There are three numbers Australians should walk away from the last twenty four hours of Senate estimates remembering.
Every twenty years, give or take, the British Left rediscovers the wealth tax. They rediscover it with the bright-eyed conviction of a Labrador rediscovering a tennis ball under the sofa, and with roughly the same level of new information.
There is a certain quality of light that falls across the western plains in late autumn, a light my father used to call "the bachelor's hour" because it found you alone whether you wanted to be or not.
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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?
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.
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.
The problem with the culture war
First, defend and prosecute the economic-reform agenda.
The term ‘free market’ is in many ways an oxymoron.
Payroll tax is the largest state and territory-levied tax
Economic, social and political reasons make housing a logical new starting point for the free-market project.