Nick Cater

Nick Cater is senior fellow of the Menzies Research Centre and a columnist with The Australian. He is a former editor of The Weekend Australian and a former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He is author of The Lucky Culture published by Harper Collins.

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***Exclusive ***** Premier Steven Miles and the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Gladstone. Pic Annette Dew

Labor’s ‘Future Made in Australia’ will end in tears

The PM’s attack on one of the country’s finest public policy thinkers offers little hope the Future Made in Australia Act might one day be seen as more than a slogan.

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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - FEBRUARY 04: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to media as she promotes the COVID-19 booster vaccine at the new vaccination centre at the Cloud on February 04, 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealanders can receive a booster shot three months after their second vaccine dose rather than wait four months, as the government tries to stay ahead of the Omnicron strain. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

Ardern’s zero Covid madness comes home to roost

Ardern’s blunders mean the New Zealand economy will be burdened with the long fiscal tail of the 2020-2022 pandemic for years, if not decades, to come.

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28 March 2024, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, MP Chris Bowen and MP Penny Sharpe visited the Hunter Valley to announce a $1 billion program that aims to boost the number of solar panels made in Australia. Liddell Power Station near Muswellbrook will be developed as a solar manufacturing hub. Photo: PMO / Supplied

Renewables’ welfare dependence leaves us in China’s shadow

Renewable energy is welfare-dependent and weather-dependent. It suffers from a condition a psychologist might recognise as Dependent Personality Disorder: a pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. MARCH 20, 2024: Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Tassie’s rich power exports damned by hydro hypocrites

Reducing Tasmanian retail power prices relative to other states would help an incoming government attract new investment, particularly in the power-hungry digital economy.

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26/06/2016: Hundreds of people attended a protest in Double Bay calling for more action on climate change, organised by GetUp!, Greenpeace and NSW Nature Conservation Council. Former Liberal party leader John Hewson spoke with CSIRO climate scientist Dr Michael Borgas, Airlie Beach dive instructor Tony Fontes and medical doctor Kate Charlesworth, an expert in climate health impacts. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

How eco-anxiety preachers prey on ‘generation unwell’

It is time to stand up to the wellness gurus and therapists responsible for the most unwell generation in recorded history.

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St Mary's Cathedral SydneySunday 3rd January 2021. Rain tears on Saint Mary of the Cross.Looking for church goer's wearing masks - it's now mandatory for all inside venues. PictureÃs Darren Leigh Roberts

Christian schools on the nose amid PC’s green faith

For the sake of the Productivity Commission’s reputation, the commissioners should find the courage to send its philanthropy report back to its authors and ask them to start again.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos MARCH 02, 2024 : Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Labor candidate Jodie Belyea speak to the media at Derinya Primary School in Frankston South, on polling day for the Federal seat of Dunkley. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Ian Currie

Climate policy puts brake on Albanese’s Dunkley joy

Albanese will claim the Dunkley win was an endorsement of his government. Yet Labor MPs in marginal seats have been rattled.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 14, 2024: Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Nuclear, gas fuel Dutton’s tilt at green madness

So much for Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s claim that the opposition is using nuclear power as a culture-war distraction. His argument collapses at the first brush with reality.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 8, 2024: Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Unaffordable green dream blacked out by reality

One hates to be the bearer of bad news to the Tesla drivers of Mosman, but around 80 per cent of your electricity on Saturday night was produced from black coal.

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Adam Bandt is the new leader of the Australian Greens, elected unopposed after Richard Di Natale resigned.Senator Larissa Waters has been appointed Senate leader and co-deputy, while Nick McKim was voted as deputy Senate leader and co-deputy after the 10-member Greens party room met to elect a new leadership team this morning. Senator Rachel Siewert, Party Whip, joined the trio at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Right-to-disconnect debacle will only fuel anti-work culture

The right to disconnect hinges on the seductive narrative of restoring the work-life balance supposedly disrupted by the pressure of modern life.

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