The Australian Constitution was sold as a bargain between a new national government and the colonies that became states. Canberra would handle defence, customs, currency, and relations with the outside world. Almost everything else: land, rivers, energy, schools, hospitals, the ordinary police power, would stay closer to the people who lived with t...

US Vice President J. D. Vance recently reached for language that one does not normally hear in discussions about artificial intelligence. Speaking on Bryce Crawford's podcast, Vance described a kind of "weird spiritual dark energy" surrounding some developments in AI. He spoke about people holding what amounted to a funeral for a discontinued AI mo...

The pattern is no longer a rumour circulating in social media comment sections. It shows up in survey after survey, and it is specific enough that treating it as a generic "women's mental health crisis" misses the point. White liberal women, especially the young, report the highest rates of anxiety, depression, psychiatric diagnosis, and low life s...

There was a time when global warming arrived dressed for the Apocalypse. The poles would melt, the seas would rise, the forests would burn, crops would fail and humanity would discover that the four horsemen had traded their horses for sport utility vehicles. Every unusually hot day was a preview of the inferno, every cyclone a warning from the fut...

 The argument has travelled a long way from 2020. What used to be dismissed as speculation now sits closer to how a large part of the public reconstructs 2020–2022: not as a single blunder, but as a sequence in which official story and institutional behaviour pulled in opposite directions. The core claim is simple and harsh. Lockdowns were sol...

Doug Casey (link below), has been making this argument since the 1970s, which is why the essay still relevant. The phrase "Deep State" is newer than the thing it names. What he is describing is an informal but durable network that uses the official State as both weapon and camouflage, and that network is structurally hostile to individual liberty b...

There is a comforting story that ordinary citizens rule themselves. Every few years we walk into polling booths, mark pieces of paper and thereby determine the direction of the country. Politicians repeatedly tell us that they are our servants. Governments speak reverently of the will of the people. If the public becomes dissatisfied, another elect...

There is something wonderfully impressive about the word "theory." A theory sounds considerably grander than an observation, an argument or even an explanation. Nobody wins academic prestige by announcing that he has looked carefully at some evidence and reached a sensible conclusion. Say instead that you have "theorised" the phenomenon, preferably...

       Australia may keep elections while losing the freedom to decide which political organisations are allowed to contest them. Last Sunday, March for Australia held rallies around the country explicitly billed as demonstrations for free speech and against the federal government's hate laws. The rallies drew a mixture of natio...

The Turin case that just detonated across Italy is almost too perfect as an illustration. A 42-year-old Bangladeshi shopkeeper sexually assaults a 13-year-old girl in his convenience store. The whole thing is on CCTV. But wait: forty minutes earlier, the same cameras caught him assaulting an adult woman. Two attacks. Same man. Same day. Same shop. ...

       "The problem is that once the government gets the right to ban speech they don't like, it never stops." Harry Richardson, President of the British Australian Community, speaking at the Sydney Free Speech Rally on 30 August 2026: First, an acknowledgement. The BAC would like to acknowledge the Anglo explorers, the pioneers...

"Multiculturalism's advocates present their agenda in terms of enhancing diversity.By diversity they mean more variety, not what the DEI advocates mean by the word–replacement of merit by some definition of privilege, such as race, gender, sexual preference. The goal of multiculturalism is miscegenation.The result is the disappearance of diversity ...

Gender archaeology began with a legitimate complaint. Archaeologists had too often looked at weapons and declared a skeleton male, looked at jewellery and declared it female, then used those classifications to prove that men fought while women adorned themselves. That was circular reasoning, and the newer archaeology was right to attack it. The dif...

There is something peculiar about the Lindsay Clancy mistrial that has received surprisingly little attention. Almost everyone discussing the extraordinary 11–1 deadlock has begun from the same assumption: the eleven jurors were accurately describing what the twelfth juror was doing. But why should we assume that? The distinction matters because th...

 Same crime. Same exercise bands. Same basement. Same three dead children. Same paralysed mother in a wheelchair. Same postpartum psychosis defense. Same procession of psychiatric experts. Same pink-clad women outside the courthouse with "Believe" and "She Needed Help." One difference: a recording surfaces. Lindsay Clancy filmed the killings, ...

After One Nation's Secret Harbour result, a rational government would treat the vote as information: housing stress, migration scale, energy bills, and a public that no longer buys the official story. Anthony Albanese's reflex, as Macrobusiness lays out, is still to sledge the voters as misinformed, and, when the subject is immigration, to let the ...

US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio's line this week was not a slogan. It was an autopsy. After the Cold War, he said, America bought a fantasy: that where things are made no longer matters; that the cheapest factory on earth should win; that profits and consumer prices would civilise the planet into a chain of free-enterprise democracies that "look...

The argument that dare not speak its name is not Left versus Right. It is whether a people are allowed to prefer its own continuation. Every durable order, tribe, city, church, nation, treated survival of this group as a duty. Children, borders, memory, law, and force existed so that a particular way of life would still be there in a hundred years....

Australians have long understood that dangerous things come out of holes. We have funnel-web spiders, snakes under the veranda, goannas appearing where no goanna was invited, and assorted creatures capable of converting an innocent trip to the garden shed into an emergency-department admission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDAiq2-xeU. Americans...

"In Australia, the distance between each end of the dumbbell and the passion of the opposing positions is illustrated by the Prime Minister's reaction to One Nation's win in the Secret Harbour by-election. This week Anthony Albanese rounded on right-wing populists "peddling dangerous, divisive and dishonest" politics. He said: "They will say anythi...