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The lost art of ‘truth-telling’ Beverley McArthur Getty Images Beverley McArthur 5 October 2022 4:00 AM It was a humbling experience to attend a function in Canberra’s old Parliament House recently to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the election of Neville Bonner to the federal Parliament. Neville Bonner was the first Indigenous Australian to achieveContinue reading “Flat White“

What does it mean when Giorgia Meloni quotes G.K. Chesterton? Is it fascist or anti-fascist to quote G.K. Chesterton, or neither? Sam Leith [Getty Images] Sam Leith 1 October 2022 9:00 AM For a UK audience, the most striking moment in the new Italian PM Giorgia Meloni’s victory speech will have been that she anchoredContinue reading “Features“

The curse of conservatism The Spectator Australia Getty Images The Spectator Australia 1 October 2022 9:00 AM The election victory of Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party came as welcome news this week. Welcome news for the world’s entirely predictable mainstream media who – and this, sadly, includes even centre-right publications in AustraliaContinue reading “Leading article Australia“

See less RUSSIA’S HISTORICAL ROOTS IN UKRAINE Russian President Vladimir Putin’s view of his country’s history is remarkably conservative. He firmly believes that Russia’s strength lies in its traditional Orthodox values. For Putin, Russia’s isolation from the globalist agenda of the western elites allows his country to preserve its Byzantine inheritance, its old Slavonic cultureContinue reading “RUSSIA’S HISTORICAL ROOTS IN UKRAINE”

Giorgia Meloni has won the Italian election and will become the first female head of state for Italy. She will also be the first right wing leader of the country since World War II. JUST IN – Italy's center-right bloc heads for election victory. Giorgia Meloni to become next prime minister — exit poll pic.twitter.com/7urRH8PKUxContinue reading “One country that has been at the forefront of the fight against globalism has been Italy.”

Conservatives fight back Across the Anglosphere the Left is under assault – except here James Allan Getty Images James Allan 24 September 2022 9:00 AM The US mid-term elections are under two months away. Forget any poll that over-samples Democrats, though bizarrely most US polls do. Barring some big political event in the next sevenContinue reading “Features Australia“

What Has the Monarchy Done For Us? Ben Pattison For 117 years, Australia – along with Canada and New Zealand, has enjoyed unparalleled political stability. Notwithstanding our Western heritage, the reason Australia is considered in the top tier of nations, while being neither militarily nor financially as powerful as our geography might suggest, is becauseContinue reading “QED”

Kerr, Whitlam and the Supremacy of the Parliament Peter O’Brien In a recent piece in The Australian,  concerning the proposition in the 1970s that the then Prince Charles might become Governor-General of Australia, Paul Kelly made the following observation concerning the dismissal of Gough Whitlam by Sir John Kerr: Kerr always knew the prime ministerContinue reading “The Dismissal”

The lost art of nation-building Australia has a shortage of thinking, not skills Jordan Knight Getty Images Jordan Knight 19 September 2022 4:00 AM If you’ve ever built something other than a political career, you will know that it takes lots of smarts and hard yakka. Building requires forward thinking, creativity, resilience, and, most importantly, aContinue reading “Flat White“

– Clare Pain, Spectator Australia, 10/9/2022. Saturday, September 10th, marks the anniversary of the banning of prescription of Ivermectin for Covid by our Therapeutic Good Administration (TGA). The story of Ivermectin is a story of the pandemic that might have been. There are doctors around the world, including Australia, who believe that, far from CovidContinue reading “Today is a significant anniversary.”

By  Dillon Burroughs • Sep 16, 2022   DailyWire.com • Tennis legend Roger Federer announced on Thursday that he is retiring from professional tennis at the age of 41. Federer shared the news in a written statement and a video on social media, marking the end of the career of one of the sport’s top athletes.Continue reading “Roger Federer Announces His Retirement From Tennis”

Flat White David Long Getty Images David Long 13 September 2022 2:18 PM By now, we have all heard that university professor Uju Anya did not like Queen Elizabeth II and regarded her as ‘the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire’. What’s more, while Her Majesty was dying, Anya further willed (via Twitter),Continue reading “Activists misplace their anger”

The horrifying truth about Liz Truss Melanie McDonagh (Credit: Getty images) Melanie McDonagh 7 September 2022 3:00 AM Was it just me or was Liz Truss actually smirking during her statement outside Downing Street, the one littered with cliches about spades in the ground and wince-making turns of phrase like ‘aspiration nation’? Another two yearsContinue reading “World“

Peter Costello: smirk back in langour Arthur Chrenkoff Arthur Chrenkoff 21 January 2019 8:26 PM Nostalgia has strange powers. With Kelly O’Dwyer pulling the pin on her federal parliamentary career and vacating the previously ultra-safe but now probably not-so-much seat of Higgins, people are popping up in the media longing for a comeback by theContinue reading “Flat White“

Celebrating Australia’s National Flag Sean Jacobs Pexels Sean Jacobs 3 September 2022 3:09 PM One of the truly unique stories of Australia’s National Flag is that it was designed by public competition.  In 1901, there were around 33,000 entrants that answered Prime Minister Edmund Barton’s advertisement for a National Flag in the government Gazette. Today,Continue reading “Flat White“

Flat White Flat White Getty Images Flat White 1 September 2022 7:40 PM Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was forced to leave a lecture at Sydney University Law Society after he was besieged by shouty students identifying as ‘activists’. Turnbull was set to appear as part of a series of alumni speakers, but fledContinue reading “Turnbull shouted out of university”

The Dnieper rapids and why Putin does not belong in Ukraine Norman Davies The Spectator Australia 27 August 2022 Za in Ukrainian – and other Slavic languages – means ‘Beyond’, and porohi means ‘the Rapids’; so Zaporizhia stands for ‘the place beyond the rapids’. It a nice irony that the place, whose threatened nuclear powerContinue reading “The Dnieper rapids and why Putin does not belong in Ukraine”

Tony Abbott: Andrews government worst in history Flat White Getty Images Flat White 29 August 2022 3:40 PM Former Liberal Prime Minister Tony Abbott has stepped back into the spotlight ahead of next month’s CPAC conference to call out Victoria’s Labor government as one of the worst in Australian history. Speaking to Sky News Australia, AbbottContinue reading “Flat White“