Why Donald Trump’s agenda won’t work in Australia
His muscular, nationalistic mission to ‘make America great again’ will excite and horrify many Australians and throw an unpredictable factor into our electoral equation.
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How a boy genius conquered the world
Bill Gates’ memoir Source Code delves deeply into his childhood with an undiagnosed gift, as he seeks to explain (and perhaps understand) his own, unique operating system.
The A to Xi of Trump’s tariffs: what a global trade war might mean
The world is holding its breath to see how far the US President will go in his mission to level a playing field that has been skewed by a deeply mercantilist China
Our values give us cause for optimism amid the terror, fear
Despite all the violence and hatred, I am still optimistic about Australia.
How to divorce without destroying your wealth (according to a lawyer)
Lawyers are usually the only winners in divorce. But a separation that minimises emotional and financial costs is not impossible. Here’s how.
Seething disdain for Israel goes right to the top at unis
Universities are not helplessly beset by mutant radical groups espousing anti-Semitism. They themselves subscribe to that anti-Semitism, albeit without the loudspeakers.
For ABC viewers, reality must come as quite a shock
The Auschwitz fail may be the last straw for our toxic, taxpayer-funded broadcaster and its warped anti-journalism.
Hamas’s kinocide is a unique crime born of unique evil
The images of Naama Levy being dragged into Gaza on October 7 have haunted me. But there is another photo that points to an atrocity we must call for what it is.
The world faces its end game as China takes the lead
In this brave new world, whoever controls AI wins. After this week, as Cold War 2.0 took a nasty turn against the West, it appears China is frighteningly close to doing just that.
What climate spending really costs the world
Extremist climate campaigners and far-left politicians reveal their true colours when they push for ‘de-growth’ to cut emissions. Making people worse off and reversing gains against extreme poverty would be a tragic mistake.
The gorilla about to devour Labor’s green dream
Donald Trump knows the world runs on fossil fuel. If the US President’s command to ‘drill, baby, drill’ is heeded – and it will be –Australia could find itself out in the cold.
Time to say bye-bye to the wokerati’s bullying tactics
Voters have had enough of being told how to think and how to behave and want to reassert more traditional values and attitudes that served them perfectly well.
Five possible solutions to the Gaza problem
Despite everything that has happened since October 7, Hamas remains a powerful institution. Which country would take in this population of two million?
Diversity not on agenda in leftist echo chambers
The fact is there is more genuine political debate on Sky News in Australia and Fox News in the US than there is on the ABC or at the various taxpayer-funded literary festivals in Australia.
Populist revolution may yet save elites from themselves
Progressives have, ironically, regressed so far into extremism that it’s at risk of dying.
Why work is so much better than welfare
Buoyed by her own experiences under the Community Development Program, Malarndirri McCarthy is hoping to return dignity to the workplace.
Albanese strays from the main game of voters’ basic needs
Populist ploys and woke frolics won’t cut it with an electorate under financial stress.
Wake up, Australia! We’re a coin toss away from a mass casualty attack
People are planning it. They are itching to do it. It will finish off Albanese’s leadership as sure as it will harm the innocents among us.
The very real danger of the ‘cashed-up boomer’ stereotype
I’m a widowed, sometimes lonely 80-year-old in the early stages of dementia — and also, apparently, a repository of untapped wealth. Many of my elderly friends are being badly mistreated by their children.
On the road to Damascus: My trip through a ‘liberated’ Syria
The brutal Assad dictatorship is gone but is a new repressive Islamist regime being formed in Syria?
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