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6 May 2025

Jacinta Allan Vows to Transform Goldstein into "Victoria’s Alcatraz" if Tim Wilson Wins Election

MELBOURNE, VIC — In a bold twist inspired by a recent reports in the Babylon Bee that Donald Trump plans to fence off San Francisco to expand Alcatraz, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced an equally audacious plan: if Liberal candidate Tim Wilson wins the federal seat of Goldstein in the next election, she’ll turn the entire electorate into a maximum-security prison.

Economics

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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5 May 2025

When De Minimis Ain't So Minimal

By the time you’ve finished reading this, you’ll owe the government a nickel for the privilege of breathing free air.

Education

24 April 2025

The Cell Phone Conundrum in Schools

In the quiet hum of classrooms across America, a new challenge has emerged, one that would have been unthinkable a generation ago: the ubiquitous presence of cell phones.

Public Policy

17 April 2025

Teals' Green Ideals Tarnished by Slave Labour Links

In the crisp air of Australian politics, the teal independents have shimmered like a beacon of hope, their turquoise banners fluttering with promises of integrity, climate action, and a new moral compass. They swept into parliament in 2022, carried on the winds of voter discontent, vowing to steer the nation toward a cleaner, fairer future. But now, a shadow falls across their radiant ideals. Whispers, then shouts, have emerged from the digital ether—posts on X, murmurs in the press—linking their Climate 200 backers to the grim specter of slave labour in China’s Xinjiang region. The accusations, raw and unpolished, demand a reckoning: can the teals’ vision of virtue survive the stain of such a charge?

Public Policy

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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17 April 2025

Teal Hypocrisy Exposed: Climate 200's Push Polls Mock Democracy

Oh, how the mighty Teals have fallen. Those sanctimonious independents, draped in their eco-friendly turquoise, have spent years preaching integrity and transparency, casting themselves as the pure-hearted saviours of Australian politics.

Politics

Titus Lucretius Carus

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8 April 2025

Trump’s Tariff Fiasco: The Impotent Altar of Economic Sacrifice

In the grand theater of human folly, where the irrational masquerades as virtue, Donald Trump has once again hoisted the tattered banner of tariffs—a policy as impotent as it is revered by the collectivists and mystics who worship at the altar of economic sacrifice.

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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

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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

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

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