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Victorian Parliament at its worst
Since the recent Referendum, many commentators have referred to the state of play in the Victorian negotiations between the state…
Gentle parents, ruthless children
As someone perpetually infuriated by the general public, I’m not quite sure why I enjoy train travel so much. Taking…
Western decline is not inevitable: ARC tells a ‘better story’
The inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship forum held in London this week repudiated the direction our politicians are leading us.…
Victoria’s bonkers 30cm grass height rule to be ‘revised’
You can always count on the former Republic of Danistan to come up with a deranged idea. Last week, they…
Killing koalas to save wind farms?
‘Protecting koalas’ has been the favourite mantra invoked by Green groups and local councils to prevent basic services being built.…
ARC: to boldly say what the elites dare not
An audience of movers and shakers from around the world roared with laughter in London this week during a talk…
Catch 22 powers on
Recently I wrote an article titled Hello Darkness My Old Friend, which started out describing a romantic candle-lit dinner with…
The high cost of shoehorning Biden into the Presidency
Shoehorning? I’m sure you know what I mean. It is this: I do not believe that Biden’s basement-delivered campaign in…
Israel, censorship, and the ten percent
One of the side effects of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in various Western countries, including Australia, has been…
Sub-optimal desalination for sub-tropical Queensland?
The present Queensland government’s Water Security Plan includes doubling the present capacity of the existing desalination plant at Tugun, and…
Superiority complex at the heart of elite activism
The defeat of the Voice Referendum is no reason to rejoice, but rather a time for reflection. Indigenous communities need…
Spectacularly wrong on foreign policy
It isn’t uncommon for foreign policy prognosticators to get things spectacularly wrong. What sets Jake Sullivan apart, in my opinion,…
Konstantin Kisin, ‘We are in the fight of our lives’
Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this speech by Konstantin Kisin at the inaugural ARC (The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship)…
Wikipedia at war
Twenty years ago when I attended university, I was told by lecturers in no uncertain terms that Wikipedia should not…
The problem with green energy is … basic physics
All green energy generation schemes are dishonest schemes, for various reasons. They all need enormous tax-payer funding to make them…
Centralisation, the Voice, and why the National Curriculum should be abandoned
Centralised control results in a hierarchy of out-of-touch elites, neglects local agency, and creates unnecessary layers of red tape and…
Green, powerless, and defenceless
As Net Zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenceless. History holds lessons that we ignore at…
Sick of Marvel? Watch these instead
I think it’s safe to say that I’m getting sick of the same old superhero movies. The chances of me…
Toward a new totalitarianism
There’s no doubt cultural-Marxist-inspired Woke ideology is destroying the best parts of Western Civilisation. Rationality, truth, and a spiritual or…
Airbus Albo has forgotten Alice Springs
It is unlikely Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to Alice Springs now the referendum is finished and there is…
Raining missiles, reigning lies: flags, ceasefires, and ‘proportionality’
The gentle, lispy tones of Tony Burke, Minister for the Arts and Workplace relations in the Albanese government, belie the…
What are the WHO up to this time?
For most Australians, any distant international bureaucracy seems a world away from their everyday lives. When discussing the WHO (World…
De-banking Nigel Farage: a tale of politics, not commerce
Documents that further vindicate Nigel Farage’s claim that he was de-banked by Coutts for political, not financial reasons, emerged last…
It’s the mens rea, stupid!
The young female journalist-cum-activist from the ABC (suffering early onset bias) was asking Amir Maimon, the Israeli Ambassador to Australia,…
Statement from our former Prime Ministers
Six former Australian Prime Ministers, notably excluding Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating, have written and signed a two-page letter condemning…
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