The Hawke-Keating-Howard era is endlessly lauded as the “golden age” of reform in Australia. In no small part, this is because, in a sharp break with the past, our country – on a bipartisan basis...
What should be the most important issue of the 2025 federal election in Australia? Nuclear power? Whacking woke? The gender wars? Taxes and costs of living? Some new or existing foreign conflict...
Every morning, I wake up and scan hopefully the opinion pages of The Australian for any sign of a sympathetic or proper understanding of the ‘new right’ – the dynamic intellectual movement that...
The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. What is clear is that the political right and left in this country have very different perspectives...
Australian centre-right politicians are very fond of quoting Winston Churchill. One of the last pieces of advice that great wartime leader gave before finally stepping down was that: ‘We must...
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers flew back from Beijing last weekend keen to emphasise that our trade relationship with China has been, to use the overused buzzword of this government,...
Since the publication of John Howard’s "The Menzies Era" almost a decade ago, there has been an unexpected revival of interest in Australia’s longest-serving prime minister. Copious podcasts,...
The Albanese government’s Future Built in Australia plan, if nothing else, has certainly caused an unexpected outbreak of bipartisanship among many of our commentariat. Erstwhile political foes...
Francesco di Petracco, better known as ‘Petrarch’, is rightly recognised as an artistic genius, the greatest scholar of his age, and one of the fathers of the Italian Renaissance. Both he and his...