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Offshore wind is no longer an energy debate

Offshore wind is no longer an energy debate

For years, offshore wind has been presented as a narrow climate and energy question – a matter of emissions targets, megawatts and project timelines. That framing is now outdated. Across the United States and Europe, offshore wind is increasingly being reassessed through a very different lens: national security. Defence agencies, intelligence officials ...
NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights

NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights

New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has exercised post-Bondi Beach massacre knee-jerk reaction laws to impose a blanket ban on protests across a large area of Greater Sydney for 14 days. And while many NSW constituents understand that this ban has been linked to the Bondi mass shooting, the dubious logic that underpins this idea, and the ...
Disarmed, divided, dependent

Disarmed, divided, dependent

Australia has been profoundly betrayed. Canberra is not governing in the interests of the people; politicians are systematically entrenching their own authority against us. Their greatest fear appears to be a strong, proud, united citizenry rising to demand accountability and reclaim what has been taken. That is why every crisis, every tragedy, every ...
Well, that didn’t take long!

Well, that didn’t take long!

On December 6, I published an article on Substack, later also by The Spectator Australia, decrying the then imminent social media ban for those under 16. I concluded my article thus: ‘Nice internet you’ve got there, be a shame if we stopped letting you use it.’ First, they came for the under-16s etc. The only ones it protects is the government and ...
Cultural frustration and the Age of Influencers

Cultural frustration and the Age of Influencers

In an age where algorithmic outrage is the quickest route to influence, it is little wonder that two of the most divisive figures in modern media, Abbie Chatfield and Andrew Tate, have risen not by offering serious ideas, but by presenting a convenient villain on which to pin cultural frustration. They sit on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum ...
Move the Capital to Alice

Move the Capital to Alice

In a recent essay, Outback Gothic, I tried to define a new genre, one that lives outside what critics call Australian Gothic. Originally from the Pilbara and Kimberley, the unintended arrogance of that title has jarred with me all my life. Australian Gothic, from what I can gather, means desolation: cool weather with occasional heat, towns abandoned to ...
Australia needs a Joseph

Australia needs a Joseph

The Bible tells the story of Joseph, a man who rose from slavery to become the economic steward of Egypt. When Pharaoh dreamt of seven fat years followed by seven years of famine, Joseph interpreted the message correctly: prosperity was not permanent, and prudent leadership was necessary. Joseph ordered Egypt to store grain during the years of ...

Offshore wind is no longer an energy debate

Offshore wind is no longer an energy debate
For years, offshore wind has been presented as a narrow climate and energy question – a matter of emissions targets, megawatts and project timelines. That framing is now outdated. Across the United States and Europe, offshore wind is increasingly being reassessed through a very different lens: national security. Defence agencies, intelligence officials ...

NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights

NSW Police Commissioner Bans Protests, Suppressing Fundamental Democratic Rights
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon has exercised post-Bondi Beach massacre knee-jerk reaction laws to impose a blanket ban on protests across a large area of Greater Sydney for 14 days. And while many NSW constituents understand that this ban has been linked to the Bondi mass shooting, the dubious logic that underpins this idea, and the ...

Disarmed, divided, dependent

Disarmed, divided, dependent
Australia has been profoundly betrayed. Canberra is not governing in the interests of the people; politicians are systematically entrenching their own authority against us. Their greatest fear appears to be a strong, proud, united citizenry rising to demand accountability and reclaim what has been taken. That is why every crisis, every tragedy, every ...

Well, that didn’t take long!

Well, that didn’t take long!
On December 6, I published an article on Substack, later also by The Spectator Australia, decrying the then imminent social media ban for those under 16. I concluded my article thus: ‘Nice internet you’ve got there, be a shame if we stopped letting you use it.’ First, they came for the under-16s etc. The only ones it protects is the government and ...

Cultural frustration and the Age of Influencers

Cultural frustration and the Age of Influencers
In an age where algorithmic outrage is the quickest route to influence, it is little wonder that two of the most divisive figures in modern media, Abbie Chatfield and Andrew Tate, have risen not by offering serious ideas, but by presenting a convenient villain on which to pin cultural frustration. They sit on opposite sides of the ideological spectrum ...

Move the Capital to Alice

Move the Capital to Alice
In a recent essay, Outback Gothic, I tried to define a new genre, one that lives outside what critics call Australian Gothic. Originally from the Pilbara and Kimberley, the unintended arrogance of that title has jarred with me all my life. Australian Gothic, from what I can gather, means desolation: cool weather with occasional heat, towns abandoned to ...

Australia needs a Joseph

Australia needs a Joseph
The Bible tells the story of Joseph, a man who rose from slavery to become the economic steward of Egypt. When Pharaoh dreamt of seven fat years followed by seven years of famine, Joseph interpreted the message correctly: prosperity was not permanent, and prudent leadership was necessary. Joseph ordered Egypt to store grain during the years of ...