Labor’s socialist bedroom tax

Labor’s socialist bedroom tax

Desperation has taken over the Treasury. Jim Chalmers is staring down a trillion-dollar black hole which is threatening to consume the bedrock of Labor’s leadership strategy – soft-core socialism. Thanks to poor choices, reckless spending, self-indulgent policy, and attempts to buy voter loyalty with last-minute election promises – the wealth of ...
A letter to antiquity

A letter to antiquity

Dear Antiquity, It is 2025 AD, and Western Civilisation is on the precipice. We have ignored the lessons you forewarned us of. Countless exemplars that you provided in the hope the future would not repeat the mistakes of the past are obsolete. History is being rewritten by those who seek to destroy their own nations. Men and women who seek power for ...
Taxing spare bedrooms: policy theatre, not progress

Taxing spare bedrooms: policy theatre, not progress

Every so often in Australia’s housing debate, an idea pops up that perfectly captures where our culture has gone astray. The latest is the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ – a proposal to make it more expensive to own more bedrooms than one supposedly ‘needs’. The argument goes that if older Australians were financially pressured to downsize out of their family ...
Who will defend a nation of renters?

Who will defend a nation of renters?

Amid the shouting match between NIMBYs and YIMBYs, between mass-migration extremists and advocates of sensible population policy, between spiralling housing prices and the wider economy, few seem willing to ask the deeper questions about housing itself. Why does it matter that people own a home? If it’s cheaper, why not settle for a nation of renters? ...
Flattery inflation

Flattery inflation

At Donald Trump’s cabinet committee meeting this week, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said the following to his beloved president: There’s only one thing I wish for. That that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realises that you are the single finest candidate since the Nobel Peace award

Labor’s socialist bedroom tax

Labor’s socialist bedroom tax
Desperation has taken over the Treasury. Jim Chalmers is staring down a trillion-dollar black hole which is threatening to consume the bedrock of Labor’s leadership strategy – soft-core socialism. Thanks to poor choices, reckless spending, self-indulgent policy, and attempts to buy voter loyalty with last-minute election promises – the wealth of ...

A letter to antiquity

A letter to antiquity
Dear Antiquity, It is 2025 AD, and Western Civilisation is on the precipice. We have ignored the lessons you forewarned us of. Countless exemplars that you provided in the hope the future would not repeat the mistakes of the past are obsolete. History is being rewritten by those who seek to destroy their own nations. Men and women who seek power for ...

Taxing spare bedrooms: policy theatre, not progress

Taxing spare bedrooms: policy theatre, not progress
Every so often in Australia’s housing debate, an idea pops up that perfectly captures where our culture has gone astray. The latest is the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ – a proposal to make it more expensive to own more bedrooms than one supposedly ‘needs’. The argument goes that if older Australians were financially pressured to downsize out of their family ...

Who will defend a nation of renters?

Who will defend a nation of renters?
Amid the shouting match between NIMBYs and YIMBYs, between mass-migration extremists and advocates of sensible population policy, between spiralling housing prices and the wider economy, few seem willing to ask the deeper questions about housing itself. Why does it matter that people own a home? If it’s cheaper, why not settle for a nation of renters? ...

Flattery inflation

Flattery inflation
At Donald Trump’s cabinet committee meeting this week, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said the following to his beloved president: There’s only one thing I wish for. That that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realises that you are the single finest candidate since the Nobel Peace award