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Energy crisis: households pay for safety mechanism
The energy crisis that became real for many Australians in 2022 is at severe risk of becoming the norm. Last…
Orbán’s Hungary exposes Australia’s faux conservatives
As I sit at Scruton’s Café in Budapest, reading the latest issue of the Hungarian Conservative, I wonder: would Peter Dutton rather…
A worm on a hook
For the record, I am energy agnostic. But I know this much: we need to drastically increase the supply of…
Perpetrating bureaucratic insolence
As I have watched, with a mixture of dismay and disgust, the public events coming to a head on Australia…
Stripping Christian schools of purpose: has the government counted the cost?
Many Christian schools in Australia are in dire trouble, from the very source – the Australian government – whose job…
Censorship: a threat to public health and safety?
Practitioners are the bulwark between people, weak or corrupt leaders, captured authorities, and powerful vested interests. This bulwark is being…
Latino Australia? A radical leftist populism may be lying in wait
According to the common narrative, the spectre of rightist authoritarianism has haunted the West since 2016. For as is usually…
No, renewables are not cheaper
‘Renewables are the cheapest form of new energy.’ – Chris Bowen A return to typical Queensland summer conditions this month…
The jaws effect
It’s not easy being pro-human in the shark debate. Eco-warriors think we not only hate sharks, but nature in general.…
Victoria’s Indigenous shame
If you believed the A-Grade spin emanating from the Victorian government’s massive media team, you would be forgiven for thinking…
Medical hostages: freedom died on the advice of experts
Imagine the government has mandated special tyres that you need to continue driving your car. You’re not sure why, as…
Climate ruminations: the markets reject Chalmers
Combatting the perceived incidence of global warming is driving government policies. In Australia this has been obvious for many years,…
Why did medical authorities reject vitamin D?
I hope this does not count as boasting, but I wrote, rather exasperatedly, about the lack of promotion of vitamin…
Combatting Woke tyranny: can science be saved?
The takeover of universities and scientific associations by radical Woke activists seeking to impose an ideological straight jacket on academia…
Biden: the merchant of hypocrisy
It seems to be a scientific law, like gravity, that whatever trespasses the US Democrats accuse the Republicans of, it…
Superwoke ChatGPT busted for bias
Hollywood has long speculated about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on the future of human civilisation. Increasingly, scientists…
Politics deep in the thrall of climate change
The issue of Climate Change stormed across our TV screens at the recent federal election. Funded by a renewables investor,…
The prostitutes of Davos
Once upon a time, Davos was a village in the Swiss Alps known for not much at all. Suddenly it…
Australia’s right to be intolerant of intolerance
Why is Australian democracy so overly, dangerously tolerant as to seem craven and weak, as it watches the ignorant aggro…
I’m offended: John Rich isn’t toning down dissent
Country music’s, John Rich has doubled down on dissent, criticising perpetual outrage in his latest ‘no’ to Woketopianism. Debuted on Twitter as…
Choosing your sport
What sport would you recommend your child play? If it’s football, most footballers have to retire by age 30, some…
Why does everyone hate Velma?
George Bernard Shaw once remarked that youth is wasted on the young. I have to disagree. Before discovering cigarettes, alcohol,…
One bright line between sanity and San Francisco
2022 will go down in history as the watershed year when the world’s figurehead of sane drug policy inadvertently surrendered…
Do Australian churches require buffer zones against protests?
Outside St. Mary’s Cathedral during Cardinal Pell’s funeral, a group of protesters heckled mourners with loud noise. The numbers vary;…
Breadlines and first world problems
There’s a deep irony behind Australia’s Woke warriors who spend their waking (and probably sleeping) hours obsessed with calling out…
