The constitutional importance of White Australia Party Inc & Anor v Commonwealth of Australia & Anor does not depend upon anyone approving of the White Australia Party, its leadership or its policies. Constitutional restraints upon government power matter most when they are invoked by people whose opinions are unpopular, offensive or politi...

The spectacle of a feminist mob rallying in support of a confessed child murderer Lindsay Clancy, who brutally strangled her three children, claiming postpartum psychosis, represents the ultimate, grotesque culmination of a feminist political ideology that has completely severed itself from the moorings of objective morality and individual accounta...

For decades, governments treated the deep ocean as though it were the planet's ultimate rubbish dump. If something was dangerous enough that nobody wanted it on land, there was always another possibility: put it into a steel drum, mix it with concrete or bitumen, take it hundreds of kilometres offshore and throw it overboard into several kilometres...

There is something almost comical about the linguistic journey that progressive politics has taken. Feminism once objected, quite reasonably, to reducing women to their reproductive functions. A woman was not merely a womb, a baby-making machine or an appendage of her reproductive anatomy. Yet after several decades of increasingly elaborate gender ...

The rule of law did not collapse in a single dramatic moment. It thinned over decades, the mortar between its stones quietly leaching away while the facade still photographed well. Statutes stayed on the books. Courts kept their robes and rituals. Agencies continued issuing press releases about equal justice. What changed was the relationship betwe...

In principle the case for a progressive conservative school rally is coherent and even compelling. After Left-wing students walked out of classrooms across Australia to denounce Pauline Hanson and One Nation with chants that crossed into calls for harm, the imbalance became impossible to ignore. A politicised education system had already spent year...

Australia has no shortage of serious research problems. We have an ageing population, chronic disease, declining productivity, an energy system undergoing an extraordinarily expensive transformation, agricultural challenges, housing shortages, cybersecurity threats and a host of scientific and technological problems where genuinely new knowledge mi...

A trillion is one of those numbers so large that most people struggle to picture it. Put another way, Australia now owes one thousand billion dollars. Years ago, when Barnaby Joyce tried to warn us where this was heading, Canberra laughed at him. Joyce became the Coalition's Shadow Finance spokesman in December 2009, during the first Rudd governmen...

You do not have to like Pauline Hanson to understand why she is prospering. You do not have to agree with all her policies, admire her political style or believe that One Nation is ready to govern Australia. You merely have to compare Hanson with the political class that has governed the country for the past several decades. One quality stands out:...

Trump's strategy billed as an Economic D-Day, represents a dramatic pivot toward total financial coercion, moving beyond standard trade bans to threaten global markets with secondary isolation. By targeting every financial node that keeps Tehran afloat, from informal exchange houses and currency swap lines to third-party shipping registries and reg...

The narrative of North-western European development is a profound paradox, a testament to the dual-edged nature of human psychological evolution. The very traits that fostered the rise of modernity: the expansion of trust beyond the immediate kin group, the rigorous adherence to egalitarian norms, and the institutionalisation of fair play, are now ...

Australia's public institutions have settled into a remarkable uniformity of outlook that few on the conservative side of politics seem prepared to confront directly. From university campuses and teacher-training facilities, through the public service, legacy media, the arts establishment and significant parts of the legal and bureaucratic apparatu...

We've all had the thought. You turn on the kitchen tap, take a sip, and immediately wonder if the council has quietly connected the house to the local aquatic centre. That familiar chlorine tang has launched a thousand water-cooler conversations and sold an embarrassing number of plastic bottles. So let's settle it properly: in Australia, is bottle...

The numbers arrive with the quiet finality of a ledger that no longer balances. Under the Albanese government, across seventeen quarters since the 2022 election, average rents have climbed 22.4 percent while wages have risen only 16.4 percent. The gap is not marginal. It is the measurable distance between a household that can still make rent and on...

 More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher, Diogenes (413/403? – 324/321? BC) supposedly walked through Athens in broad daylight carrying a lantern, explaining that he was searching for an honest man. The story survives because the joke never becomes obsolete. Every civilisation believes itself more sophisticated than its ...

My father had a simple piece of advice that has stayed with me throughout my life: "Always look after your teeth and feet." There was considerable wisdom packed into those few words. Lose the health of your teeth and eating becomes difficult; lose the health of your feet and much of your independence can disappear with them. The importance of the l...

The fantasy that modern Western progressive ideology could coexist with, let alone flourish under, a demographic shift toward a vast Islamic majority is a profound exercise in cognitive dissonance. The Left operates under the delusion that their embrace of universalism, secularism, and identity politics creates a universal language of tolerance tha...

 The COVID-19 lockdowns were among the most extraordinary exercises of state power imposed upon democratic populations in modern peacetime. Governments closed businesses, restricted movement, prohibited gatherings, disrupted education, separated families and, in some jurisdictions, imposed curfews and limits on how far citizens could travel fr...

       Australia once refused to ban communists. Now it uses communist legal doctrine to ban nationalists. The new "hate group" law is not about banning violent organisations.1 Violence, terrorism and incitement are already covered by Australia's anti-terrorism laws.2 What the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Crimina...

There is something wonderfully humbling about static electricity. Children discover it by rubbing balloons on their hair. Anyone who has walked across carpet on a dry day has experienced it through the unpleasant spark that jumps from a fingertip to a metal object. The ancient Greeks knew that rubbed amber could attract small objects, and our word ...