by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WHILE Labor’s Federal Budget has copped flak from investors and potential property buyers – including young people it’s supposed to help – it may have created a new defence loophole in legal cases. Anyone facing charges of perjury…
by DAVID FLINT – LAST Thursday night, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor delivered the Opposition’s Budget Reply, focusing on what he termed “generational tax reform” and significant structural changes to migration and housing. There is significant overlap between Angus Taylor’s 2026 Budget Reply…
by ROGER CROOK – PEAK climate scientists have admitted they were wrong about extreme weather scenarios, referring to their own modelling as “implausible”. While cleaning up my email folder the other day I came across an extraordinary article on Substack by Roger…
by PAUL COLLITS – TREASURER Jim Charmless shameless Budget makes anything Paul Keating ever did look like a stroll in the park. Business analyst Robert Gottliebsen calls his latest Budget the greatest attack on wealth this country has ever seen. In one…
by FRED PAWLE – CONSERVATIVES didn’t start the culture wars, but we will end them – with Western erudition and eloquence, and not with Leftist-style slogans and abuse. My writings have been relatively scant lately. I have an excuse. We need to…
by DAVID FLINT – THE political establishment is in a state of shock. When Sky News Australia took the unprecedented step of calling the Farrer by-election for One Nation at an extraordinarily early hour, it wasn’t just calling a seat; it was…
by MARK WHITE – LAST Saturday’s Farrer by-election was akin to an extinction level political event, especially when you put all the facts together. I’m still processing what happened on the weekend, with One Nation securing the seat with a primary vote…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS a persistent and lazy myth that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is a Party of protest without policy. For many years, while the UniParty of Labor and the Liberals (in their decline after the Howard and Abbott…
by KEVIN DONNELLY – SINCE first being established in 1997 by Pauline Hanson, One Nation has been described as a fringe Party with little, if any, political clout. This is no longer the case. According to a January 2026 Newspoll commissioned by…
by PAUL COLLITS – JOHN Lennon was the socialist Beatle, as we know. George Harrison? Not so much. Famously, George wrote a song called Taxman. The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory: The sheer size of the policy corruption and the exposure of Australian…
