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7 January 2026

Echoes of the Dry: How the Hand of Government Choked the Gas Beneath Our Feet

In the vast, sun-cracked expanse of the Australian interior, where the earth holds secrets in its layered veins coal seams and shale beds pulsing with the promise of fire there's a quiet betrayal unfolding.

Economics

6 January 2026

No One In Charge, And That’s The Beauty

Marmite‑scented deodorant is the kind of idea that makes half the country retch and the other half reach for their wallet – which is precisely why it is such a glorious little case study in how free markets are supposed to work.

Economics

6 January 2026

How Regulation Broke The Housing Market

Build, Baby, Build is a punchy, persuasive case for tearing up the planning rulebook and letting homes be built where people actually want to live and work.

Public Policy

6 January 2026

From Oz to the Beltway: The Global Farce of Government 'Fixing' Housing

Ah, Australia – that sun-baked land of kangaroos, barbecues, and housing prices that could make a sheikh blush. Down there, they've got a housing crisis so acute it's practically a national sport. Renters are forking over fortunes for shoebox flats

Economics

5 January 2026

Marmite-Scented Deodorant: The Glorious Stench of Freedom

Ah, liberty! That intoxicating whiff of unbridled possibility, wafting through the air like a fresh dab of Marmite under the armpits.

Economics

5 January 2026

Why Australia Should Roll Out the Red Carpet for Wealthy Entrepreneurs

In the echo chambers of left-wing commentary, there's a persistent narrative: wealthy entrepreneurs are villains who extract more from society than they contribute.

Politics

16 December 2025

Key Insights on the Islamophobia Definition Debate

Research suggests that formal definitions of Islamophobia, as explored in recent UK reports, may inadvertently limit open discussions on related social issues, though proponents argue they help combat

Politics

15 December 2025

How Did Zohran Mamdani Win?

I’ll admit it: when the results came in from New York’s 12th Assembly District last month, I had to double-check the map. Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old democratic socialist

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The Prime Minister is about to give a speech about artificial intelligence and the country is still poorer at the end of it

The Coalition's primary vote has now collapsed to 17 per cent, Andrew Bragg used the half-hour with Patricia Karvelas on Tuesday to confess the cause, and Liberal MP Garth Hamilton spent Question Time being marched out of the chamber.

The Albanese tax package became law on Thursday, and the market took A$185 billion off the country's two biggest cities while the lobbyists congratulated themselves.

Keir Starmer told the House on Monday that he was resigning, and Britain will soon have its seventh prime minister in ten years

The Coalition is now a minor party and One Nation is the alternative government, and the Roy Morgan numbers have stopped being a protest

Albanese and Chalmers got their tax package through the Senate, and the only Australians who escaped it were the ones with the best lobbyists

When Energy Goes to Zero, the Earnings Statements You Read Now Become Antiques

The Poverty Rate Has Collapsed. The Dependency Industry Refuses to Read the Number.

The Economist Has Finally Said Aloud What Australian Liberals Have Been Whispering

A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

Idaho’s Charter Schools Rescue: Or, How to Stop Bureaucrats from Amputating Education

The Poverty Rate Has Collapsed. The Dependency Industry Refuses to Read the Number.

The Economist Has Finally Said Aloud What Australian Liberals Have Been Whispering

A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

Australia's Economy Grapples with Stubborn Inflation and Rate Hike Reversal

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The Prime Minister is about to give a speech about artificial intelligence and the country is still poorer at the end of it

The Coalition's primary vote has now collapsed to 17 per cent, Andrew Bragg used the half-hour with Patricia Karvelas on Tuesday to confess the cause, and Liberal MP Garth Hamilton spent Question Time being marched out of the chamber.

The Albanese tax package became law on Thursday, and the market took A$185 billion off the country's two biggest cities while the lobbyists congratulated themselves.

Keir Starmer told the House on Monday that he was resigning, and Britain will soon have its seventh prime minister in ten years

The Coalition is now a minor party and One Nation is the alternative government, and the Roy Morgan numbers have stopped being a protest

Albanese and Chalmers got their tax package through the Senate, and the only Australians who escaped it were the ones with the best lobbyists

When Energy Goes to Zero, the Earnings Statements You Read Now Become Antiques

The Poverty Rate Has Collapsed. The Dependency Industry Refuses to Read the Number.

The Economist Has Finally Said Aloud What Australian Liberals Have Been Whispering

A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

Idaho’s Charter Schools Rescue: Or, How to Stop Bureaucrats from Amputating Education

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The Poverty Rate Has Collapsed. The Dependency Industry Refuses to Read the Number.

The Economist Has Finally Said Aloud What Australian Liberals Have Been Whispering

A Week to Count a Vote Is Not Patience — It Is a Quiet Failure of the State

Senator Sharma's Six-to-Eight-Week Inquiry Is the First Honest Concession in This Tax Debate

Australia's Economy Grapples with Stubborn Inflation and Rate Hike Reversal

Down Under: Australia's Growth Agenda – Or How to Stop Being a Bloody Bureaucratic Babysitter and Let the Economy Roar

Stamp Duty: An Economic Burden on Australia's Housing Market

In the Quiet Corners of History

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Marmite-Scented Deodorant: The Glorious Stench of Freedom

Why Australia Should Roll Out the Red Carpet for Wealthy Entrepreneurs

Key Insights on the Islamophobia Definition Debate

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