23 December 2024 St Patrick’s Cathedral, MelbourneE&OE —— It’s an honour to be giving this address, on behalf of the Andrews family; because for all his achievements on the national stage, it’s the family that Kevin and Margaret have built, inside their home – with five wonderful children and their spouses, and seven adored grandchildren…
11 December 2024 Published in The Wall Street Journal —— JD Vance is tired of Washington lawmakers who believe they can “remake the entire world in America’s image.” So he said in an October podcast with Joe Rogan, adding that the Iraq war was America’s “biggest world-historical catastrophe.” This came after insights into issues as…
11 December 2024 Published in The Australian. Based on remarks given to Danube Institute-Heritage Foundation Forum in Washington DC —— John Howard was right when he famously declared, in the run-up to the 2001 Australian election: “we shall decide who comes to this country and the circumstances under which they come”. Immigration has such ramification…
7 December 2024 Published in The Daily Telegraph —— Just because a horror is hard to eradicate, or has been around a long time, doesn’t make it any less vile. Nor should any prime minister use that as an excuse to be feeble in the face of it. Ever since the October 7 atrocity, the…