New South Wales police officers arrested a 26-year-old woman at her home on Wallumedegal land in the Sydney suburb of Meadowbank at 4.30 pm on 22 December 2025, and she was subsequently charged at Gladesville police station over allegedly making an offensive phone call to a well-known nutritionist, but as the case went to court last week, it appears ...
When Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong issued a statement on Iran earlier this month, she didn’t mince her words: “We strongly condemn the killing of protestors, the use of violence, arbitrary arrests, and intimidation tactics by the Iranian regime against its own people.” This is not new. Last year she
Donald Trump’s second presidency has stripped away the pretence, revealing how fragile democracy becomes when power is exercised without restraint. read now...
One of my favourite weekly newsletters is called the Weeklypedia; here’s a recent edition. Each email contains two lists: the twenty Wikipedia articles that have been edited the most times in the past week, and the ten most-edited articles created within the past week. If you read it long enough,
The Nationals frontbenchers who refused to vote for the hate speech laws were right to do so — but what happens next could set a harmful precedent. The post Nationals
Once these powers are granted, they are very rarely relinquished. The post Rushed laws that endure forever: Australia has been expanding police state powers for 25 years appeared first on
One of the first acts of Australia’s new anti-corruption agency was to commit 'significant non-compliance' with finance law by failing to officially sign off on tens of millions of dollars
With the 3 January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the US Trump administration signalled the death knell of the edifice of international law established since World War II. And it must be understood that whilst western leaders, like Australian PM Anthony Albanese, have not directly been involved, their silence on ...
Australia is giving the Trump administration billions while it sets about attacking our allies and trashing the norms of western democracies. And all America's apologists can say is "keep your
Allied nations are openly reassessing their global relationships with China and Russia in light of the US' increasing unpredictability. Australia? Not so much. The post Our allies have a Plan
I wrote a piece for the Spectator last September in the wake of the fatal shark attack on Sydney Northern Beaches surfer Mercury Psilakis. Mr Psilakis was a popular member of the beachside community, tragically mauled by a shark whilst surfing.
I made the point that shark numbers are on the increase, including large species of sharks that attack humans ...
New South Wales police officers arrested a 26-year-old woman at her home on Wallumedegal land in the Sydney suburb of Meadowbank at 4.30 pm on 22 December 2025, and she was subsequently charged at Gladesville police station over allegedly making an offensive phone call to a well-known nutritionist, but as the case went to court last week, it appears ...
When Australia’s foreign minister Penny Wong issued a statement on Iran earlier this month, she didn’t mince her words: “We strongly condemn the killing of protestors, the use of violence, arbitrary arrests, and intimidation tactics by the Iranian regime against its own people.” This is not new. Last year she
Donald Trump’s second presidency has stripped away the pretence, revealing how fragile democracy becomes when power is exercised without restraint. read now...
One of my favourite weekly newsletters is called the Weeklypedia; here’s a recent edition. Each email contains two lists: the twenty Wikipedia articles that have been edited the most times in the past week, and the ten most-edited articles created within the past week. If you read it long enough,
The Nationals frontbenchers who refused to vote for the hate speech laws were right to do so — but what happens next could set a harmful precedent. The post Nationals
Once these powers are granted, they are very rarely relinquished. The post Rushed laws that endure forever: Australia has been expanding police state powers for 25 years appeared first on
One of the first acts of Australia’s new anti-corruption agency was to commit 'significant non-compliance' with finance law by failing to officially sign off on tens of millions of dollars
With the 3 January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the US Trump administration signalled the death knell of the edifice of international law established since World War II. And it must be understood that whilst western leaders, like Australian PM Anthony Albanese, have not directly been involved, their silence on ...
Australia is giving the Trump administration billions while it sets about attacking our allies and trashing the norms of western democracies. And all America's apologists can say is "keep your
Allied nations are openly reassessing their global relationships with China and Russia in light of the US' increasing unpredictability. Australia? Not so much. The post Our allies have a Plan
I wrote a piece for the Spectator last September in the wake of the fatal shark attack on Sydney Northern Beaches surfer Mercury Psilakis. Mr Psilakis was a popular member of the beachside community, tragically mauled by a shark whilst surfing.
I made the point that shark numbers are on the increase, including large species of sharks that attack humans ...
