While Australians woke to the fifth interest rate rise of 2026 and mortgage repayments approaching levels last seen under Paul Keating, the Prime Minister was in the Caribbean boarding a billionaire’s low-carbon vessel with King Charles. The optics were as… Continue Reading →
Off the coast of Geraldton, ten container ships lay anchored on the horizon, waiting to be filled with wheat. Here on the manicured foreshore the windsurfers race over the choppy waves, and she sits on the bench, phone in hand,… Continue Reading →
Angus Taylor, leader of the Australian Liberal Party, faces a real risk of losing Hume to One Nation if current trends hold to 2028. Anthony Albanese’s hold on his inner-west seat of Grayndler, despite soft primary numbers, the multiple scandals… Continue Reading →
The Australian economy is not quietly deteriorating. It is being publicly flogged, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers is taking the whip. The front pages of the past seven days have read like a charge sheet. “What would you cut?” Chalmers challenges… Continue Reading →
The plateau at Barren Grounds, on the Illawarra escarpment above the south coast of NSW, is the southern remnant of a much larger sheet of Middle Triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone, laid down more than 200 million years ago as the Sydney… Continue Reading →
The humpback whale migration up and down the east coast of Australia is one of the great natural wonders of the world. As November settles over the east coast, the last of the humpbacks are heading south. Mothers with calves,… Continue Reading →
Jacinda Ardern remains one of the most polarising figures in recent New Zealand political history, widely disliked at home for reasons that have little to do with the glowing international coverage of her “kindness” and “empathy.” During the COVID years… Continue Reading →
To the squadrons of mossies, her naked curves glistening under the fluorescence must have made them think they were about to feast on Lancelin’s tribute to Venus de Milo, but instead of an open clam she had left the door… Continue Reading →
Scott Kuru has become one of the sharper voices arguing that Australian governments are mismanaging the economy through relentless taxation and policies that punish effort. The property adviser and YouTuber repeatedly shows how households and small businesses are squeezed from… Continue Reading →
New South Wales has become the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise terramation – human composting – as a third option alongside burial and cremation. Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich’s private member’s bill, the Public Health Amendment (Terramation) Bill 2026, passed… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is rarely far from a beer. Cameras have caught him chugging one in the crowd at a Gang of Youths concert in his home city, pouring at Gage Roads in Fremantle, or turning up at a… Continue Reading →
Give me your bike. This was 2 a.m. in a carpark in Bunbury. John, 79, left his car’s rear door open so his dog could get out. Now a large, ice-affected man in his mid-forties had his head in the… Continue Reading →
Just weeks before independent MP Helen Haines was allegedly deliberately rammed twice by a vehicle outside her Wangaratta office, resulting in the amputation of both legs and leaving her in critical condition, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office circulated a five-page… Continue Reading →
Helen Haines, the independent member for Indi, remains in critical condition after a man deliberately drove a Toyota LandCruiser into her outside her Wangaratta electorate office. She has lost both legs. Police have charged 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, a local with… Continue Reading →
Ten separate stories. Same bloody problem: Nobody tells the Australians affected. 1. The Roads Vanished, and 000 Can’t Get You September 2020. The Queensland Roads Team swapped the old Baseline Roads and Tracks (BRAT) dataset for the new Queensland Roads… Continue Reading →
There are now so many scandals attaching to the Australian government headed by the beleaguered Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that it is difficult to keep track. To make things easier we have compiled the following Field Guide. For its many… Continue Reading →
Mired in scandal and plummeting in popularity, the Albanese government is desperate to crush free speech in Australia any way it can. Australia’s new hate-speech laws, rammed through Parliament with almost no public consultation and the full support of the… Continue Reading →
Hear the author’s live interview via Café Locked Out on Rumble, Facebook, and X. We don’t get such great numbers on YouTube for reasons known only to the algorithms. Signed copies will also be made available through Café Locked Out’s… Continue Reading →
There is no hotter issue in Australia today than mass migration. The public sentiment has soured dramatically. A once reasonably successful immigrant nation has become hostile to strangers, and the divide between the nation’s political elites and the average citizen… Continue Reading →
Australian businesses are closing at rates that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, and the human cost is spreading into personal bankruptcies and late payments that signal more pain ahead. Official figures show 14,153 companies entered external administration… Continue Reading →
The Australian government wants the power to arbitrarily censor scenes of violent crime, or violence, for any reason. And it wants the power to use an unlimited number of fake accounts to wage offensive disinformational warfare against the Australian people…. Continue Reading →
The fish and chip shop had a Lest We Forget flag pinned above the door. That’s why we stopped. When I went in, the store was small. Outside it was a light marine blue, and inside it was painted and… Continue Reading →
High profile free speech advocate Michael Shellenberger has returned to Australia after a two year absence. Asking why in the world anyone would want a government to be able to silence practically any citizen online, his message has been blunt…. Continue Reading →
In the glossy narratives of artificial intelligence, Australia – and the wider West – stands on the threshold of Universal Abundance. Machines will free us from toil, algorithms will optimise every need, and the old constraints of scarcity will dissolve… Continue Reading →
The Nullarbor is supposed to be the place where the country runs out. From the car it is a ruled line, a white edge on bitumen, saltbush and sky, and the long habit of calling it empty. This spring the… Continue Reading →
A Billion-Dollar Australian Broadcaster Takes Aim at an Independent Michael West has put his reply to the ABC’s Media Watch on the record after the program accused him of perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. On Friday, executive producer Mario Christodoulou wrote… Continue Reading →
In Penong, on the Nullarbor, the Ampol station is the only public room for a hundred kilometres in any direction that pretends to offer the internet. I sat there for an hour yesterday trying to join the Telstra public network…. Continue Reading →
Fiji for him. The power bill for everyone else. The man who promised cheaper power is in Fiji. The woman who never promised anything of the sort is packing halls in Victoria. Between those two facts sits the ugliest week… Continue Reading →
There are affinities that feel less like coincidence than recognition. For years Maria Popova, the Bulgarian-born, New York-based polymath behind The Marginalian, has returned again and again to the work of Nick Cave — not as fan service, but as… Continue Reading →
Drive past almost any major roadworks site in Australia and the picture is the same. High-vis vests, orange cones, and young women in hard hats twirling the red-and-white stop/slow bats that have earned them the name lollipop ladies. Some are… Continue Reading →
The Australian continent has always been useful to other people’s wars. What has changed is the density of that usefulness. The Nautilus Institute, an American security think tank with a nuclear disarmament brief funded mainly by American philanthropic foundations, has… Continue Reading →
The Australian Liberal Party is not in trouble. It is finished. Their demise, years in the making, has been well earned. For international readers, in the Upside Down World known as Australia, the Liberal Party are the nation’s conservatives. Repeated… Continue Reading →
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