It should be a political hand grenade* Australia 🇦🇺 sits at or near the top of public-sector workers per 1,000 people among large nations. That’s not “we value public services.” That’s we run a very labour-intensive, compliance-heavy state. We don’t have a small-government problem or a big-government problem. We have a too-many-managers, not-enough-outcomes problem.

Yes. Especially when you consider that Venezuela 🇻🇪 was well known for its exemplary prisoner treatment*

Banks have tightened up, regulators are nervous, first-home buyers can’t scrape together deposits… so private lenders step in to re-leverage buyers who otherwise wouldn’t qualify. It’s not a great plan 🇦🇺

It’s the same thing in Australia 🇦🇺 It actually runs far deeper than most people realise. Private property isn’t just about wealth accumulation, it’s about proper independence and human dignity. If people can’t realistically acquire and retain their own home, they lose the economic foundation that underpins every other freedom we enjoy. A nation of permanent renters is far easier to manage, easier to tax and much easier to control but it is certainly not a nation of secure, confident citizens. Governmental policy should always favour families and first-home buyers not large fund managers balance sheets.

Suppressors are neither dangerous nor unusual. They are protected arms. They should be legal in Australia 🇦🇺

WTI crude oil is now under $57 a barrel⛽️ Fuel costs will lower for everyone in Australia 🇦🇺

When gold and copper are both hitting record highs at the same time, it’s a warning sign. Gold usually rises when people lose trust in money and governments are printing too much of it. Copper usually rises when the real economy is booming and lots of things are being built. Seeing both surge together tells us something unusual is happening: governments are spending and borrowing heavily, pushing up the price of real materials, while ordinary people are quietly losing purchasing power as the value of money is diluted. Asset prices go up, but wages don’t keep pace. That’s why everything feels more expensive even when politicians say the economy is “strong.” It’s not prosperity; it’s currency debasement colliding with real-world shortages, and 2026 is shaping up to expose that contradiction.

Be careful here, we’re nearing the top.

Viva Venezuela 🇻🇪 libre.

Any free thinking person with a brain rejects racial collectivism from both the left and the right 🇦🇺 Its always best to uphold individual dignity, private property, sound money and government being accountable for their own failures. Anyone offering scapegoats instead of balance sheets is not on the side of truth and decency. Any movement that replaces individual responsibility with group guilt is incompatible with a free society.

Australia’s record house prices are not a mystery of “market forces” they are the predictable outcome of policy. Since 2015, Australia’s broad money supply has expanded by roughly 80%, massively diluting the purchasing power of wages and savings. When a government runs loose fiscal policy, funds deficits with debt, and allows banks to create ever more credit, that new money must land somewhere. It overwhelmingly flows into scarce assets like housing. At the same time, high immigration settings inject relentless demand into a market where housing supply is structurally constrained, turning shelter into a bidding war. The result is not prosperity, but a brutal cost-of-living squeeze: higher mortgages, higher rents, higher land prices and a generation forced to compete against debased currency and policy-driven demand. This is not a housing failure; it is a currency and fiscal discipline failure and Aussie households are paying the price.

Jews were permitted to return to England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in 1656 (after being expelled in 1290) during the rule of Oliver Cromwell.

Bitcoin, harder to seize than Maduro*

What a winner this guy is.

Ferdinand Lassalle*

IAN PLIMER | The first instance of murderous Islamic terrorism occurred in Australia more than 100 years ago. Nothing has changed. The primary cause still exists and has never been firmly addressed. On 11 November 1914, there was a proclamation of a holy war on behalf of the pan-Islamic world against the Allies by Sheikh al-Islam, the spiritual advisor to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V. This occurred less than a month after the Ottoman Empire joined the Axis forces in World War I. News of this international fatwa travelled fast. Terrorism took place in Australia seven weeks later and months before the Allied invasion of Turkey on Anzac Day, 1915. At 10 am on 1 January 1915, two Islamic terrorists attacked a picnic train on the outskirts of Broken Hill. Article |

The Spectator Australia

Our first Islamist terror attack | The Spectator Australia

The first instance of murderous Islamic terrorism occurred in Australia more than 100 years ago. Nothing has changed. The primary…

What do we expect? Self-regulation is inherently weak. When the same institution accused of misconduct is responsible for investigating itself, incentives align toward minimisation, delay and reputational protection; not truth-finding and fact telling 🇦🇺

The common man.

Spot Copper is trading within 5% of its all-time high. It’s a strong signal that global electrification demand, supply constraints and monetary conditions are all colliding at the same time ⚡️

Iran.