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Buyer beware as Bowen ‘models’ energy bills again
Anyone following Energy Minister Chris Bowen on X would know that Peter Dutton is living rent-free in the minister’s head.…
Welcome to Country
A ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremony, done in the correct manner, may well be a welcome addition to our culture, (Chris…
The demise of the traditional lecture
The new Adelaide University – an amalgamation of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia – will…
On trial for Spectator Australia posts
What do you think the punishment should be for a doctor who shares Spectator Australia articles online? Maybe a public…
Joel Gilbert – The Climate According to AI Al Gore
Some have heard of the malady, Trump Derangement Syndrome. I confess that for 24 years I have suffered Al Gore…
Quad: Biden’s hot mic and Albanese’s cringe Moon landing comments
There is no news on whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ‘put the hard word’ on the Prime Minister of India,…
Ireland ditches hate speech legislation – for now
Ireland has ditched its controversial hate speech legislation for the second time in five years. The news has been confirmed…
Pandemic questions that demand answers
Two years after our health bureaucrats got together and decided it was time to call the pandemic off, we are…
Might Ukraine’s Kursk offensive be a precursor to peace?
Historian Victor Davis Hanson’s most recent book, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation looks at four historical…
West and East divide along the economic green line
Dismantling reliable power is crippling Australia
A serious tax agenda for Queensland
Queensland voters go to the polls in just over a month, and despite a lot of political announcements there has…
2026 Census: confusion about gender requires biological clarity
The slowly simmering cultural and legal conflicts between the rights of natal females and males who identify as female has…
Nuclear fear-mongering is not science
Nuclear energy opponents frequently cite cost and safety as reasons for Australia not to include nuclear plants in our future…
Moira Deeming v John Pesutto
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennet, Jane’s puritanical sister, is recorded as saying: ‘Loss of virtue in a…
Hate crime and gender lawfare
As if the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill tabled on September 12 isn’t draconian enough, another new federal bill has been…
A chilling move toward government overreach
In 2024, the Liberal Party, under the leadership of Scott Morrison, proposed the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation)…
The final nail in the Liberal broad church?
Weakness on the misinformation and disinformation bill could prove fatal
Extinction lecture event
Adelaide University, one of the elite Group of Eight universities in Australia (and my alma mater in the 1970s pre-Woke…
100 dignitaries sign open letter condemning Brazil
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADL) have launched an open letter, condemning Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ attacks on X. More…
Rainbow Toolkit activism, let children be children
Most parents today send their children off to kindergarten and school with the expectation that as they progress from infancy…
Government spending needs reform before taxes
I would like a dollar for every time I’ve read how much the Australian economy needs tax reform. Sure, it…
A wider malaise in the culture of Defence
The news that campaign and gallantry medals will be stripped from a bevy of middle-ranking officers over allegations of war…
The Greens’ housing delusion
There is nothing better than living in your own home. Even with a mortgage, being able to be the king…
Is Thierry Breton’s resignation a win for Elon Musk?
Described as ‘France’s powerful European Commissioner’, the EU bureaucrat who lectured Elon Musk about online censorship has resigned suddenly. Thierry…
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