Since the Voice presupposes an inherent difference between Aboriginal Australians and non-Aboriginal Australians, at a philosophical level the proposal is inherently illiberal, divisive and inequitable. As Janet Albrechtsen correctly puts it, 'it creates permanent race-based privilege and turns Australia into a constitutionally endorsed two-tier society'

If the former Prime Minister’s actions in taking charge of five secret portfolios were legal, as the solicitor-general has determined, why the need for inquiry? This demand for a probe has all the hallmarks of an attempt by the present government to gain political advantage. In doing so, Albanese is reacting to a thunderstorm when there is only a light, albeit peculiar, drizzle

Federal governments have successfully relied upon the Constitution's external affairs power to support the enactment of a great number of laws over the years. Accordingly, were the the Morrison government inclined to act against the states' vaccine mandates, it would be simplicity itself step in and protect Australians from their premiers and chief health officers

Although we cannot predict what the Australian High Court might […]

That Afghanistan could ever be brought into the community of nations as a modernising, democratic state was always a pipedream. That America could be humbled, humiliated in the eyes of the world, was the Taliban's vision, now fulfilled. As a doddering, incoherent US president attempts to offload blame, the West's enemies rejoice

The ‘rule of law’ is being gradually overturned by 'progressive' ideas that incorporate a myriad statist considerations in opposition to the liberal-democratic legal traditions upon which Australia was founded. If governments cannot constitutionally force vaccinations, they certainly cannot foster a situation where that same end is attained by indirect means