The Victorian Greens' proposal to force landlords to hold a licence, with three strikes and you're out of the rental business, is not a serious housing policy. It is an exercise in punitive regulation that will shrink the supply of rental homes, raise costs for the people it claims to help, and further confirm that the party long ago abandoned envi...

Modern universities produce an extraordinary volume of research, some of it valuable, technically sophisticated and capable of advancing human knowledge. Yet alongside genuine intellectual achievement there has developed an increasingly conspicuous academic industry devoted to investigating questions of questionable significance, often through elab...

Chris Morrison's Implausible is the book that finally puts the climate crisis narrative under a cold, unforgiving light and shows how little of it survives contact with evidence. As Environment Editor of the Daily Sceptic, Morrison has spent years documenting the gap between catastrophic claims and observed reality. This volume collects and expands...

For decades, Hollywood has presented the muscular action hero as the embodiment of masculine strength, physical discipline and almost superhuman endurance. Audiences have watched men develop extraordinary physiques, apparently through nothing more mysterious than hard training, determination and carefully controlled diets. The reality, however, has...

The sexual revolution of the 1960s is commonly presented as one of the great emancipatory achievements of modern Western society. According to the conventional progressive narrative, the weakening of traditional Christian sexual morality liberated individuals from repression, challenged patriarchal institutions and allowed women, in particular, to ...

The American poet Robert Frost, who died in 1963, is credited with one of the most memorable observations about political liberalism: "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." The remark is witty, but it also identifies a curious tendency within liberal political culture: the willingness to question one's own society, ...

Modern progressivism presents itself as the enlightened endpoint of history, compassionate, evidence-based, and always on the side of the future. Strip away the branding and the new vocabulary, and what remains is older material: a loosely assembled mixture of twentieth-century collectivist instincts, none of which have been cleanly reconciled with...

The controversy surrounding federal government grants to the MyCentre mosque in Broadmeadows, Melbourne, has raised a question extending far beyond any particular religious organisation: how carefully does the Australian government scrutinise the organisations receiving taxpayers' money, and how much information should the public be entitled to see...

The Montreal case of Natasha Graham is a clear illustration of how press freedom and ordinary liberties can erode in practice even when they remain formally protected on paper. An independent investigative journalist and petite single mother was filming a protest involving Islamist and pro-Hamas elements in Montreal's Old City in April 2025. Protes...

The benefits of physical exercise extend far beyond stronger muscles, improved cardiovascular fitness and weight control. One of the most remarkable discoveries of modern neuroscience is that exercise changes the brain itself, influencing its chemistry, blood circulation, cellular functioning and, over longer periods, aspects of its structure. Thes...

The pandemic exposed a profound moral hazard: corporations gained extraordinary leverage over governments while transparency, accountability, and the public interest took a back seat. Another pandemic must not become another bonanza for pharmaceutical corporations empowered by public fear and government desperation. COVID-19 exposed something deepl...

The Australia Marches national tour, a truck rolling through capitals and regional towns from Brisbane to Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra between September and November 2026, is a deliberately old-school move. A liveried rig, mobile stage, face-to-face rallies and the simple act of turning up in places like Gladstone, Mackay...

"It's a mathematical situation intensifying as Europe burns thanks to the international cooperation of far-left revolutionary separatists who demand a 'new Europe' built on the ruin of 'old Europe'. Children have been filmed saying that violence and the murder of civilians is justified in this quest of revolution. Without saying another word on the...

Australia is on the brink of a national emergency of almost biblical proportions: a catastrophic shortage of Uber Eats delivery drivers! Experts warn that without immediate action, millions of Australians may soon face the unthinkable horror of having to leave their couches, walk to the fridge, or, worst of all, cook something. The situation is par...

Janet Albrechtsen, writing in The Australian on October 14, 2026, has delivered a forceful diagnosis of the Liberal Party's ideological decline. Her argument is that Angus Taylor cannot rebuild the party while its progressive faction continues to undermine its conservative identity. She calls for the expulsion of Malcolm Turnbull, a decisive reject...

The war with Iran has settled into a temporary lull, but almost no one on either side treats it as more than a holding pattern. Michael Snyder's recent Substack lays out the Iranian reading of the situation clearly: fighting has been put on pause until after the 3 November US midterms, after which the Trump administration and Israel are expected to...

 Thousands of people reported mental health challenges — including at least two suicides and three attempted suicides — to V-safe after receiving COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the V-safe app in December 2020 to allow the public to report adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccin...

Greta Thunberg has turned up in France, joining the latest wave of student protests against supposed deteriorating educational conditions, teacher shortages and overcrowded classrooms. The Swedish activist, who first achieved international celebrity by skipping school to protest against climate change, has now found herself campaigning alongside Fr...

A recent Adelaide Now report notes that many Australians still back the wooden spoon as a tool of discipline even as reformers push to treat ordinary smacking as an assault offence. The campaign, focused especially on Queensland's review of the "reasonable chastisement" defence, would ban implements, any force to the head, face or neck, and effecti...

My nephew lost his job in construction; injuries made his work progress too slow. He wanted something lighter. I spent the morning going around the CBD asking food places if they need a hand. These were places with signs on the glass advertising work wanted. I asked Chinese, Indian and all sorts of diverse establishments. Every single one of them s...