Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was rightly criticised after his appearance on a comedy podcast in which he played a crude "shag, marry, date" game involving Kylie Minogue. Following public backlash, he issued an unequivocal apology, with critics arguing that his remarks were unbecoming of the office of Prime Minister and disrespectful to women. Ye...
[Bettina Arndt's latest Substack essay is a mixture of established fact, documented legal controversies, and strongly argued opinion. While some of her interpretations will be contested, many of the events she discusses are matters of public record. Her broader argument is that contemporary media and legal institutions often apply markedly differen...
A quiet but deeply concerning development slipped out of the UK Civil Service this week. According to reports, senior officials and insiders have been advancing ideas that would effectively make the country harder to govern by elected politicians. This is not some fringe proposal; it reflects a growing mindset within the permanent bureaucracy that ...
After years studying the medical industry, one pattern stands out more clearly than any other to me: ethical principles bend predictably toward whatever generates revenue. The industry's public image, altruistic healers guided by Hippocratic ideals, often clashes with its behaviour. Seemingly irreconcilable positions suddenly make sense once you vi...
In the 4th century BC, Aristotle wrote with clinical precision in his Politics: "Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide." For centuries this was dismissed as ancient sexism. Today, cutting-edge cellular researc...
The modern liberal-democratic state claims a monopoly on legitimate violence and a duty to protect its citizens, territory, and way of life. Yet across the West, from Europe to North America to Australia, it presides over policies that accelerate the demographic and cultural replacement of its historic populations. Is this competence, or something ...
Angus Taylor, the Liberal Opposition Leader, has delivered a pointed attack on Pauline Hanson's One Nation, framing its policies as a reckless plan to "fix" Australia by "blowing it up." In commentary and speeches, Taylor warns of trillion-dollar budget black holes, surging inflation, higher interest rates, and an "eternity of pain" for households ...
Western Australia's Premier Roger Cook has joined a growing chorus of politicians warning about an "increasingly hostile environment" for public figures, largely blaming social media for amplifying abuse, threats, and intimidation. In the wake of reported death threats and online campaigns, Cook is not wrong to highlight the problem. Credible...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, that bastion of multicultural relativism and taxpayer-funded progressive orthodoxy, has outdone itself with a recent piece claiming climate change is now a "major driver" of child marriages across Asia and the Pacific. According to the July 10, 2026, ABC report, the growing intensity of natural disasters, am...
In the classic James Bond films, the villains were never subtle. They were megalomaniacal billionaires and shadowy technocrats who operated from luxurious lairs, spoke in calm, condescending tones, and pursued grandiose plans for global domination. They didn't want mere wealth, they wanted control. They saw ordinary people as pawns, nations a...
Sweden has become the clearest case study of what Karl-Olov Arnstberg diagnoses in his book The Swedish Syndrome: How Elites Commit National Self-Destruction as an "identity-based social psychosis" or "cultural self-harm." A once highly homogeneous nation has been transformed through elite-driven multiculturalism into a society with dramatically hi...
Caitlin Johnstone argues that the cure for despair lies in recovering a sense of awe and wonder. There is much truth in that. A person absorbed by the beauty of a sunset, the immensity of the stars or the intricacy of a flower often finds their anxieties temporarily recede. Wonder reminds us that reality is larger than our immediate troubles. Yet a...
Over the last several years I have been posting nonstop on X about the same nightmares we've been living through…the COVID psyop, the experimental mRNA shots, the mandates that destroyed lives, the injuries, the excess deaths, and the relentless propaganda machine that tried to silence anyone who noticed the bodies piling up. I have watched it all ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operates with cold strategic realism. It is not a socialist utopia but a Han-centric, authoritarian superpower pursuing national rejuvenation, technological supremacy, and regional dominance. Yet it often treats segments of the American and broader Western Left, particularly those pushing radical identity politics,...
The Ukraine war has repeatedly overturned assumptions about modern warfare. Tanks worth millions of dollars have been destroyed by drones costing only hundreds. Expensive electronic warfare systems have been outwitted by simple fibre-optic cables. Now comes another surprise: one of the latest countermeasures against AI-guided drones may be nothing ...
The news from the New York Post is grim but familiar: Iran claims to have closed the Strait of Hormuz after firing on a container ship, issuing fresh warnings of severe retaliation. Once again, the narrow chokepoint through which roughly 20-30% of global seaborne oil passes sits at the centre of escalation. Tanker traffic, insurance rates, and oil ...
One of the most surprising doctrines in Australian property law is adverse possession, sometimes referred to in popular language as "squatters' rights." To many people it appears almost unbelievable. How, they ask, can someone lose ownership of land simply because another person has occupied it for many years? Surely a registered title should be ab...
The doctrine of adverse possession, introduced in part 1, raises a question far deeper than boundary fences and limitation periods. It asks what property actually is. Does ownership arise because a government records your name on a certificate of title? Or does it arise because you possess, maintain, improve and productively use the land? These two...
A recent report from The Vigilant Fox has reignited controversy in the US over the hidden origins of flavour enhancers in everyday processed foods, raising uncomfortable questions about whether US consumers are unknowingly complicit in research derived from aborted foetal tissue. Some flavour compounds developed through this type of research have b...
The European Union has once again demonstrated its remarkable ability to bypass democratic resistance in pursuit of greater control over its citizens' private communications. In a recent episode that should alarm anyone concerned with civil liberties, the European Parliament effectively imposed an extension of the bloc's mass electronic surveillanc...
