Australia's native title map expanded again on 14 August 2026, when the Federal Court recognised native title over more than 170,000 hectares of northern Queensland. Chief Justice Debra Mortimer made a consent determination recognising the Western Yalanji People as native title holders over approximately 170,827 hectares of Cape York. The determina...

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has made the right decision in terminating an Australian National University joint venture with a Chinese university linked to China's nuclear weapons establishment. The more disturbing question is why such an intervention was necessary in the first place, and how many other university relationships deserve the same scru...

For years the political consensus treated high net overseas migration as an unchallengeable good. Record intakes after the borders reopened were defended as essential for growth, skills and demographic balance. Public concern about housing shortages, infrastructure strain and social cohesion was routinely dismissed as fringe or worse. That consensu...

The ageing crisis was always the growth lobby's favourite scare story. For years the argument ran like this: the population is getting older, the ratio of workers to retirees is collapsing, and without a constant inflow of younger migrants the budget will buckle under pensions and health costs. High immigration was therefore sold as the responsible...

There are stories that are funny until suddenly they are not. The extraordinary saga of Professor Jason Arday was one of them. Now Arday is dead at only 41 years of age, and whatever amusement could once be extracted from the increasingly incredible story of his academic career has disappeared with him. Arday was found unresponsive at his home in B...

Penny Wong's recent Lowy Institute speech (August 2026) explicitly stated: "Multicultural Australia is the only Australia that has ever existed." She framed calls for a "monoculture" (associated with Pauline Hanson/One Nation) as a "melancholic fantasy" that would turn Australians against each other, make the country "weaker at home and more vulner...

For decades Hollywood has been teaching us to fear the machine. The Terminator gave us Skynet, an artificial intelligence that concludes humanity is the problem and proceeds to exterminate it. The Matrix turned the relationship around: machines have already won and human beings have become biological components of their technological civilisation. ...

During the COVID pandemic, scientists sequenced millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and built detailed "family trees" (phylogenies) showing how the virus mutated, split into variants, and moved around the world. Those trees guided public-health decisions, variant naming (the Pango system), and claims about how the virus evolved. A 2026 study published i...

Australia has fought many wars, but one of the longest has been against an enemy weighing about two kilograms, armed with nothing more formidable than teeth and an extraordinary capacity to reproduce. The rabbit wars may be starting again. Reports from around Australia suggest rabbit populations are increasing substantially. In the South Australian...

Dark chocolate has acquired an almost medicinal reputation. It contains flavanols and other compounds associated with potential cardiovascular benefits, has less sugar than milk chocolate, and is routinely presented as the chocolate you can eat without feeling quite so guilty. Buy organic dark chocolate and surely you have improved the equation eve...

It's a grim read (link below), and Brimelow has been making essentially the same argument for three decades with a consistency that's hard to dismiss. The core of it isn't really controversial once you strip away the rhetoric: immigration is a policy, not weather. The government sets the numbers, the origins, and the skill mix. That's just a factua...

Dutch politician Geert Wilders has issued one of his strongest warnings yet about the demographic transformation of Europe, arguing that mass immigration rather than climate change represents the more fundamental long-term challenge to European civilisation. Writing for Breitbart, Wilders argues that anyone travelling through Western Europe can see...

A cultural war has been declared on J.K. Rowling and Sophie Cunningham. Their offence is defending a proposition that, a generation ago, would scarcely have required explanation: human beings are sexually dimorphic, organised around the two reproductive sexes, male and female, and male puberty creates physical advantages that matter when men and wo...

The major parties still talk as if the problem is messaging or a temporary mood. It is not. Large numbers of Australians have come to despise them, and the reasons are neither mysterious nor unjust. Decades of promises followed by quiet abandonment, of lectures delivered from insulated lives, and of self-interest dressed up as public service have d...

Australian universities have spent decades insisting that they are capable of regulating themselves. Whenever criticism arises, whether concerning foreign interference, declining academic standards, ideological conformity, administrative bloat, treatment of students, research integrity or the extraordinary dependence upon foreign money, the familia...

Most abortions happen early. That is the statistical reality. The majority occur in the first trimester, when the procedure is simpler, the embryo is less developed, and the moral and practical stakes are lower for many people. The harder question sits at the other end of pregnancy: why do some abortions still take place when the pregnancy has reac...

 Anyone expecting Iran's rulers to respond to overwhelming economic pressure by quickly throwing up their hands may be misunderstanding the nature of the regime. Tehran increasingly appears to be preparing for something much less pleasant but potentially much more durable: years of economic hardship, rationing, declining living standards and c...

In late August 2024, Brazil's Supreme Court did something that still looks strange even months later. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a nationwide block of the social media platform X. That alone was dramatic. What followed was stranger: he also went after Virtual Private Networks. Anyone using a VPN to reach the blocked platform faced a daily ...

There are different ways of ruling a population. A government rules through laws, courts, police and institutions. An occupying army rules through force. A terrorist can rule more crudely still: make people afraid to attend church, afraid to farm their land, afraid to travel along a road, afraid that their children will be kidnapped, and afraid tha...

America is not inventing a new story. It is replaying one that Europe has already lived through in accelerated form. What began as controlled immigration and earnest multiculturalism has, over decades, produced parallel communities, rising political influence for Islamic organisations, demands for special accommodations, and growing tension between...