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11 June 2025

The Hidden Costs of AI Regulation: A Tale of Caution and Opportunity

In the quiet hum of our digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as both a beacon of progress and a specter of unease. It’s the kind of technology that stirs the soul, promising to reshape our world while whispering warnings of unintended consequences.

Public Policy

10 June 2025

Time for liberals to become YIMBYs

Australia faces a housing crisis that stifles opportunity, burdens young people, and hampers economic growth. The root of the problem around the world lies in a planning system that empowers NIMBYs

Economics

10 June 2025

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears—and your denarii, while you’re at it, because the gods know you won’t get much for them these days! I, Marcus Tullius Cicero, have returned from the shades to cast a jaundiced eye on this modern calamity: interest rates climbing faster than a plebeian chasing a free loaf at the Circus Maximus. The culprits? Not merely the Fates, but the heavy hand of regulation, which, like a toga too starched, constricts until it chokes.

Public Policy

2 June 2025

The Moral Case for Climate Clarity

In our era of fervent debates and polarized certainties, the conversation around climate change often feels like a labyrinth of half-truths and well-meaning distortions. We are caught in a peculiar dance: one side shouts apocalypse, the other whispers denial, and the truth, as it so often does, lingers in the uncomfortable middle, waiting for a clearer voice. Inspired by the sharp reasoning of a recent piece from the Adam Smith Institute, I find myself reflecting not just on climate policy but on the deeper moral and intellectual habits that shape how we approach this defining issue.

Judges and Left-Wing Lawyers Outlaw Physics: A Modest Proposal to Ban Reality Itself

In a world where common sense is scarcer than a balanced budget, our esteemed federal judiciary and their left-wing lawyer pals have taken their gavels to new heights—or, rather, new lows—by attempting to outlaw the laws of physics.

Parenting

30 May 2025

The World Isn’t Doomed: Why We Must Stop Scaring Our Kids

I was at a coffee shop the other day, eavesdropping on a conversation between a mother and her teenage daughter.

Politics

30 May 2025

The Enduring Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister and a towering figure in 20th-century politics, reshaped the United Kingdom and left an indelible mark on the global stage.

Education

29 May 2025

The Case for the Pub

The traditional pub is more than a booze-fueled escape hatch from reality—it’s a cultural Swiss Army knife, a social hub, and a defiant middle finger to the sterile, screen-addicted modern world. Picture a pub

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

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The Hidden Costs of AI Regulation: A Tale of Caution and Opportunity

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The World Isn’t Doomed: Why We Must Stop Scaring Our Kids

The Enduring Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

The Case for the Pub

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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The Hidden Costs of AI Regulation: A Tale of Caution and Opportunity

Time for liberals to become YIMBYs

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

The Moral Case for Climate Clarity

Judges and Left-Wing Lawyers Outlaw Physics: A Modest Proposal to Ban Reality Itself

The World Isn’t Doomed: Why We Must Stop Scaring Our Kids

The Enduring Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

The Case for the Pub

Andrew Bragg has just discovered 51,000 home guarantees quietly issued to non-citizens, and the National Construction Code freeze is gone

Three Submarines, Two Decades, One Vague Hope: A Modest Appreciation of AUKUS

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