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…
30 July 2025 Published in The Australian St John’s Anglican Church, Ashfield E&OE —— With John Stone, whom we honour and mourn, it’s hard to find any sphere in which he did not excel. He was a brilliant student. He was outstanding at sport. He was the 1951 West Australian Rhodes Scholar. He swiftly rose…
Speech notes from the address to the ACETCA Gala Dinner 27 June 2025 E&OE —— It’s good to be here, marking ten years since the Abbott government finalised the landmark trade deal between Australia and China, thanks to the prodigious work of Andrew Robb, our best ever trade minister. And also to celebrate the contribution…
Published in the Kyiv Post – 2 June 2025 —— The infamous Oval Office stand-off between Presidents Zelensky and Trump was quite possibly a seismic moment in history. Here was the leader of the free world berating the greatest freedom fighter of recent times for having the temerity to stand up for his country. While…
Published in the Australian, 31 May 2025 — In scale, the Liberals’ recent defeat rivals the rout of the old United Australia Party in 1943, that led to its demise and to the Liberals’ formation. It must mean a serious analysis of what’s gone wrong over recent times and what should change if the Liberals…
Delivered to CPAC Hungary, Budapest – 29 May 2025 Published in the Hungarian Conservative —— It’s good to be here at this global gathering – actually, a global gathering against globalisation – of thinkers and leaders in favour of strong and independent sovereign states, that work together when that accords with their interests and values….
Delivered to the Asian Leadership Conference, Seoul, Korea – 22 May 2025 Published in the Australian – 25 May 2025 —— It’s the lived experience of billions of people that shows the benefits of freer trade. After some seven decades of globalisation, the world in 2020 – pre-pandemic, pre-Ukraine, pre-October 7, pre-the intensifying contest with…
14 May 2025 Published in the Australian —— Immigration and multiculturalism was the issue neither side wanted to touch in the election campaign, even though it impacted heavily on the cost-of-living crisis both sides were pledged to address; even though it contributed to the wave of anti-semitism both sides were pledged to stop, and; even…
12 May 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, to the great…
