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 ...

The Truth About Cancer Substack piece titled "The Gut-Brain Conspiracy" opens with a provocative claim that most of the serotonin circulating in the human body is manufactured in the gut rather than the brain, and that the antidepressants prescribed to millions of people depend on a healthy gut-brain connection even as they quietly undermine it. Th...

East Asian societies present an intriguing cultural contradiction. China, Japan and Korea have historically been highly conscious of ancestry, ethnicity and national identity, while marriage within one's own ethnic group has traditionally been the norm. Yet alongside this strong ethnocentrism has emerged a fascination with particular physical chara...

First woke: The emergence of "wokeness" is not a sudden, inexplicable ideological shift, but rather the predictable outcome of a profound demographic transition within our most vital institutions. When you saturate organisations: law, human resources, academia, and the media, with a critical mass of individuals whose social signalling prioritises e...

In the quiet arithmetic of British justice a pattern has become impossible to ignore. An Ethiopian migrant who arrived by small boat, was housed in an Essex asylum hotel, and within days sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl and an adult woman received twelve months in prison. The white British men who later gathered outside that same hotel t...

The debate about collapsing fertility usually begins with the assumption that something has gone wrong and that, if governments can only identify the malfunction, they can repair it. Houses are too expensive, childcare costs too much, wages are inadequate, employment is insecure, governments tax families excessively or welfare states have weakened ...