The projection is stark enough to force a reckoning. By 2035, Chinese vehicles are expected to account for more than half of all new car sales in Australia. What was a marginal presence only a few years ago has become a rising tide that is already reshaping the market, overtaking traditional suppliers in monthly figures and accelerating with every ...

 Victoria once stood as Australia's manufacturing heartland and a magnet for enterprise. Under more than a decade of Labor rule, first under Daniel Andrews and then Jacinta Allan, now resigned and replaced by Ben Carroll, that position has been systematically dismantled. What business leaders are now telling the new premier is not a sudden com...

John Leake's Mind Viruses: America's Irrational Obsessions arrives as a clear-eyed autopsy of the psychic epidemics that have repeatedly seized Western societies. Written with the same forensic precision that marked his earlier collaborations with Peter McCullough, the book does not merely catalogue successive panics, it isolates the recurring mech...

"Former Toronto police detective has warned that Muslim grooming gangs, similar to those discovered in Britain, may already be operating in Canada after three men from the Ottawa area were arrested in connection with an alleged organized human-trafficking network spanning several Ontario cities. Donald Best, a former Toronto Police sergeant who wor...

A slender, elongated object in a Curiosity rover photograph from Gale Crater, Mars, has been declared an unexploded alien missile. According to UFO researcher Scott C. Waring and the usual circuit of speculative sites, the rock is evidence of an ancient war that destroyed a thriving Martian civilisation, possibly involving nuclear weapons. The clai...

"The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible." These radical words were spoken in 1909 by Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton, four years before he became the 28th president of the United States. In 1916, education reformer John Dewey began articulating what we now call "social justice." At the same ...

If Oscar Wilde had lived long enough to witness the COVID era, he might have concluded that every bureaucracy eventually produces its own court, complete with flatterers, celebrities, courtiers and, eventually, a prince or princess. The newly released Fauci diaries, as discussed in The American Conservative, sometimes read less like the private ref...

There is a question that liberal modernity has spent four centuries trying to make unaskable. It is not about GDP growth, or human rights frameworks, or the optimal calibration of mass immigration It is simpler and far more dangerous: by what right do you govern me? The manager has no answer. The technocrat has no answer. The diversity-and-inclusio...

On any ordinary day the information space contains multiple genuine crises: a shooting war over the Strait of Hormuz, European wildfires, heat emergencies, satellite launches with practical consequences for agriculture and disaster response, fiscal pressures, demographic shifts. Yet for the better part of the last two days, the dominant story acros...

 The mainstream media spent a week trying to sink Senator Malcolm Roberts. It failed, and the failure was instructive. According to the usual outlets, Roberts was to be framed as a conspiracy theorist of the more florid variety: chemtrails, 9/11, school shootings, Bondi false flags, the full costume. The method was familiar: mine old podcast a...

 Big Pharma has discovered the god molecule, and it wants to put it in a nasal spray. Scary names: Psilocybin, MDMA analogues, synthetic DMT, LSD derivatives, the same class of substances that once promised to expand consciousness, dissolve the ego, and reconnect humanity with the cosmos are now being refined, patented, and lined up for FDA ap...

 Corruption is one of those political diseases that rarely announces itself openly. It flourishes in complexity, hides inside bureaucracy, and feeds upon the assumption that ordinary citizens will never follow the paper trail. Public attention is usually drawn to the dramatic elements: gangland figures, bribery allegations, union intimidation,...

 For any side that treats its own premises as sacred, contradictions cease to be problems and become evidence of the critic's bad faith. That observation is not unique to the contemporary Left, but it is especially visible there at the moment. When a movement's moral self-conception is built around permanent righteousness, oppressor versus opp...

The latest round of fighting between the United States and Iran is not primarily about nuclear sites or regime change rhetoric. It is about control of a narrow waterway and the economic consequences of leaving that control unresolved. In June 2026 the two sides reached a memorandum of understanding that was supposed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz a...

A nation can endure a great many things: defeat, poverty, invasion, even civil war. What it cannot indefinitely endure is a sustained, official divorce from reality. Lies, once institutionalised, do not simply sit harmlessly in the archives. They reshape incentives, corrode competence, and eventually make coherent collective action impossible. The ...

In April 2025 at a Rochester, Minnesota playground, Shiloh Hendrix used a racial slur. That much is not in serious dispute. What remains contested, and what the conviction ultimately rested on, is the second interaction: the one captured on video with Sharmake Omar. According to the available accounts and the video itself, Hendrix was walking away ...

 Anthony Fauci's appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee intensified already serious allegations concerning his conduct during the COVID-19 crisis. Summoned to answer questions under subpoena, Fauci reportedly invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, refusing to address questions about pandemic...

On 29 July 2026, Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before a Senate committee and declined to answer more than a hundred questions by invoking the Fifth Amendment. Among them, courtesy of Senator Josh Hawley, were these: "What day of the week is it today?" "What color tie are you wearing?" "What colour is the carpet in front of you?" Each time the reply was the...

Romanian-French philosopher Emil Cioran (1911-1995), once remarked that "the only interesting philosophers are those who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness," a similar take on academia, shared by fellow Romanian-French playwright Eugene Ionesco (1909-1994). Like many of Cioran's aphorisms, it is deliberately provocative. T...

One of the greatest ironies of modern Australia is that we compel every adult citizen to vote, yet devote remarkably little effort to ensuring they understand the political system they are voting for. Compulsory voting is often celebrated as the hallmark of Australian democracy, producing consistently high electoral participation. But participation...