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Matt Walsh unmasks the vicious Left
Online activists are the new revolutionaries and, as with their historical counterparts, they are becoming radicalised and violent in pursuit…
Daniel Andrews’ greatest hits
A broken record couldn’t be so familiar. In front of the cameras, the Victorian Premier’s song is now a chorus…
Remember Menzies’ ‘forgotten people’
Another prominent former Liberal Party leader has warned the party against any further ‘shift to left’ calling instead for a…
What does Xi Jinping’s recent diplomacy flurry tell us?
Since declaring a decisive victory over the Covid pandemic in February, Chinese President Xi Jinping has engaged in an active diplomacy drive,…
The gap between worlds
The scariest thing about some political debates in Australia is not the polarisation or nastiness that can often arise –…
The Voice would rhyme
There’s a pub somewhere in the Aussie outback which displays a worn and fraying sign: ‘Free beer tomorrow.’ The larrikin…
Budget ‘blame-game’ hits fever pitch
If it wasn’t so serious it might work as a form of dark comedy or a pantomime for brainwashed adults.…
New Zealand’s Voice divided us
As a nation that stood proudly on the world stage as one of the most tolerant and inclusive societies in…
Big-Endians versus Little-Endians
Those who know their history will recall the Great Egg Rebellions of Lilliput waged between the Big-Endians who demanded that…
Three cheers for Jacinta!
Three cheers for Jacinta! Her promotion is good for Dutton, good for the Coalition, and good for the country. The…
Alan Jones: Is the US losing global credibility? Here is the answer…
You won’t read this on the front page or even hear it discussed; but, over the last few weeks, we…
Dominion over Fox
The defamation action by Dominion (makers of voting machines in the US) over Fox News was settled today for US$787.5…
The Liberals must champion economic responsibility
News last week that the Daniel Andrews-led Victorian Labor government is so desperate for cash they have approached his federal…
The real Liberal renewal needed to save Australia from identity politics
The Liberal Party is at a low ebb, out of office across mainland Australia. Its vacillating, timid lack of self-confidence…
Who are you really listening to?
For a while, I have kept relatively quiet about the goings-on of the Catholic Church. When I have written about…
Two cheers for democracy!?
Two cheers for democracy! So wrote E.M. Forster speaking for the Bloomsbury set, the affluent intellectuals who were the leading ‘Wokes’ of…
AstraZeneca’s fall from grace
I am not, nor have I ever been anti-vax, although I do have a few friends who are. I have…
All the way with the USA
It is possible the Albanese government decided one national discussion was enough. Rationalising that Australians’ concerns over the Voice would…
Elon Musk: the keys to the cage
Liberty is a wild animal: it cannot be domesticated, it refuses to be tamed, and it’ll die if you force…
Childish insults and bullying behaviour. Will the adults please enter the room?!
When Prime Minister Albanese first released the government’s plan to introduce a referendum to amend the Constitution to include an…
Why central banks will struggle to conquer inflation
Interest rates could be higher for longer than people expect
The Liberals need to thrash-out their energy policy with a debate
Defeat in the Aston by-election in Melbourne this month was a bitter blow for the Liberals. Victorian party leader, John…
Lick the world
US President Joe Biden has come up with some shockingly garbled speech moments in his short time as leader of…
My transgression confession
Moira Deeming, I have a confession to make… I crossed the line. You might not like what I did, but…
Australia, not Britain, leads the Commonwealth
Britain has a long and storied tradition of palming unwanted things off to Australia. Aside the obvious example, the Territory of…
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