Australia is not short of arguments – it is short of confidence.
We remain a nation of builders – families, tradespeople, nurses, small business owners, and teachers who quietly keep the country standing. Yet our political conversation feels oddly detached from their lives. The noise is constant, but the moral centre is quiet. We manage, but we no ...
The Prime Minister’s Combatting Antisemitism, Hate, and Extremism omnibus bill, which his government is expected to ram through into law next week in a special sitting, fails to name-drop radical Islamic terror.
This is bizarre, given Islamic terror is the sole cause of the Bondi Beach terror attack and essentially the only ideology responsible for ...
Much has been written in recent years, and even recent days, about the threat posed to the mental wellbeing of children by malign external forces, whether it be X generating nude images of women, the misogyny spread by influencers such as Andrew Tate, or the welter of ‘misinformation’ available online. But a story at the weekend reminds us of one of ...
What seemed unbelievable a few years ago has suddenly become a very real possibility at the start of 2026.
Namely, the Islamic Republic of Iran looks increasingly likely to fall.
In what it seems nothing less than a spiritual revival, as well as political revolution, 50,000 mosques out of a total number of 75,000 have closed, with one of the most ...
An Iranian friend of mine once told me that ever since fleeing his homeland in the early days of Iran’s Islamic Republic, his grandfather had kept a packed suitcase by his front door, awaiting the day he may return. Alas, in his case, that day never came: the old man was buried before he could ever revisit the places and people he most cherished.
As a ...
South Australia’s most senior public servant has denied claims the state service has helped the government avoid political fallout from the toxic algal bloom. Allegations of public service politicisation became a flashpoint in hearings of the South Australian parliamentary inquiry into the toxic algal bloom last week. Ecologist Faith Coleman
Bernie Sanders has been rolling out political hot takes for more than half a century, and in recent years his familiar socialist prescriptions have found a new focus: artificial intelligence. In 2023 he argued that workers who use it should be entitled to a four-day week. In October of last year he called on corporations who employ AI to be hit with a ...
Operation Absolute Resolve, Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, was a brilliantly executed coup. The audacious raid did not undermine international law, as many European and Democratic politicians have said. But it did expose the weakness and pomposity of the world’s multilateral bodies. Maduro traded oil for loans with China while ...
It required an incredible amount of sophistication to achieve the desired result in Caracas: a dictator detained and transported alive. The mission had been planned and mapped out for months, worked and reworked at the behest of the Commander-in-Chief. No American casualties would be tolerated. Special Forces had been circling and at the ready for ...
I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is giving way to pity. Imagine watching women fling off their hijabs in glorious defiance of the cruel mullahs who rule over them and feeling nothing. Imagine seeing brave youths swarm the streets to confront the tyrants who oppress them and ...
I recently wrote a book countenancing the idea that the United States could buy Greenland, and I have received some very interesting responses. Some are perplexed at the utility of an Australian assessment of Greenland geostrategy (I’m from Canberra); others have admonished me personally for ‘willing into reality’ US ownership of Greenland. All I did ...
‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.’ This quote from TS Eliot has become a critical commonplace. And if we’re to take it as the truth, the young Dylan Thomas was even more precocious than we had previously realised. An academic at work on a complete collection of Thomas’s poetic output has discovered at least a dozen instances, dating from ...
Australia is not short of arguments – it is short of confidence.
We remain a nation of builders – families, tradespeople, nurses, small business owners, and teachers who quietly keep the country standing. Yet our political conversation feels oddly detached from their lives. The noise is constant, but the moral centre is quiet. We manage, but we no ...
The Prime Minister’s Combatting Antisemitism, Hate, and Extremism omnibus bill, which his government is expected to ram through into law next week in a special sitting, fails to name-drop radical Islamic terror.
This is bizarre, given Islamic terror is the sole cause of the Bondi Beach terror attack and essentially the only ideology responsible for ...
Much has been written in recent years, and even recent days, about the threat posed to the mental wellbeing of children by malign external forces, whether it be X generating nude images of women, the misogyny spread by influencers such as Andrew Tate, or the welter of ‘misinformation’ available online. But a story at the weekend reminds us of one of ...
What seemed unbelievable a few years ago has suddenly become a very real possibility at the start of 2026.
Namely, the Islamic Republic of Iran looks increasingly likely to fall.
In what it seems nothing less than a spiritual revival, as well as political revolution, 50,000 mosques out of a total number of 75,000 have closed, with one of the most ...
An Iranian friend of mine once told me that ever since fleeing his homeland in the early days of Iran’s Islamic Republic, his grandfather had kept a packed suitcase by his front door, awaiting the day he may return. Alas, in his case, that day never came: the old man was buried before he could ever revisit the places and people he most cherished.
As a ...
South Australia’s most senior public servant has denied claims the state service has helped the government avoid political fallout from the toxic algal bloom. Allegations of public service politicisation became a flashpoint in hearings of the South Australian parliamentary inquiry into the toxic algal bloom last week. Ecologist Faith Coleman
Bernie Sanders has been rolling out political hot takes for more than half a century, and in recent years his familiar socialist prescriptions have found a new focus: artificial intelligence. In 2023 he argued that workers who use it should be entitled to a four-day week. In October of last year he called on corporations who employ AI to be hit with a ...
Operation Absolute Resolve, Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, was a brilliantly executed coup. The audacious raid did not undermine international law, as many European and Democratic politicians have said. But it did expose the weakness and pomposity of the world’s multilateral bodies. Maduro traded oil for loans with China while ...
It required an incredible amount of sophistication to achieve the desired result in Caracas: a dictator detained and transported alive. The mission had been planned and mapped out for months, worked and reworked at the behest of the Commander-in-Chief. No American casualties would be tolerated. Special Forces had been circling and at the ready for ...
I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is giving way to pity. Imagine watching women fling off their hijabs in glorious defiance of the cruel mullahs who rule over them and feeling nothing. Imagine seeing brave youths swarm the streets to confront the tyrants who oppress them and ...
I recently wrote a book countenancing the idea that the United States could buy Greenland, and I have received some very interesting responses. Some are perplexed at the utility of an Australian assessment of Greenland geostrategy (I’m from Canberra); others have admonished me personally for ‘willing into reality’ US ownership of Greenland. All I did ...
‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.’ This quote from TS Eliot has become a critical commonplace. And if we’re to take it as the truth, the young Dylan Thomas was even more precocious than we had previously realised. An academic at work on a complete collection of Thomas’s poetic output has discovered at least a dozen instances, dating from ...