Australia once sold itself to the world as a destination for serious study and eventual contribution. Over the past three decades that offer has been inverted. International education has become a high-volume migration pipeline dressed in the language of export earnings, and the country has absorbed the downstream costs while universities and migra...

Labor has conceded the obvious: the post-border-reopening surge in net overseas migration created a mess. Housing shortages worsened, rents rose sharply in the major cities, infrastructure lagged, and public services felt the strain. The government responded with tighter student-visa settings, higher application fees, integrity measures against non...

The pandemic elevated a particular kind of expert into a position of near-unquestioned authority. Credentialled voices insisted that the science was settled, that trade-offs did not exist or could be ignored, and that dissent was not merely mistaken but morally dangerous. Years later the record looks different. Anthony Fauci's repeated invocation o...

A forthcoming book by a former Pfizer toxicologist is set to reopen one of the most contested chapters of the pandemic. The Vaccine Mafia: Pfizer's Former Chief Toxicologist Proves How Toxic Substances Were Unlawfully Sold to Us as a Solution for Covid-19, by Dr. Helmut Sterz, is scheduled for release around late August 2026. Sterz spent decades in...

Labor is not building a stronger Australia. It is dismantling the social fabric that made the country workable, and many of its activists and politicians appear to enjoy the process. Legitimate government, as the classical liberal tradition understood it, rests on a simple bargain. Citizens surrender some natural freedoms in exchange for the protec...

Jon Bernthal has made a successful career out of portraying violent men. As Frank Castle in The Punisher, he has spent considerable screen time demonstrating what happens when aggression, physical power and determination are combined in one formidable package. One might therefore have expected him to appreciate an elementary proposition about risk:...

Perhaps World War III will not begin with a declaration of war. There may be no single morning on which humanity wakes to newspaper headlines announcing that the Third World War officially commenced at midnight. The more disturbing possibility is that historians looking backwards will eventually identify a period like the present and conclude that ...

The British Medical Journal has published an opinion piece that treats criticism of Anthony Fauci as an attack on science and public health themselves. Authors Gavin Yamey and Boghuma Titanji argue that a recent Senate hearing,where Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than a hundred times, will erode trust in vaccines, chill international resear...

There is something inadequate about describing the great authoritarian catastrophes of history entirely in terms of politics. We speak of ideologies, institutions, economic conditions, class conflicts and geopolitical circumstances, all of which certainly matter. Yet when we look closely at the people who rise to the top of particularly brutal syst...

"Intelligence officials have warned that the New IRA is plotting a campaign of violence to force migrants out of Ireland. The Mail has the story: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16038861/New-IRA-terrorists-plan-drive-migrants-Ireland-campaign-violence.html The plan by the New IRA – the successor organisation to the Real IRA – comes in the wa...

 Fertility is more than another government statistic. It tells us whether a civilisation still believes in its own future. It tells us whether people have the confidence, money, health and stability to raise the next generation. When the number keeps falling, year after year, something has gone badly wrong. Usually several things have. The con...

Even if we grant, for the sake of argument, that global net zero is desirable in principle, there remains an increasingly uncomfortable question: is it actually going to happen? The latest global energy figures make that question difficult to avoid. As Macrobusiness notes, citing the 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, global consumption of oi...

Of all the political blunders Anthony Albanese might reasonably have expected to confront as Prime Minister, explaining whether he made a joke about the breasts of Japan's first female prime minister surely cannot have ranked highly on the list. Yet here we are. Anthony Albanese is facing renewed criticism over comments made during a podcast appear...

 Arizona State University, one of the largest public universities in the country, offers a revealing snapshot of priorities in its fall 2026 course catalogue. Students can choose from eight classes with witchcraft, magic, or the occult in the title. Christianity receives exactly one. That disparity is not a minor scheduling quirk. It is a sign...

Beneath the usual headlines about unemployment rates, interest rates and monthly payroll numbers, something potentially much more important has been happening in the American labour market. After years in which employment growth among the foreign-born population frequently overshadowed employment growth among native-born Americans, the pattern has ...

The latest Newspoll has delivered the verdict Australians have been muttering into their petrol receipts for months: Labor's primary vote has slumped to 29 per cent. That is the lowest level since June 2013, when Julia Gillard was still clinging to the Lodge and the party was about to perform one of its more memorable acts of political self-harm. A...

There is an old warning that those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind: Hosea 8:7. It is both a prediction of cosmic justice as well as a description of strategic cause and effect. Actions that ignore constraints, timelines, and second-order consequences tend to produce results larger, more violent, and less controllable than the original int...

For most people, nuclear strategy still evokes the stark logic of the Cold War. The United States and Soviet Union possessed enormous arsenals capable of destroying one another, and precisely because the consequences of nuclear war were so appalling, the weapons existed primarily to ensure that they were never used. Deterrence rested upon the knowl...

The traditional science journal is dying, and not only from the ideological capture that has hollowed out its credibility. It is also being overtaken by simpler, faster, and more open forms of communication that no longer require its expensive gatekeeping apparatus. The prestige titles still command attention, but the model that sustained them, slo...

Footage circulating from the North African desert shows long columns of sub-Saharan men moving under apparent military escort. Estimates vary, some running into the tens of thousands. Commentators claim Algerian forces are directing the flow toward the coast and the Moroccan frontier. Whether every detail holds under scrutiny, the pattern is alread...