The pink hats once signalled a simple demand: listen to women. In the years after 2017 they became the visual shorthand for a politics that treated female testimony as presumptively true and male accounts as presumptively suspect. #BelieveAllWomen was never a careful evidentiary rule. It was a tribal slogan. Its logical end point is visible n...

 The most successful criminal enterprises in the modern West do not operate in the shadows of the underworld. They operate in the open, inside the programs that governments themselves created and then failed to police. Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, disability systems, and a thicket of related benefits have become the preferred ex...

Federal vaccine recommendations in Australia and across the West should operate with a clear presumption in favour of individual autonomy, informed consent, and religious freedom. This is not a rejection of vaccines as medical tools. It is a rejection of the idea that the state, or the expert committees that advise it, holds the final authority ove...

A report from the exciting migrant enriched land of Ceuta, educates us narrow-minded Westerners about cultural differences, and how "diversity is our strength": "Volunteer caregivers in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta report that cat colonies are vanishing, dead animals are turning up cut apart, and birds such as pigeons and seagulls are...

 In the grand tradition of progressive governance, the United Kingdom has once again demonstrated its unparalleled commitment to cultural enrichment by publishing a series of helpful posters and pamphlets aimed at newly arrived asylum seekers. These materials, distributed with the quiet efficiency of a well-oiled bureaucracy, gently inform ill...

Food shortages rarely begin with empty supermarket shelves. They begin months earlier, in fields that receive too little rain, farmers who cannot afford enough fertiliser, ships that cannot obtain insurance, crops planted on fewer acres and governments responding to rising prices by protecting their own supplies. By the time consumers notice that b...

Donald Trump has just won an important battle in his campaign to tighten the rules surrounding mail-in voting before the November 2026 midterm elections. By a 6–3 vote, the United States Supreme Court lifted an injunction that had prevented the administration from implementing important parts of Trump's election-integrity executive order. The decis...

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...