06 March 2026 Originally Published in The Australian —— From an Australian perspective, the most significant thing about the US attack on Iran is that it does not involve us. Even though Australia is the one country that’s been with the United States in every major conflict, ever since American troops first went into action…
14 February 2026 Originally published in The Australian —— Angus Taylor’s accession to the leadership of the Liberal Party and alternative prime minister of Australia is good news for everyone who thinks our country is drifting backwards and needs change. His declaration that he will restore Australians’ standard of living and preserve our way of…
23 Feb 2026 Published on Substack Speech notes from the address to the Advance Australia Conference E&OE —— In my recent book, I declare that Australia is best described as one indissoluble federal Commonwealth under the Crown, with an indigenous heritage, a British foundation, and an immigrant character – and that’s because modern Australia was…
21 February 2026 Originally published in the Spectator Australia —— Now that Angus Taylor is leader, conservative voters should give the Liberal Party a chance to redeem itself: first, because his personal instincts are conservative; and second, because his early statements indicate a determination to lead a party in the best traditions of Robert Menzies…
05 February 2026 Published on Substack E&OE —— As the world’s 14th largest economy, Australia can hardly be America’s most powerful or most important ally, but we have been its most reliable one. Ever since US troops went into action for the first time on the Western Front, on 4 July 1918, at the battle…
26 January 2026 Originally published in the Australian —— If New Year’s Day is a time for personal resolutions, Australia Day should be the time for national ones. If it wasn’t obvious before the Bondi massacre, it certainly should be now. As a nation, we have let ourselves down. That two people, resident here for…
23 December 2025 Published on Substack —— It should not have taken the deaths of 15 innocent people for the Albanese government to crack down hard on the incitements to violence that have been rampant since the October 7 atrocity. Only if the government really has had a massive change of mind – and heart…
11 December 2025 Published on Substack E&OE —— It’s impossible to do justice to the life of Sir David Smith, whom we honour tonight, without considering the Whitlam dismissal, with which he will always be linked, the 50th anniversary of which has just passed. Some of the most watched footage in our history has the…
9 December 2025 Published in the Hungarian Conservative —— Australia is the only country in the world in recent times to have stopped a wave of illegal migration by boat. Just as Hungary is the only country in Europe to have secured its land borders by building a fence against illegal migration,[1] to the great…
4 December 2025 Location Published E&OE —— It’s good that we’re meeting here in Washington, where the main conservative party is not just in office but in power. And what’s not to like about building the wall, two genders only, making government more efficient, and drill baby drill? Yet elsewhere in the Anglosphere, it’s not…
