators on the ‘zeitgeist’ of the times; in the realms of geopolitics, economics, resource scarcity etc – whether…
False narratives still drive anti-Semitism
Like many in the West, I was horrified on October 7 when reports came in that Hamas terrorists had invaded…
Contempt for Christians on the rise in Scotland?
Contempt for those with Christian convictions appears to be on the rise in Scotland. A survey conducted by new think…
IOC takes the gold medal for ideological capture
If you want to see what total ideological capture looks like, look no further than the International Olympic Committee allowing…
Paris: degeneracy, depravity, and diversity
I will not be watching a single minute of the Olympic Games. Not even the highlights. Don’t get me wrong,…
The classic liberal case for feminism
At the base of the culture wars, under the feet of those who bicker about the left and right, Woke…
It’s time for teachers to be given back control
It doesn’t take a university degree in education to recognise a connection between a dismal classroom environment and poor academic results,…
Peter Dutton lands in Israel
The Hon Peter Dutton has announced his arrival in Israel, where he will meet with senior members of the Israeli…
Australia slowly retreats from vaccine mandates
The retreat from Covid hysteria in Australia has been painfully slow and uneven. In one dispatch from the virus overreaction…
Would tinkering with the banking system help first home buyers?
There is a simple and free way to observe a fascinating yet little-known aspect of Australia’s banking system. By browsing…
The Gold Coast’s unAustralian ‘view tax’
Labor’s cost of living crisis and expanding black hole in the Treasury has led many to believe that they’ll soon…
Albanese’s game of Cabinet charades
The colour of authoritarianism is grey. I learned this the first time I sat in a wonderful old town square…
Democracy is better off with policy think tanks
In case you missed it, media attention recently focused on a US think tank and its worked-up policy plans for…
Time for tough love or Australia will go to the dogs
From Thimphu, Bhutan: To ‘go to the dogs’ is an idiom that means an organisation or a country is ‘deteriorating…
An Anzac story
In an obscure cove, on an unknown beach, in a foreign land far-far away, on the morning of the April…
The Olympics have gone to s**t
There was a time, not so long ago, when poodles shitting on the streets of Paris were considered to be…
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