Australia's welfare system is under immense strain. With sustained budget deficits for nearly two decades, exploding costs in the NDIS, aged care, and other social protections, and an ageing population driving spending higher as a share of GDP, the system is approaching a breaking point. Restricting access to key welfare payments, such as JobSeeker...

 A new Roy Morgan snap SMS poll has delivered a political shockwave through Canberra. According to the survey, if a federal election were held today Australia would likely face a hung parliament, with the result described as "too close to call." Most striking of all was the primary vote breakdown: One Nation reportedly sitting at 32 percent su...

 For decades Iran prepared for the war it believed was eventually coming. While much of the world focused on aircraft, drones, and surface missile systems, Tehran invested enormous resources into something harder to photograph and far harder to destroy: underground military cities buried beneath mountains and rock. Recent reports surrounding t...

Let's get one thing straight. Australia has always understood something the rest of the world pretends it doesn't: most of us won't win. Most of us won't go viral, get the promotion, marry the glamorous partner, or have our name on anything more permanent than a sticky note. And you know what? That's fine. More than fine. That might actually be the...

For centuries the peoples of the Mediterranean treated olive oil not merely as a food, but almost as a civilisational staple. It flowed through their kitchens, economies, and daily rituals like liquid sunlight. Modern nutritional science is now catching up to what older cultures may have intuitively understood: olive oil is not simply a healthier a...

Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at the University of Birmingham, is one of the most prominent voices in Britain's Empire debate. He has gone so far as to assert that British rule was "far worse" than the Nazis. Andrews represents a broader movement within academia that sees Western colonialism as the defining evil of human history. This...

The tense 30-minute standoff between U.S. Secret Service agents and Chinese security during President Trump's state visit to Beijing this week was a stark reminder of the razor's edge on which high-stakes diplomacy rests. Chinese officials blocked an armed Secret Service agent from entering the Temple of Heaven with his firearm, sparking heated con...

Bettina Arndt's latest argument (link below) taps into a growing sense among many men that modern society increasingly offers them responsibility without respect, expectation without loyalty, and risk without protection. In her broader body of work, and again in this recent Substack piece, she argues that large numbers of ordinary men are quietly w...

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality." So wrote C.S. Lewis, in a line later quoted by Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave (1944). It is one of those observations that becomes more unsettling the longer one thinks about it, because it cuts through the...

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn." Few observations from the ancient world still strike with such quiet force. The line originates with Hippocrates (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) in the opening of the Aphorisms, though most people know it through the later Latin rendering, Ars longa, vita brevis. Chaucer's translation gave it enduring life in E...

 Here is another story linking a U.S. military biolab to viral genomes and potential pandemic groundwork. On May 13, 2026, Modernity News published an article claiming that the reference genome for Andes hantavirus (ANDV), now relevant to the ongoing 2026 outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, was "built" at Fort Detrick's USAMRIID fro...

 Another day, another high-profile Chinese Communist Party operative caught red-handed inside American institutions. This time it's Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California. On May 11, 2026, she resigned her post and agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal foreign agent for the People's Republic of China. The U.S. Department...

You already knew in your bones that something was deeply wrong with the breathless push for AI "progress." Now the people at the top aren't even pretending anymore. At the Milken Institute Global Conference in 2026, the quiet part was said out loud. BlackRock's Larry Fink, Brookfield's Bruce Flatt and billionaire Michael Milken, laid out a vision: ...

 A patient sits across from his doctor, fresh prescription in hand after hearing the words "significant arterial buildup." No mention of why the plaque formed, what triggered the inflammation, or whether the body might actually dismantle some of it under the right conditions. Just "take this statin." It's a story echoed in countless patient ac...

 Space is terrifying. That's the hook of the recent BBC Sky at Night Magazine article, "Vampire stars, supervoids, cannibal galaxies: 29 of the most terrifying things in the Universe." It paints a vivid "terror tour" of the cosmos: black holes that swallow light itself, rogue planets drifting through the void like cosmic orphans, gamma-ray bur...

There was a time in Australia when people could disagree bitterly about politics, religion, unions, immigration, war, or economics, then still share a barbecue, coach the local football team, or help a neighbour repair a fence after a storm. The country was never perfect. There were divisions, injustices, and class tensions. But there remained a br...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down with Tucker Carlson and dropped a bombshell that has reignited one of the most bitter debates in public health. According to RFK Jr., the CDC had its own internal study in the late 1990s showing a 1135% increase in autism risk linked to the hepatitis B vaccine given to newborns. Researchers were reportedly stunned. In...

For decades, American leaders told themselves a comforting story. Engage China, they said. Trade with it. Let its students fill the universities and its factories churn out our consumer goods. Economic freedom would inevitably breed political liberalisation. A rising China, plugged into the global system, would become a "responsible stakeholder." T...

For decades, mainstream feminism presented itself as a universal movement, a fierce defender of women's rights, bodily autonomy, and safety everywhere. "Sisterhood is global," they proclaimed. Yet when mass migration from deeply patriarchal societies collides with those principles in Europe and beyond, most feminists fall strangely quiet. The resul...

It's refreshing when a government finally says the quiet part out loud. This week, the United States under the Trump administration essentially told the United Nations: enough with the "replacement migration" agenda. We're done pretending mass, low-skilled immigration is some inevitable humanitarian necessity. The message from Washington is clear: ...