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Simon Stiell: the one-man climate disaster lectures Australia
Welcome to the UN’s fruity dystopia
Education nation
The great equaliser becomes the great disappointment
Democracy demands civic competence, not just teenager passion
For many decades after Federation, the voting age for Australians was 21 – even when soldiers under the age of…
Decline in history education is creating a national identity crisis
History as a subject taught in Australian schools and universities is facing an existential crisis. Fewer students are choosing to…
Institutionalised childcare is failing children; it’s time parents had more choice
The charges of alleged child abuse against Melbourne childcare educator Joshua Dale Brown have sent shockwaves around the country, searing…
Let’s abandon the cult of Net Zero
Climate alarmism increasingly resembles an apocalyptic religious movement. It relies on special revelation mediated by the elites, threatens the end…
Free speech vs. surveillance in the digital age
Australia is quietly abandoning one of its most sacred inheritances: the right to speak freely. In its place, we are…
Albo’s TikTok dilemma
Chinese social media giant TikTok is set to launch a constitutional challenge to Australia’s controversial social media ban for under…
Israel is not the problem, Mr Albanese
Why, when Mr Albanese observed that Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, did he immediately blame the…
From glory to decline, a brighter future ahead
For more than four decades, the people of Iran have not seen diplomatic behaviour based on national interests and the…
Greens losing their roots
Dying on the hill of identity politics
Well done, Labor
Congratulations Australian Labor! As directionless as they are, and notwithstanding only managing to earn the vote of fewer than 3.5…
How Spain’s anti-migrant riots sparked speech controls in Europe
The recent antisemitic attacks in Melbourne (and indeed, throughout Australia) and Jillian Segal’s report, Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism,…
Australia’s story is one of success, for now
Australia’s construction industry is hopelessly dysfunctional, damaged by ‘disdain for the law’ and ‘frequent resort to practices of thuggery and…
Albanese is a disappointment, not a surprise
It seems to me that the senior leadership of our government is being very consistent. That does not mean I…
International Court of Justice pulls pin on climate grenade
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen may soon request Attorney General Michelle Rowland to brief the government’s legal team…
It’s time to give 16-year-olds the vote
The UK has ‘handed the vote’ to 16-year-olds in a move that has been seen as Sir Keir Starmer trying…
Umbrellas and allies: a Venetian parable for the PM
I’m going to pack an umbrella for Venice this week. Last time I was there, an angry grey sky closed…
Katter hoist on his own petard
Aussies ‘wise constitutional people’ says judge
The question that won’t go away
Now, more than ever, Australia should remember its history and the decisions made by our earlier Prime Ministers, Billy Hughes…
Australia, the Switzerland of the South Pacific
Peta Credlin has speculated that Albanese would like Australia to be a neutral Switzerland of the South Pacific ‘but without…
Don’t eat the seed corn, Jim
If Jim Chalmers increases the tax burden on capital gains, it would mark the biggest backflip on a tax pledge…
What the Tasmanian election means for the Crown
Since the grant of self-government by the British in 1856, the powers of the Crown in relation to Tasmania have…
Artificial Intelligence: the Ozempic of the mind
AI is just the latest technology in a sequence of inventions that have made humanity dumber. GPS destroyed our spatial…
Let’s say the quiet part out loud
It’s time to stop apologising for Australia
