An Australasian sceptical note on the effectiveness of Covid vaccines
According to Our World in Data (accessed on 1 June 2025), New Zealand achieved 75 per cent coverage of the…
The Pandemic Accords: a solution in search of a problem
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accomplished important work in its relatively long lifespan for an international organisation, including the…
An optimist’s guide to the Aussie election
Gathering rosebuds of consolation
Making sense of Trump’s tariffs
A coherent strategy underpins them
Why war trumps peace
The logic of conflict
Judges to rule the world?
High time for executive pushback against judicial overreach
Trump, tariffs & tough love
Dutton must engage in the battle of ideas
Remembering Cyclone Alfred
Climate alarmism and tropical cyclones
End the foreign aid scam
Dismantling USAID is the right place to start
A diplomatic dust-up for the ages
With President Donald Trump’s re-election and his well-known views, Europe and Ukraine faced an in-tray from hell. Yet, their shock…
Trump bells the cat on Ukraine
Hard choices require a dose of tough love
Power speaking truth to irrelevance
In his historic speech at the Munich Security Conference, JD Vance told European leaders not to shut down opinions with…
Rule of law corrupted
Now it’s rule by lawyers and it imperils democracy
Gaslighting
Censorship exists to protect bad ideas from public scrutiny. Because it is effectively a toxic four-letter notion, governments in thrall…
From Israel to the sea, Gaza will be free
The audacity of US power
Snatching defeat
Israel is both the biggest winner and the biggest loser
Importing the third world
The cost of accepting immigrants who don’t share our values is too high
Rape of the innocents
Only a national inquiry can address the scale of the cover up
Sun sets on age of endarkenment
The West wakes up
The Great Disruptor
Trump’s war on woke
Trigger warning: common sense outbreak at UN!
United Nations calls out trans threat to women’s sports
The Latino wave
How history was made and Trump was carried to victory
Covid’s abuse of power
The inquiry is as misinformed as the experts were
Covid Inquiry was not fit for purpose
The 868-page report of the official inquiry into Australia’s Covid-19 response, like the inquiry itself, is not fit for purpose.…
Hamas’s agents of chaos
The antisemitism of students is not accidental
