First, the facts. Rushy Lagoon is real, despite the name. It is Tasmania's largest single farm, roughly 21,745 hectares of northern Tasmanian country that for generations ran beef, dairy and sheep. It has irrigation infrastructure and a history of substantial milk and livestock production. In July 2026 the Federal Treasurer approved its sale, for m...

Something remarkable is happening here in Victoria. The party that the political class spent decades treating as a punchline is now being spoken of, in panicked tones inside Labor's own ranks, as a potential government-in-waiting. One Nation on 27 per cent. Up to 34 seats on a good day. The possibility that Pauline Hanson's party could become the l...

 The Economist recently posed an intriguing question: should we be afraid of Elon Musk? At first glance the answer seems obvious. Musk is not a dictator. He commands no army. He was elected by no nation. He is an entrepreneur who builds electric cars, rockets, satellites, artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces. So why has he bec...

There is a particular kind of institutional capture that does not announce itself with crude slogans. It arrives wearing the white coat of science, speaking the language of consensus, and carrying the authority of reports that judges are invited to treat as settled fact. That is the climate litigation complex: a self-reinforcing network of activist...

Donald Trump's latest financial disclosures have attracted enormous attention, with reports suggesting that he earned at least US$2.2 billion during his first year back in the White House through a combination of property, licensing, investments and newer ventures such as cryptocurrency. If those figures are substantially correct, they represent a ...

 Roger Scruton's conservatism begins from a simple observation about human beings: we are not disembodied wills or utility-maximising atoms, but creatures formed by place, memory, inheritance, and the dense web of obligations that arise unbidden. We belong before we choose. The good society is not a design imposed by rational planners but an i...

Victor Davis Hanson recently asked a blunt question of the Democratic Socialists of America and their fellow travellers: do they rank the United States as morally worse than Mao Zedong's body count of roughly seventy million? The Chinese Communist Party remains in unbroken power from Mao to Xi. Its current surveillance state, re-education camps, an...

When euthanasia was first promoted to Western societies, its advocates promised strict limits, compassionate intentions, and robust safeguards. We were assured that only a tiny number of terminally ill patients, enduring unbearable suffering and making fully informed voluntary decisions, would ever qualify. Critics who warned of a slippery slope we...

A recent YouGov poll for a lobbying firm has delivered a result that should surprise no one who has paid attention to the hard Left for the past sixty years. Among supporters of Britain's Green Party, the United States and Israel rank as greater threats to the United Kingdom's national interests than China. Six in ten Green voters named America; ro...

 "The British police have gone from being highly respected to being an almost universal object of contempt, despised by the habitual criminal and the most scrupulously law-abiding person alike. They are menacing to the innocent and impotent against the guilty; and, as more people with academic qualifications have entered the force, so it has l...

In the final weeks of the Biden administration, senior advisors drafted a White House memo that laid out a clear strategy: expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to cover more than three million noncitizens. The document, later obtained by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) and reported by Fox News, was not a routine policy discussion. It was a calculated ...

Socialist millionaire, then-Beatle, John Lennon, said it plainly in a June 1968 interview: the people running things are not simply cynical or corrupt. They are madmen pursuing mad ends. He added that he had sensed it since adolescence, and that expressing the observation risked being labelled insane himself. That remains one of the clearer things ...

 This line, frequently attributed to Henry Kissinger, has circulated for decades in discussions of power, resources, and geopolitics. Whether he actually said the precise words remains disputed: his office has denied it, though contemporary reporting from the 1970s attributed similar views to him through aides. The exact provenance matters les...

Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world has lived under one of history's most remarkable strategic arrangements. Nuclear weapons have existed for more than eighty years, yet not a single nation has used one in warfare since the Second World War. During those decades humanity has fought countless conventional wars, endured proxy conflicts, t...

That Substack essay from The Truth About Cancer crew lays out an argument that's become impossible to dismiss now that the official narrative has collapsed under its own weight. The core thesis is straightforward: the COVID mRNA shots were never traditional vaccines, they were gene therapy products deployed at planetary scale, and the entire operat...

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...