From Nuremberg: I’ve been exploring the city that was home to both the beginning and the end of the most atrocious form of ideological extremism in the 20th Century. Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler conducted his Nazi Party propaganda rallies during the 1930s, became the scene of an American victory parade in 1945 where the huge swastika ...
On 15 December, I witnessed horrific news footage of a massacre at Bondi, a nation reeling, not from an unforeseeable shock, but from the predictable consequences of an unrestrained ideology of hate tolerated in the name of multiculturalism.
What confronts us is a failure of governance and civic courage so profound that it defies comprehension and ...
After four days of looking like a rabbit in the headlights, embattled Australian prime minister, Labor’s Anthony Albanese, finally started to act like a national leader willing to do what’s right. Yesterday, Albanese announced his government’s response to a plan to combat anti-Semitism proposed by his hand-picked special envoy on anti-Semitism, Jewish ...
All parents and teachers of teenagers will know two things. The first is that teenagers are the human equivalent of seismometers when it comes to perceived unfairness: they are acutely sensitive to any injustice or unequal treatment, and if they feel they are not being treated the same as their peers, this can quickly erupt into an outburst of outrage ...
Russia started the war on Ukraine, so Russia should pay for the damage it has wrought. Such was Volodymyr Zelensky’s forceful message to European leaders last night as he pleaded for a ‘reparations loan’ backed by the €190 billion (£167 billion) of Russian Central Bank capital frozen in a Belgian clearing bank since Putin’s full-scale invasion. ‘Just ...
Australia will see the biggest gun buyback since the 1990s, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a national scheme on Friday. Under the plan, similar to the 1996 one introduced by John Howard after the Port Arthur massacre, the states and territories will be responsible for collecting, processing and
Five genre-bending drama series made keenly anticipated returns to television this year, all of them meeting expectations convincingly enough to ensure a further season. Clearing the hurdle for renewal is a tougher challenge than ever. With risk-averse investors punting on what they assume to be tried and tested recipes for
Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention.
Many people can’t have read it, because it is full of incendiary details which demolish the case for mass migration. The MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not ...
Australia’s political right is fracturing, but not because conservatives suddenly discovered a dozen new philosophies. The truth is far simpler, and far more damning: the Liberal Party abandoned almost every foundational conservative principle, and the principles didn’t disappear. They simply migrated elsewhere.
Look across the political landscape. ...
One of the great confusions in modern Australia is the belief that niceness equals alignment.
Every Australian has had a pleasant interaction with a shop owner from a different culture. They are polite. They smile. They ask about your day. You walk away thinking: What a nice person. What’s all this hysteria about fanaticism?
That conclusion feels ...
ChatGPT, CC BYOver the past three years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on society. AI’s impact on human writing, in particular, has been enormous. The large language models that power AI tools such as ChatGPT are trained on a wide variety of textual data, and
If 2024 was the year of elections, it follows that 2025 has been the year of MoGs. New governments often have new ideas about public administration and rearrange things accordingly. But this year, a number of reelected governments have executed significant machinery of government changes (MoGs). The ACT and Western
From Nuremberg: I’ve been exploring the city that was home to both the beginning and the end of the most atrocious form of ideological extremism in the 20th Century. Nuremberg’s Zeppelin Field, where Adolf Hitler conducted his Nazi Party propaganda rallies during the 1930s, became the scene of an American victory parade in 1945 where the huge swastika ...
On 15 December, I witnessed horrific news footage of a massacre at Bondi, a nation reeling, not from an unforeseeable shock, but from the predictable consequences of an unrestrained ideology of hate tolerated in the name of multiculturalism.
What confronts us is a failure of governance and civic courage so profound that it defies comprehension and ...
After four days of looking like a rabbit in the headlights, embattled Australian prime minister, Labor’s Anthony Albanese, finally started to act like a national leader willing to do what’s right. Yesterday, Albanese announced his government’s response to a plan to combat anti-Semitism proposed by his hand-picked special envoy on anti-Semitism, Jewish ...
All parents and teachers of teenagers will know two things. The first is that teenagers are the human equivalent of seismometers when it comes to perceived unfairness: they are acutely sensitive to any injustice or unequal treatment, and if they feel they are not being treated the same as their peers, this can quickly erupt into an outburst of outrage ...
Russia started the war on Ukraine, so Russia should pay for the damage it has wrought. Such was Volodymyr Zelensky’s forceful message to European leaders last night as he pleaded for a ‘reparations loan’ backed by the €190 billion (£167 billion) of Russian Central Bank capital frozen in a Belgian clearing bank since Putin’s full-scale invasion. ‘Just ...
Australia will see the biggest gun buyback since the 1990s, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a national scheme on Friday. Under the plan, similar to the 1996 one introduced by John Howard after the Port Arthur massacre, the states and territories will be responsible for collecting, processing and
Five genre-bending drama series made keenly anticipated returns to television this year, all of them meeting expectations convincingly enough to ensure a further season. Clearing the hurdle for renewal is a tougher challenge than ever. With risk-averse investors punting on what they assume to be tried and tested recipes for
Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention.
Many people can’t have read it, because it is full of incendiary details which demolish the case for mass migration. The MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not ...
Australia’s political right is fracturing, but not because conservatives suddenly discovered a dozen new philosophies. The truth is far simpler, and far more damning: the Liberal Party abandoned almost every foundational conservative principle, and the principles didn’t disappear. They simply migrated elsewhere.
Look across the political landscape. ...
One of the great confusions in modern Australia is the belief that niceness equals alignment.
Every Australian has had a pleasant interaction with a shop owner from a different culture. They are polite. They smile. They ask about your day. You walk away thinking: What a nice person. What’s all this hysteria about fanaticism?
That conclusion feels ...
ChatGPT, CC BYOver the past three years, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on society. AI’s impact on human writing, in particular, has been enormous. The large language models that power AI tools such as ChatGPT are trained on a wide variety of textual data, and
If 2024 was the year of elections, it follows that 2025 has been the year of MoGs. New governments often have new ideas about public administration and rearrange things accordingly. But this year, a number of reelected governments have executed significant machinery of government changes (MoGs). The ACT and Western