Inspired by a recent piece from Leith van Onselen over at Macrobusiness.com.au, let's unpack why this setup is less "land of opportunity" and more "land of missed opportunities." We're talking about a policy that's supposed to bring in top talent but ends up importing underemployment, low wages, and a side of economic drag. Let's kick off with the ...

Here in an era where convenience is king and security is the perpetual rallying cry, governments and tech giants are pushing digital identity systems as the ultimate solution to modern woes. From seamless logins to fraud-proof transactions, digital IDs promise a frictionless world. But peel back the glossy veneer, and a darker picture emerges: a su...

In the dim glow of 2025's cultural twilight, where facts flicker like faulty fluorescents and feelings reign supreme, Helen Andrews drops a bombshell in Compact: "The Great Feminization." It's not a screed against sisterhood; it's a autopsy of how demographic drifts, women surging into power perches, have tilted the West toward empathy's embrace, a...

Picture this: You're an 18-year-old lad in suburban Sydney or regional Rockhampton, fresh out of Year 12, staring down a fork in the road. Left: University, four years of lectures, late-night cramming, and a HECS debt that balloons like a bad Tinder date. Right: A trade apprenticeship, hands-on work, earning from day one, and a toolkit that pays di...

The mantra "demographics are destiny" has long haunted American conservatives, evoking visions of a browning nation inexorably tilting Leftward. Census projections paint a stark canvas: By 2045, non-Hispanic whites dip below 50%, yielding a "majority-minority" mosaic where Hispanics surge to 24%, Asians to 14%, and Blacks hold at 13%, a total popul...

Lurking in the shadow of last year's seismic elections, Labour's landslide in the UK and Trump's MAGA redux in the U.S., a fresh NatCen report drops a bombshell: British voters, across the aisle, are far more attuned to the perceived perils of mass immigration than their American counterparts. Titled UK and US Attitudes: Two Sides of the Same Coin?...

On November 3, 2025, Nigel Farage stood before a packed Banking Hall in the City of London, not as the Brexit firebrand of old, but as a would-be statesman charting a course through economic storm clouds. In his most substantive economic address yet, the Reform UK leader jettisoned flashy tax-cut promises, pivoting to a stark diagnosis: Britain's "...

The Big Apple just slit its own throat and elected the blade. Zohran Kwame Mamdani, 34-year-old DSA poster boy, TikTok revolutionary, and now the first openly socialist mayor in NYC history, didn't win an election; he executed a hostile takeover of a $110 billion municipal corporation already on life support. Two million voters, doped on rent-freez...

Picture this: London's glittering skyline, once a magnet for moguls and millionaires, now a ghost town for the gilded elite. Private jets hum toward Dubai, Milan rentals skyrocket, and Ryanair's own Michael O'Leary, never one to mince words, cackles as he declares the UK "doomed" under Labour's reign. "Rich people are fleeing... trying to find low-...

Cast in the shadow of yet another senseless knife rampage, this time on a Doncaster-to-London train, where Anthony Williams allegedly stabbed 11 people, Britain is once again grappling with a grim pattern. The suspect, a man of African-Caribbean descent with a history of mental health issues, echoes a chilling series of tragedies: unhinged individu...

Capitalism isn't just an economic system, it's a dynamo of human progress, turning scarcity into abundance with a relentless focus on efficiency, choice, and reward. J.H. Adler's Amerika.org defence nails it: From Costco's cornucopia of affordable goods to life-saving medical tech once reserved for tycoons, capitalism delivers where socialism stumb...

The alarm goes off at 6:00 a.m. in a quiet terraced house in Melbourne. Margaret, 68, swings her legs over the bed, slips on her worn-in trainers, and heads out before the kettle boils. No fanfare, no gym membership, just a 40-minute loop past the park, the newsagent, and the river. She's been doing it for six years now, ever since her husband's de...

Leading in the quest for net zero, solar panels have been hailed as the humble hero, affordable, abundant, and oh-so-green. But in 2025's UK, that dream is flickering out, quite literally. A bombshell QBE report reveals fire services tackling a solar blaze every two days in 2024, 171 incidents, up 60% from 107 in 2022, outpacing installations (1.3 ...

We've traded faith for ideology and truth for tolerance, now our nation is drifting, and only a return to our Christian roots can save it. Australia is in the midst of a massive identity crisis. Let me explain. We are a country founded on the Christian faith and on Western culture. Our founding document leads with these words: 'Humbly relying on th...

The man who suggested Communist China annex Australia goes by the online name of DaiWW, and he's not some lone nutjob. He's a loud voice in a growing swarm of Chinese expansionists who genuinely believe that our sunburnt country belongs under Beijing's boot. He posted that we're a 'cost-effective acquisition.' That we're morally illegitimate. That ...

For a nation grappling with skyrocketing rents, bidding wars for modest homes, and a generation locked out of the property market, few voices cut through the policy spin quite like Alan Kohler's. The veteran ABC finance journalist, known for his incisive breakdowns of economic trends, has long argued that Australia's "world-beating" population grow...

Here in an era where information flows easily and tasks are automated at the tap of a screen, the human mind should be thriving, or so the tech utopians promised. Instead, a landmark study published in Neurology reveals a sobering reality: self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults has surged 40% over the past decade, climbing from 5.3% i...

Satellite technology is advancing at breakneck speed, with launch costs plummeting from tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram in the early 2000s to under $1,000 today, thanks to reusable rockets like SpaceX's Falcon 9. Space, once the exclusive playground of superpowers, is now accessible to private companies, startups, and even non-state actor...

"First they came for the dairy cows, and I did not speak out…" You know the thing. Danish biotech firm DMS recently developed a product called Bovaer — which is also approved for use in the United States, incidentally — designed to inhibit the enzyme that produces methane as a byproduct of the vegetation that cows consume, the theory being that pre...

Imagine a missile that doesn't just scream across the sky at over 3,800 mph (Mach 5), it adapts mid-flight, tucking in retractable wings for blistering speed, then unfurling them to twist, dive, and evade like a living predator. That's the promise of China's latest hypersonic prototype, unveiled in a peer-reviewed paper by Professor Wang Peng's tea...