This weekend, the idea that Australia was bucking the trend on debates over immigration was stamped to bits. My country has mostly avoided the recent populist uprisings in the rest of the Anglosphere and Europe. There’s been no Reform surge, no Trump moment, no AfD...
Dan Ryan
The answer… a new conservatism
There have been many interesting reactions to the Australian Liberal Party’s catastrophic loss this year. But surely one of the most bizarre has been how leading progressive Liberals have declared that we need modernisation and a focus on values and priorities of...
Time for some home truths
Home ownership is declining across the West. In America, the rate continues to fall, down 3.5 percentage points since its peak. Australia is down 3 points, Great Britain is down nearly 7 points since, and so on. Too good not to SHARE! These might...
How the right can recapture Greens-land
Less than eight years ago, all politicians at all levels of government in my area were members of the Liberal-National Party. In the once blue ribbon federal seat of Ryan, the primary vote for the LNP has gone from 52 per cent in 2016 to just over 34 per cent at the...
The problem with the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) and the wine and cheeseboard right
What should be the most important issue of the 2025 federal election in Australia? Nuclear power? Whacking woke? The gender wars? Taxes and costs of living? Some new or existing foreign conflict in Europe, the Middle East, or Asia? All worthy topics of discussion, no...




