As Millennials edge into middle age and Gen Z (born ~1997–2012) followed by Alpha (born ~2013 onward) move toward dominance in the workforce, politics, and culture, a nervous question circulates in certain circles: Will Australia hold together, or are we staring at institutional and social collapse under younger generations? The short answer is no ...

The Conversation recently published a piece asking, "What is migration for?" framing it as a profound human desire clashing with national needs, while ultimately portraying managed openness as essential for prosperity, dignity, and liberal democracy. People move, it reminds us; they always have. This is true enough on the surface. Humans have wande...

We are witnessing not isolated flare-ups but the dangerous acceleration of interlocking conflicts that threaten to drag the world into a far broader catastrophe. What began as regional tensions has metastasised into direct confrontations involving Iran, the United States, Israel, and their proxies, with the fragile ceasefires collapsing almost as q...

 We stand at a profound crossroads in the West, one that Alex Klaushofer aptly terms the Digital Dilemma (links below). On one path lies the relentless march toward a technocratic system of surveillance and control: digital IDs, biometric data grabs, algorithmic governance, and the slow erosion of consent under the banners of "safety," "conven...

The latest UK government initiative on media regulation, quietly slipped into public view via the "Watch This Space" Green Paper (published 23 June 2026), represents a chilling escalation in the ongoing assault on open discourse. Framed as a benign effort to promote "trustworthy" news and protect audiences from "harm," it proposes rewiring social m...

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927)is a vast, slow-moving river of a book, seven volumes, thousands of pages, written in long, winding sentences that can feel as endless as the Stuart Highway. To many modern Australians it sounds like the last thing we need: another dense French novel from a century ago. Yet if you let it in, Proust ...

 A French group called Les Natifs (The Natives) invited me to give a speech in Paris on June 3, 2026. However, police broke up the meeting, explaining that judging from my record, I was likely to say things that would "violate the penal code and threaten national cohesion as well as the principles enshrined in The Declaration of the Rights of ...

In today's increasingly demanding workplaces, employers face difficult decisions about balancing performance expectations with their legal obligation to safeguard employee wellbeing. A significant Queensland Supreme Court decision provides an important reminder that performance management, however legitimate in principle, must always be exercised i...

There is a grim symmetry in visiting Berlin today, many say. The city that once stood at the heart of 20th-century catastrophe is again a symbol of looming confrontation. As tensions with Russia escalate and Europe prepares for potential wider conflict, the article "Visiting Berlin Before the Coming War" captures a city living on borrowed time: pro...

Friedrich List, the influential 19th-century German economist and advocate of the National System of Political Economy, provides one of the most compelling intellectual challenges to the modern globalist consensus. Where many contemporary thinkers, including libertarian icons like Murray Rothbard, champion unfettered free trade and the primacy of t...

Jessica Rose's recent piece "Ownership" (link below), cuts to the heart of a profound and under-discussed crisis in the modern West: the slow, systematic erosion of genuine private property rights. We are told we own our homes, our cars, our devices, and even our identities, yet in practice, these claims are increasingly illusory, conditional, and ...

Zineb Riboua's recent essay "The Logic of Third-Worldism" is a sharp diagnosis of a troubling shift on the contemporary Left. What we are seeing is not simply renewed interest in foreign conflicts or economic anxiety finding political expression. It is the resurgence of Third-Worldism as an ideological framework, one that reframes Western societies...

There is a quiet ache many feel when watching old films, not just for the craftsmanship or storytelling, but for the vanished world they depicted. The confident, unapologetic West of early-20th century cinema: men who were decisive, women who were feminine, communities rooted in shared values, and stories that celebrated courage, duty, family, and ...

Walk into almost any gym in the Western world and one assumption goes unquestioned. Every exercise is organised into sets. Three sets of ten. Four sets of eight. Five sets of five. Rest. Repeat. It is so universal that few people stop to ask an obvious question: who decided that this was the natural way for human beings to exercise? At first glance...

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia with Jimmy Wales in 2001, has now been indefinitely banned from editing the site he helped create. The trigger? His public efforts to push for greater "intellectual diversity" and balance on the world's largest encyclopedia. Sanger's ousting is more than an internal Wikipedia spat. It is a meta-political event...

President Trump's recent Executive Order on quantum innovation (and its companion on post-quantum cryptography) has been framed as a necessary push for American competitiveness against China, scientific breakthroughs, and national security. On the surface, it's about building powerful quantum computers, securing data against future threats, and str...

New Zealand whistleblower Barry Young, who faces trial for leaking COVID-19 vaccine data, told The Defender that public trust can be restored only through transparency and accountability. He said the country's COVID-19 inquiry "danced around the issues," failing to seriously examine vaccine safety concerns or mandates. "The worst possible lesson fr...

Recent events in the Strait of Hormuz have once again reminded us how fragile "peace" in the Middle East can be. Iran struck a commercial vessel (the Ever Lovely) with a drone, prompting US retaliatory strikes on Iranian targets. President Trump labelled the Iranian action a "foolish violation" of the fragile ceasefire. While a full-blown wider war...

The rock band the Who nailed it back in 1971: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." Decades later, that lyric feels painfully relevant to Australian politics as the Liberal Party tries to reposition itself against Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Angus Taylor's recent policy push is being sold as a bold conservative reset, but history suggests cau...

Australians were not raised to whisper in our own country. We were not raised to bow our heads before bureaucrats, activist mobs, media bosses, HR departments and nervous corporate cowards who start shaking the moment a few professional outrage merchants make noise online. Look around, though. That is the country being built around us. Colder. Smal...