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28 May 2025

9 Behaviors That Should (Humorously) Disqualify Someone From Voting

In a world where individual liberty and informed decision-making are the cornerstones of a free society, the act of voting carries immense responsibility.

Parenting

20 May 2025

Child Mortality Progress Stalls as Bureaucrats Fumble Malaria Fight

LAGOS — The world has slashed child mortality rates over the past few decades, a triumph of human ingenuity and market-driven innovation in healthcare, nutrition, and sanitation.

Politics

13 May 2025

Is Diversity Our Strength? A Reflection on Unity and Difference

In the American imagination, the phrase “diversity is our strength” has become a kind of civic mantra, a shorthand for the belief that our differences—racial, cultural, religious—make us not just vibrant but resilient. It’s a sentiment etched into the national psyche, from corporate boardrooms to elementary school assemblies. Yet, in recent years, a counterargument has gained traction, one that challenges this orthodoxy with a provocative question: What if diversity, far from being a unifying force, is a source of fracture?

Why Tim Wilson Should Lead the Liberal Party

Gather round – all who dare – as the Liberal Party indulges in its triannual version of The Hunger Games. With all the grace of a rhinoceros in a tutu, you will witness those who were in a position to avert this defeat claim they had no idea, while simultaneously blaming those who were expressing scepticism for all that befell us.

Politics

9 May 2025

The Chains on Australian Labour: A Call for Individual Liberty

In the land of Australia, where the individual’s mind and muscle once carved prosperity from a rugged frontier, a new tyranny binds the spirit of the productive.

Economics

8 May 2025

Global Concerns: Where Health and Social Security Top the Worry List

In a world where anxiety seems to be the only universal currency, health and social security have emerged as the top concerns for people across the globe, according to a recent Statista chart based on data from the Ipsos Global Advisor survey conducted in late 2024. The findings,

Life

8 May 2025

Cloud Wars: Uncle Sam’s Tech Titans Hog the Sky

Well, well, well, look at the Yanks strutting their stuff in the cloud like they own the bloody atmosphere. Statista’s latest chart—buried under a URL so bloated it could sink a server—lays it bare: American tech giants are the undisputed

Education

8 May 2025

The Catholic Church's Process for Selecting a Pope

The selection of a new pope is one of the most significant events in the Catholic Church, steeped in centuries of tradition and ritual. Known as a conclave, this process is a carefully orchestrated gathering of cardinals to elect the next leader of the global Catholic community. Below is an overview of how the conclave works, drawing on established practices.

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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

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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

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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

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In the Quiet Corners of History

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Why Tim Wilson Should Lead the Liberal Party

The Chains on Australian Labour: A Call for Individual Liberty

Global Concerns: Where Health and Social Security Top the Worry List

Cloud Wars: Uncle Sam’s Tech Titans Hog the Sky

The Catholic Church's Process for Selecting a Pope

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