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...
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,...
Understanding National Conservatism The Economist, the British magazine well-known for its particular metropolitan liberal worldview, had a pearl-clutching cover piece last week where it bemoaned...
Perhaps no other city makes one recall as fondly the spirit of the 1980s in Australia as Fremantle. It was from here, famously, that our successful America’s Cup challenge was launched. Even...