How Australia can prosper in a lawless world

How Australia can prosper in a lawless world

With Khamenei’s death, another war in the Middle East has begun. War, by its nature, is unpredictable, and there are multiple pathways this conflict could take if not managed properly ranging from a contained regional war to a broader conflict stretching from Europe to the borders of China, with the ever-present risk of nuclear escalation. To ...
Build-up to war

Build-up to war

As the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues to escalate with no clear end in sight, Australia’s politicians and policymakers must adopt a clear-eyed, Australia-first understanding of the conflict – guided by our national interests and not those of others. This means understanding both the immediate risks and the longer-term strategic ...
Policies for prosperity

Policies for prosperity

Grantlee Kieza’s biography of Mary Reibey (1777-1855), the woman pictured on the $20 note, provides a splendid account of how Australian pioneers’ self-reliance and can-do approach to tapping the continent’s latent wealth brought living standards 30-50 per cent above those of England within a generation. Convicts and emancipists still comprised half of ...
Europe is finally standing up to Trump

Europe is finally standing up to Trump

The longer the war in Iran churns on, the more hot-tempered and unhinged President Trump becomes. On Tuesday, Trump was at it again, lambasting Washington’s European allies on Truth Social for sitting on their hands and refusing to lift a finger to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf chokepoint through which around 20 per cent of the world’s ...
Labour is creating a tidal wave of bureaucracy

Labour is creating a tidal wave of bureaucracy

Labour’s record in government may have been a litany of U-turns and broken promises, but there’s one cause on which the party hasn’t wavered. When the party pledged before the election to ‘make equality central to policymaking’ this, it turns out, was quite true. Businesses clobbered by energy bills and those wanting the small boats to stop may be ...
Anas Sarwar stands by his call for Starmer to go

Anas Sarwar stands by his call for Starmer to go

As we head towards the Scottish parliamentary elections in May, one party leader has a particularly unenviable job: step forward Anas Sarwar. Only a couple of months ago the Scottish Labour leader was calling for the party’s national leader, Sir Keir Starmer, to step down. Now he has to convince the Scottish electorate to put his party in charge north ...
Can this millennial rapper save Nepal?

Can this millennial rapper save Nepal?

Balendra Shah does not look like your typical Nepali prime minister, and in many ways, this is precisely the point. The 35-year-old rapper-turned-mayor has just been propelled to the country’s highest office. Known for his reluctance to speak to the press and his brisk, almost nonchalant, style, ‘Balen’, as Nepalis affectionately call him, has a ...
Deeming them unfit to govern

Deeming them unfit to govern

The Orange Wave is baked-in. One Nation is comfortably sitting at 25 per cent primary vote, leading the Liberal Party as Australia’s unofficial opposition. What was once a ‘protest vote’ is now as much a part of the electoral furniture as the Palestinian protesters on Spring Street. We are witnessing an extinction level event for the party of ...

How Australia can prosper in a lawless world

How Australia can prosper in a lawless world
With Khamenei’s death, another war in the Middle East has begun. War, by its nature, is unpredictable, and there are multiple pathways this conflict could take if not managed properly ranging from a contained regional war to a broader conflict stretching from Europe to the borders of China, with the ever-present risk of nuclear escalation. To ...

Build-up to war

Build-up to war
As the United States and Israel’s war with Iran continues to escalate with no clear end in sight, Australia’s politicians and policymakers must adopt a clear-eyed, Australia-first understanding of the conflict – guided by our national interests and not those of others. This means understanding both the immediate risks and the longer-term strategic ...

Policies for prosperity

Policies for prosperity
Grantlee Kieza’s biography of Mary Reibey (1777-1855), the woman pictured on the $20 note, provides a splendid account of how Australian pioneers’ self-reliance and can-do approach to tapping the continent’s latent wealth brought living standards 30-50 per cent above those of England within a generation. Convicts and emancipists still comprised half of ...

Europe is finally standing up to Trump

Europe is finally standing up to Trump
The longer the war in Iran churns on, the more hot-tempered and unhinged President Trump becomes. On Tuesday, Trump was at it again, lambasting Washington’s European allies on Truth Social for sitting on their hands and refusing to lift a finger to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf chokepoint through which around 20 per cent of the world’s ...

Labour is creating a tidal wave of bureaucracy

Labour is creating a tidal wave of bureaucracy
Labour’s record in government may have been a litany of U-turns and broken promises, but there’s one cause on which the party hasn’t wavered. When the party pledged before the election to ‘make equality central to policymaking’ this, it turns out, was quite true. Businesses clobbered by energy bills and those wanting the small boats to stop may be ...

Anas Sarwar stands by his call for Starmer to go

Anas Sarwar stands by his call for Starmer to go
As we head towards the Scottish parliamentary elections in May, one party leader has a particularly unenviable job: step forward Anas Sarwar. Only a couple of months ago the Scottish Labour leader was calling for the party’s national leader, Sir Keir Starmer, to step down. Now he has to convince the Scottish electorate to put his party in charge north ...

Can this millennial rapper save Nepal?

Can this millennial rapper save Nepal?
Balendra Shah does not look like your typical Nepali prime minister, and in many ways, this is precisely the point. The 35-year-old rapper-turned-mayor has just been propelled to the country’s highest office. Known for his reluctance to speak to the press and his brisk, almost nonchalant, style, ‘Balen’, as Nepalis affectionately call him, has a ...

Deeming them unfit to govern

Deeming them unfit to govern
The Orange Wave is baked-in. One Nation is comfortably sitting at 25 per cent primary vote, leading the Liberal Party as Australia’s unofficial opposition. What was once a ‘protest vote’ is now as much a part of the electoral furniture as the Palestinian protesters on Spring Street. We are witnessing an extinction level event for the party of ...