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Renewable energy subsidies undermine our economy
Australia has seen a 20-year downward trend in productivity. Many other nations have seen similar trends and the cause is…
Human rights in the firing line?
As many readers will already be aware, the WA Labor government is currently attempting to make sweeping changes to Western…
ACTU: imposing union control over AI?
The ACTU apparently perceives AI as a ‘very big threat’ to workers, yet simultaneously aims to leverage it for higher…
Back to the future: workplace reform takes centre stage again
The industrial relations scare campaign has begun, as we count down to the next federal election. The recent leaking of…
Are the new weight loss drugs headed for listing on the PBS?
Ever since Covid, I’ve avoided making reference to the World Health Organisation (WHO) given how wrong it seemed to be…
A national crisis? Stop marching and start working
It was difficult to watch Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan join the national marches against gendered violence last month knowing she…
Net Zero burial of carbon dioxide?
The Queensland government recently placed a ban on pumping and dumping carbon dioxide into the rocks of the Great Artesian…
Anti-Israel stance emboldens anti-Semitism
Students and their hangers-on at the pro-Palestinian ‘glamping’ protest camps at our Group of 8 (G8) universities reveal an underlying…
Is Assange’s predicament a reason for conservatives to disagree?
On May 31, 2024, Alexandra Marshall, in her informative email message to subscribers of The Spectator Australia, noted that: ‘Assange…
iWant generation is a corporate feeding ground
‘Don’t care how, I want it now!’ shouts Veruka Salt, from the weighing room of good eggs and bad eggs…
Misinformation laws will not stop the next violent attack, but will shield politicians from tough questions
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is pushing ahead with her frivolous lawsuit against social media platform, despite a slap…
Federal Budget forgets what Hawke knew about growth
‘We will not be able to just spend our way out of the mess: we must work our way out of…
Donald Trump: our last stand against globalism
Donald Trump is a symbol. He represents humanity’s last stand against the globalist tyrants who wish to snuff out the…
Modi’s ignorance of Gandhi’s renown shocks the world
Modi’s recent remark about Gandhi’s renown, or in his mind, lack thereof, has shocked the whole world. While giving an…
Foreign issues dominate Australian politics
I miss the days when Australian politicians were only interested in solving Australian problems. Maybe that was never the case,…
Everyone is catching subsidy fever! But will it really lower inflation?
Subsidies are politically infectious right now. Jim Chalmers and Anthony started the latest outbreak with energy subsidies, which they claimed…
Money in decline, society in decline
Society is declining in value because our money is declining in value. This is self-evident. And yet every time I…
NSW refuses to pardon 3,628 children for breaching pandemic orders
New South Wales police fined 3,628 children between 2020-22 for Covid-related ‘offences’. Most were from low socio-economic LGAs. Of these,…
Voice referendum failure is still misunderstood
The profound misunderstanding why over 60 per cent of voters rejected the Voice referendum’s proposition is demonstrated in a May…
The death of the American legal system is the rebirth of Trump
Today we announce the death of the US legal system. The death of Justice. The death of Democracy. And the…
Brace Yourself
Former President Trump was convicted on all 34 counts by the Manhattan jury. Actually, these are just the same alleged…
A new energy transition: coal, nuclear, and natural gas
What is the ‘energy transition’? For Labor, it is a transition to renewables. For the Liberals, it is a transition…
Shark mitigation for surfing
Over recent decades, an increasing rate of shark attacks worldwide has prompted many scientists, entrepreneurs, and governments to develop shark…
US Dollar hegemony
In 1970, at a meeting in Washington DC, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked then chairman of the…
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