When energy prices soar and blackouts ensue, as they will, forced rationing will become a fact of everyday life. Teals and well-to-do others will live in energy-secure communities, so worry not for their coiffured heads. Instead, fret at the accelerating slide into a world where the State and corporations make common cause

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Even if we accept the dubious proposition that early voting does not facilitate cheating and electoral fraud, as its defenders insist, it remains a practice that endangers democracy by encouraging premature decisions. Shouldn't voters be required to wait at least until candidates have faced off in open debate before making their choices?

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The democratic system (aka 'responsible government' and representative democracy) required two things in order to function properly: properly motivated politicians and informed voters.  Now we have neither, and this is why the system is so broken

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In a saner and more disciplined world, Treasury might well come up with several well-defined options to deal with high energy prices, rigorously examine the potential consequences of each, and present the results for the government to decide. We no longer live in that world

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There are two explanations for voting left in today’s world, neither at all similar to my Dad's reasons for doing so in a different and now vanished world. One reason is the simple desire to tear down and destroy, much as a delinquent teen delights in vandalism for the sheer devilment of it. The other is a reflection of the first: arrested development

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While it is receiving little news coverage outside Brazil, with social media even blocking clips of protests against the conduct of the presidential election that ousted Jair Bolsonaro, the country is in an uproar. E-voting machines with no paper records, openly partisan judges, critics jailed and their bank accounts seized, that's what passes for 'democracy'

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Scott Morrison built up massive public debt to fund the premiers' lockdowns, a splurge that has disrupted the natural pattern of Labor running up debts the Coalition must service and shrink. Now it's up to Labor to repair the damage while pouring more billions down the green drain. Things are looking grim indeed

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How surprised must the Aboriginal groups seeking control of Mt Warning have been when their demand was blessed with a meek and submissive 'yes' from a mouse-like NSW government? Every other Australian should be appalled that access to the first point on the mainland touched by the dawning sun has been denied them solely on the basis of race

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The times are made for conservatism. They always are, but particularly in today’s world, where fringe causes monopolise the public square and irrational fears drown good sense. Workers are crying out for conservatism, without quite knowing they are. Ms Truss, alas, lacked the nous to open their eyes and the resolve to lead them there

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What next? Is the Russian nuclear threat a veto of any effective response to Putin's aggression? Would this not signify the death of NATO? Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson and other like-minded isolationists, you are fools

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