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Christmas clean-up list!
As a child, I remember my parents lamenting how quickly the years seemed to fly by, insisting that each year…
2024: A year of missed opportunities for energy and the environment
As we approach the end of 2024, Australians have little reason to feel optimistic. Living standards have fallen, the currency…
Competition is essential to education
As night follows day, whenever the Year 12 ATAR results are released critics argue it must be replaced. Instead of…
The Pub Test: The real state of the Australian economy
Nobody has been this broke in generations
Happy Birthday, Menzies
It is the anniversary of the birthday of Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Australia’s most important Prime Minister. The Australia he…
Broke and broken: Victoria’s dire outlook set to get worse
Victoria finishes the year much as it started it. Badly. Very badly. With the state election still two years away…
A very Arabian Christmas: stolen cars, flying princesses, and the Russian Mafia
Part 2 of A very Arabian Christmas continues to do for Speccie Christmas articles what Die Hard did for Christmas…
The misinformation behind the MAD bill
The elites have lost control of the narrative
Post Assad: Kurdish autonomy needed in the New Syria
Terror in the Middle East continues where the ouster of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, along with the two non-Arab entities…
The misdeeds of AHPRA: high time to reform or repeal
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) was established on July 01, 2010, as part of the National Registration and Accreditation…
AHPRA and the Medical Board’s reign of terror
How regulatory capture endangers public health
Nuclear cannot match coal as a competitive electricity supply
The debate between the Coalition and the Labor Party has long had an ethereal dimension. They are in furious contention,…
Kevin Andrews: a quiet reformer
I first met Kevin Andrews in his ministerial office shortly after the 2004 election, where he interviewed me for the…
A very Arabian Christmas
What the hell was I thinking?
Why are nuclear opponents in Australia so reluctant to embrace change?
As the Coalition unveiled its plan to integrate nuclear energy into Australia’s energy mix, backed by Frontier Economics’ detailed modelling,…
Can Australia get lucky?
A few short years ago, Australia was known as The Lucky Country; now in the eyes of the developed world,…
Reflections on 2024
The year started off in the worst way imaginable. I had to make the painful decision to end my beloved…
Australia’s never-ending recession
Albanese should be nervous
Hate speech laws are part of the problem, not the solution
The abhorrent arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne, as well as repeated antisemitic attacks in Sydney, have…
Is Clare O’Neil right? Why Australia needs sustainable house price growth
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil made the ‘controversial’ comment that property prices will, and should, rise over the long term. I…
Social media bans and the control of centralised information
Much remains unclear following the rushed passage of the legislation banning under 16s from social media. Yet one thing is…
Climate chains – rise of the normies
Listen up deniers and right-wing nut-jobs! Our critical energy systems have been under attack for a couple of decades but…
Even climate fanatics are having doubts
Time for another review of the electricity market…? Commonwealth and state ministers have established a new four-person commission, the NEM…
Where are our leaders?
As I watch with dismay and some trepidation the shenanigans going on in our national capital, I cannot but ask,…
Science is settled by politicians
Real climate science held back fifty years by manic focus on CO2
