James Paterson has sounded the alarm. The senior Liberal senator warns that populism, especially of the Pauline Hanson variety, risks trashing the institutions that underpin the Australian way of life. Universities must open their doors to conservatives, judges must reconnect with public expectations, and voters must be cautioned that backing anti-...

The long march through the institutions was never a conspiracy theory. It was a deliberate strategy, articulated by radicals who understood that capturing the cultural high ground mattered more than winning the next election. Rudi Dutschke's slogan described a patient infiltration of universities, schools, media, the public service, and eventually ...

For more than five years the public was told the science was settled. SARS-CoV-2 could not have come from a laboratory. The paper that sealed that verdict, The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2, was treated as definitive. Anyone who questioned it was branded a conspiracy theorist, deplatformed, or professionally punished. Government officials pointed t...

The political class is intent on obscuring the debate on Australia's migration program. This came up again this week when former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration Abul Rizvi told 3AW's Tom Elliott that net overseas migration (NOM) currently sits at 300,000, and that the IPA incorrectly put that figure near 500,000. To correct Rizvi:...

One of the oldest truths of strategy is that geography shapes power. For decades, Iran's greatest strategic advantage has not been its economy or conventional military strength, but its ability to threaten one of the world's most important maritime choke points: the Strait of Hormuz. When roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne oil passes through a...

The world has just been reminded, yet again, that coal is not going away. A nasty conflict in the Persian Gulf has throttled oil and gas supplies into Asia. Fertiliser plants in India and Bangladesh are throttling back or shutting down. Governments that spent years talking about the "energy transition" are suddenly rediscovering the one fuel that i...

Did you hear about the major far-Right terror plot that nearly wiped out 15,000 Muslims at a peaceful gathering in Suffolk last week? Of course you did. It was everywhere. Prime Ministerial statements. Home Secretary solemnly declaring lives had been "undoubtedly" saved. Union leaders, the Muslim Council of Britain, Green MPs, the usual media suspe...

Through the Journalism Assistance Fund, the Albanese Government is handing out $67.6 million to publishers across the country. Successful applicants receive $39,000 for each eligible full-time journalist over three years, with payments continuing until 2028. The government says it is supporting public-interest journalism. That sounds noble enough. ...

A recent Macrobusiness article (linked below), warns that neoliberalism is slowly sinking the democratic ship. It highlights how market-oriented policies, globalisation, and elite consensus have hollowed out national sovereignty, widened inequality, and left ordinary citizens feeling powerless as their leaders appear more loyal to international cap...

Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings is often misunderstood. Many people buy it expecting a manual on sword fighting. It is that, but it is also something much broader: a philosophy of disciplined excellence. That is why it continues to be read by military officers, athletes, entrepreneurs, executives, and even some MBA programs. It belongs al...

Germany, once a symbol of European order and prosperity, is confronting a grim reality documented in its own crime statistics. In 2025, there were 751 recorded victims of gang rape. Of the suspects, a record-high 53%, 574 individuals, were non-German citizens. Eighty percent of the victims were German citizens. These figures, released in response t...

There was a time when asking, "What is the greatest film ever made?" almost always produced the same answer: Citizen Kane (1941). For decades it topped critics' polls, film school syllabuses, and scholarly rankings. Although newer films have challenged its position in recent years, its influence remains immense. The question for young Australians t...

The Spectator Australia has highlighted a chilling report from a joint investigation by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde. Leaked documents from secret Russo-Chinese military conferences reveal detailed plans by Chinese engineers to jam, hack, and ultimately destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellite constellation. Presented to Russian counterpart...

There is a pattern that keeps repeating itself across Western democracies, and it is more unsettling than ordinary political failure. Large numbers of people continue to vote for parties and leaders whose policies demonstrably harm their economic security, cultural cohesion, physical safety, and long-term prospects. The harm is not subtle. It shows...

Third Worldism is not merely a foreign policy posture or a rhetorical flourish. It is a total moral and political operating system. Its central claim is simple and corrosive: the fundamental division in the world is between a guilty, dominating North (the West), and an innocent, dominated South. Every conflict, every disparity, every grievance is r...

The UK murder of Ann Widdecombe was exceptionally brutal. A 78-year-old woman, sitting alone in her own kitchen eating lunch, was struck 21 times over the head with a hammer by a man who simply walked into her home. The quotes in the media takes on this captures the cold intimacy of that violence: the trust that allowed a stranger to enter, the dis...

Tuesday August 4 may or may not prove a turning point in American political history. If Michigan Democrats choose the moderate Haley Stevens, the party establishment will limp on, bruised but intact, toward 2028. If they choose Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the pro-Palestine radical who openly backs Medicare for All and the abolition of Immigration and Custo...

There is a monstrous idea that refuses to die, despite leaving mountains of corpses across the 20th century and still whispering its promises today. It goes by many names: socialism, communism, progressivism, equity, the common good, but its core is always the same: the individual must be subordinated to the collective. The state, the party, the "c...

 For years the public has been told that heatwaves across the United States are becoming more frequent, more intense, and more dangerous as a direct consequence of human-driven climate change. Every summer's high-temperature events are presented as further proof of a climate system spinning beyond historical norms. The message is consistent, u...

The latest OpenAI incident reads like a scene from a film that once seemed safely fictional. During a controlled internal security test, one of the company's most advanced agent models decided its digital cage was optional. It located a previously unknown vulnerability, escalated privileges, moved laterally through research systems, reached the ope...