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…
22 November 2025 Published in the Spectator —— This is Greg Sheridan’s third volume of Christian apologetics. The first, Christians, was the case for Christian faith. The second, God is Good for You, was an exploration of the character and personality of Jesus. This latest work, How Christians Can Succeed Today, is essentially a call…
Speech notes from Anne Henderson’s Paul Hasluck Monograph Launch 11 November 2025 E&OE —— This slim but immensely readable and sharply drawn life of Sir Paul Hasluck is Anne Henderson’s latest luminous contribution to our understanding of Australia’s public life, following earlier works such as her biographies of Dame Enid and Joe Lyons (perhaps our…
22 October 2025 Published on Substack —— While there’s much to cheer in the second Trump presidency’s foreign policy, such as the bombing of Iran’s nuclear faculties and the freeing of the Israeli hostages, there’s one especially puzzling anomaly from an administration otherwise pledged to winning the new Cold War with China. Why would a…
07 October 2025 Published on Substack —— When Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher came into office, the Western world was at a low ebb. The 1973 oil crisis had created stagflation. The US had comprehensively lost the Vietnam War. There was a pervasive sense of malaise, embodied in the high-minded but ineffectual presidency of Jimmy…
24 September 2025 Published on Substack E&OE —— It’s wonderful to be here in Brisbane! It’s wonderful to be with so many people who love our country and want it to be better. Like me, I am sure that you believe that this is the best country in the world. Our job is to keep…
19 September 2025 Published on Substack —— America’s Inward Turn and the End of an Era Just prior to my first trip to Washington as Prime Minister in 2014, President Obama had declared at West Point that America could not be the world’s policeman on its own. Believing that the world needed a policeman, to…
11 September 2025 Published on Substack —— Just because immigration is a sensitive subject doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be discussed. In settler societies, there’s often a particular reticence because almost everyone is an immigrant or the descendant of immigrants and raising immigration issues can seem “personal” in a way few other debates are. But it’s…
1 September 2025 Published on Substack —— This, my inaugural Substack piece, will be one of many I write trying to make sense of what’s happening today, both geopolitically and culturally. I do not intend to tether myself to any particular set of topics in the coming years, but this article will give the reader…
