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The Liberals, coal, and nuclear power
In a famous 1963 speech, US civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. said: ‘I have a dream that my…
The war on misinformation is a sham
Anthony Albanese claims to be fighting a war on so-called ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. He recently exclaimed that ‘Australians want misinformation…
Net Zero by 2050: fantasy, or eco-imperial impoverishment?
As the years pass since the 2015 Paris climate conference made Net Zero by 2050 the global elite’s Holy Grail,…
ANZAC Day: recognising the dangers our soldiers face in times of no conflict
On Anzac Day it is important we recognise the sacrifices made by those who have served Australia and New Zealand’s…
Australia needs to assess security relations with Turkey
As we commemorate Anzac Day, and the fallen Australian soldiers who fought and lost their lives at Gallipoli, now more than ever…
Labor’s Middle East folly
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s call to her Tehran counterpart urging Iran to promote stability in the Middle East is indicative…
Port Macquarie educator fired during Covid slams medical authoritarianism
Mandate victim, Kassi Gilmour, has slammed medical authoritarianism. The former New South Wales school teacher was fired for refusing to comply with public health…
Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs
Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs, today we commemorate the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at…
A National Conservative critique of the recent ‘The Road Ahead’ conference in Fremantle
Perhaps no other city makes one recall as fondly the spirit of the 1980s in Australia as Fremantle. It was…
Australia does not need a policeman for a police state
When the Labor Party won the federal election off a tired, limping, and lost Morrison Liberal Party – we knew…
Climate psychology
Climate change is the gift that keeps on giving. We are familiar with the havoc it is supposedly wreaking on…
A diesel in the shed
You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to…
Punishing Petrovsky
It was Walter Map in his 12th century work ‘On the Trifles of Courtiers’ who created the character Eudo, who…
Albanese abridging too far
We have a serious problem in this country with governments wanting to silence views they don’t like. Let me remind…
Do fact-checkers check the facts?
Government should never have the power to determine what is or is not the truth, let alone silence dissenting views.…
Even Bernie Fraser thinks it’s a dumb idea
I’ve said it before, but Albo really has a way with words. You know the sort of thing: good is…
The Cass review and gender woo
The Cass Review into Britain’s National Health Service’s child-gender care services has recently been published. The review demolishes the entire…
Immigration challenges in the era of Islam
The motion was never going to pass, but the debate was needed in 2017 as much as now. The Sydney…
Community safety or grubby politics?
The highest duty of a government is the safety of its citizens and the current Labor government has betrayed this…
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I am truly surprised. In fact, I am staggered. I thought there was not a single menber of parliament in…
How eastern Europe became a fortress
On Tuesday, Rishi Sunak chose Poland to announce that the United Kingdom would boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent of national…
Lockdown’s impact on children is only beginning
Children who started school in the early days of the pandemic will have worse exam results well into the next…
Was the London horse rampage avoidable?
The sight of runaway military horses – one covered in blood – wasn’t what any Londoner expected to encounter on…
Tommy Robinson and the truth about two-tier policing
Tommy Robinson, a self-invented English ‘patriot’, was free to attend yesterday’s St George’s Day event in central London which descended…
Why New Zealand is cracking down on immigration
The government of New Zealand this week tightened the country’s working visa rules in order to stem historically high numbers…
Why is New Zealand’s deputy PM rowing with Chumbawamba?
In their musical heyday, the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba enjoyed a reputation for having an irreverent attitude towards those…
New Zealand’s imperial judiciary
If you cast your eyes across the Tasman right now, you can see the beginnings of an imperial judiciary, the…
Subversion within New Zealand
Recently querying why New Zealand governments make annual January pilgrimages to the Maori Pa at Ratana, to celebrate the birth…
The barbarity of this man
It’s a spectacle a lot of people would kill to see: Hugo Weaving in a Sydney Theatre Company co-production of…
Shylock and the Nazis: the truth about Shakespeare’s most infamous character
None of William Shakespeare’s characters are more controversial than Shylock. The moneylender from The Merchant of Venice may be the…
The music of their eloquence
It was a tweet by the novelist Joyce Carol Oates that warned us PBS, the American public broadcaster, had done…
Why one-man plays are all the rage
Well, it’s nice to feel on trend. The Today programme this morning carried an item on the popularity of one-man…
The naming of cats
All sorts of animals have been kept as pets over the centuries. We know of sparrows in Catullus and John…
The slave’s story: James, by Percival Everett, reviewed
Rereading The Adventures of Huckle-berry Finn can be a saddening experience. It’s not just the oft-repeated n-word that jolts, then…
The identical twins who captivated literary London
The dazzlingly beautiful identical twins Mamaine and Celia Paget were born in 1916 and brought up in rural Suffolk –…
Alone and defenceless: the tragic death of Captain Cook
The principal purpose of Captain James Cook’s last voyage, which began in Plymouth on 12 July 1776, was to discover…
What does Christian atheism mean?
Two opposed camps can only have a fruitful debate if they agree on what it is they disagree about. A…
Four female writers at the court of Elizabeth I
Almost a century ago, in A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf claimed that if William Shakespeare had had an…
The circus provides perfect cover for espionage
The hall was before me like a gigantic shell, packed with thousands and thousands of people. Even the arena was…
Hero and villain: The Two Loves of Sophie Strom, by Sam Taylor, reviewed
Counterfactual thinking can be compelling. We imagine love affairs missed out on, tragedies averted. What if I hadn’t boarded that…