6 October 2025
11.8 MINS
Is Islam truly poised to surpass Christianity and redefine global culture and politics, or are we mistaking temporary momentum for lasting dominance? The answer could shape the future of both faiths — and influence the course of civilisation — in the decades to come.
30 September 2025
3.6 MINS
Australia is required to hold minimum fuel stocks to last 90 days so as to be in a position to manage energy disruptions and crises, such as war, cyberattacks on energy infrastructure, supply chain disruptions and extreme weather events. Australia on average in 2023-24, held fuel stocks equivalent to 53 IEA days.
30 September 2025
7.5 MINS
An Economist/YouGov survey quizzed Americans on political violence, reporting that 20% of voters who identify as liberal believe that political violence can be “justified”, compared to only 7% of self-described moderates and conservatives.
25 September 2025
4.9 MINS
This is the lure of podcast iconoclasm. It promises clarity by smashing what others hold sacred. It feels bold, even heroic. But the same fire that makes it captivating can also burn through everything that gives public discourse its stability.
24 September 2025
5.9 MINS
What people don’t know – and what senior police won’t tell you – is that a decrease in recorded drug offences correlates directly with reduced police productivity. It does not correlate with reduced drug crime, as police bosses would have you believe.
17 September 2025
5.5 MINS
Walk into many mainline churches today, and you may hear less about Christ crucified and risen—and more about the perceived dangers of Christian nationalism.
16 September 2025
8.3 MINS
Like termites silently hollowing out the beams of a house, Foucault’s scepticism about truth and morality slowly eroded the theological structure that had once held mainline Christianity together.
12 September 2025
5 MINS
This is not just a battle of ideas. It is a battle for the soul of the church. Palestinian Liberation Theology (PLT) does not merely distort Israel’s story. It displaces Christ Himself. It trades the eternal for the political, the universal for the partisan, the kingdom of God for the agenda of man.
11 September 2025
3.1 MINS
Israel's military strike on Hamas leaders in Doha, Qatar, on 9 September 2025, can be justified by understanding the needs of national security, self-defence, and the broader context of ongoing conflict.
11 September 2025
3.8 MINS
When does speaking your mind become an act of violence? That’s the question confronting Australia after activist Kirralie Smith was dragged through the courts for speaking about transgender athletes. Australia is fast becoming a place where simply stating biological reality is treated as hateful, even unlawful.
10 September 2025
10.5 MINS
Scientism is the philosophical claim—which cannot be proven scientifically—that science is the only valid form of knowledge. Because scientism cannot establish itself through rational argument, it relies instead on three tools to advance: brute force, defamation of critics, and the promise of future happiness.
8 September 2025
7.7 MINS
Your legal relationship to the children you’ve begotten is weaker than it was a decade ago. Turns out the answer to the question, “How does my gay marriage affect you?” is… in the worst way possible.
8 September 2025
5.5 MINS
In Victoria, the green revolution is running into resistance as the Victorian Government reveals plans to cover 8 per cent of the state – up from 7 per cent in the draft 2025 Victorian Transmission Plan released in May 2025 – with solar panels and wind farms.
3 September 2025
2.1 MINS
Only a tiny fraction of the millions of rifles owned by Americans are used by mass murderers. Yet politicians and the media demand gun control laws. Similarly, only a tiny fraction of children of divorce turn into rampage killers. Why don’t we demand measures for shoring up crumbling families?
2 September 2025
3 MINS
For the last two decades, the Australian and Canadian economies have been afflicted by a similar housing bubble, but there have been recent signs in Canada that the party is coming to an end.
28 August 2025
3.4 MINS
The alignment between Hamas’s ideology and the themes of "Mein Kampf" provides a chilling context for the brutality witnessed during the October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
27 August 2025
2.5 MINS
What has entered medicine is not a new discovery about human nature or the transience of gender, but a political ideology – and one that encroaches every day on children’s futures, schoolgirls’ right to single sex toilets, and perhaps, one day, the very lives of unborn children carried by men who seek to be pregnant.
26 August 2025
3.2 MINS
While accusations persist that Israel is deliberately starving Gaza as part of a genocidal strategy, the evidence overwhelmingly shows otherwise. International bodies should demand accountability from Hamas, not enable its tactics through biased reporting.
26 August 2025
5.8 MINS
What lessons, if any, can Australia take from U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-business One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB)? On the face of it, it is designed to deal with a problem that Australia faces to an even greater extent: the decline in the manufacturing base.
26 August 2025
6.7 MINS
The Islamic Republic of Iran stands apart in the contemporary Muslim world for the extent to which it fuses theological doctrine with political authority. While many Islamic societies maintain varying degrees of separation between religious leadership and state governance, Iran’s post-1979 order is constructed on [...]





