Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…

Albanese’s Labor are not building anything. Their communism brings us full circle back to anarchy.

Labor governments in Australia arose from the union movement and the Fabian tradition, but there has always been tension between the reformers and the radicals of the left. The reformers see government as a means of putting a human face on capitalism, whereas the radicals, or more appropriately, the communists, see government as the very problem with human society.

From Hobbes and his conservatism that saves us from anarchy to Locke and Mill and their liberalism, and to the Fabians and their reformist zeal, communism brings us full circle back to anarchy.

That’s where Albanese’s Labor Party is taking us. They’re not building anything. They’re tearing us apart.

In the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes wrote:

And what of Labor? Are they nation builders, or nation destroyers? I think we know the answer to that one, don’t we folks? Michael de Percy certainly does!

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Labor is not building anything. They are tearing society apart…

Labor has been in power for a long time now - what have they actually BUILT?

They've taxed. They've spent. They've dug us into nearly a trillion dollars of debt. They've expanded the public service. They've polished their Net Zero vanity.

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— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) August 9, 2026

Cheaper electricity? Chris Bowen promises it’s on its way to you soon...

Lower retail electricity prices are in that land of the unicorns where your $275 saving lives.

Mr Bowen recently posted on Facebook that wholesale energy prices had decreased 47 per cent in the past 12 months.

At the National Press Club today, I asked him:

…in many cases retail supply charges have increased and time of use windows have changed, making any consumer price changes minimal, and less transparent. Minister, who is actually benefiting from the halving of wholesale electricity prices?

He confidently responded with a non-answer. It will flow through to the consumer so wholesale price reductions are a good thing.

The bottom line is that lower retail electricity prices are with your $2.75 saving Labor promised in 2022.

In the Flat White newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, has turned ‘underwhelming’ into an art. His polished media appearances, including at the National Press Club last week, allow criticism to slide off his suit jacket. Ignoring those who point out the eye-watering costs of his COP-31 moonlighting, the Energy Minister has been pushing Labor’s Net Zero policies so hard that a future Coalition government will struggle to unpick the damage. Our Canberra correspondent was at the Press Club to ask the Minister questions.

In the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes wrote:

Our Michael de Percy attended energy minister Chris Bowen’s ideological diatribe at the National Press Club yesterday, so you don’t have to. His report from the Press Club trenches shows how Bowen is a master of the non-answer, talking about energy consumers yet caring not about them. One can only hope the Press Club’s rubber chicken made the motorcycle trip to hear Bowen worthwhile for Michael.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Cheaper electricity? Chris Bowen promises it’s on its way to you soon...

Energy prices are getting cheaper - didn't you hear?

Energy Minister Chris Bowen said so on his Facebook.

Today, I asked him at the National Press Club: Who is benefitting from lower wholesale electricity prices?

Not you and me...

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— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) August 5, 2026

You need to decolonise your mind

It’s not spring, so it wasn’t spring cleaning. It was pure catharsis.

Some might say the real colonial occupation in Western liberal democracies is not the one the textbooks denounce, but the ideological one they themselves carried. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o coined the phrase in a very different context. The irony is that the phrase now travels more easily in the opposite direction.

From the late 1970s and 1980s, imported theoretical apparatuses such as postcolonial theory, applied postmodernism, and critical approaches to identity, established themselves inside Australian universities and then cascaded into teacher training, curricula, and public discourse.

Much of it arrived via French high theory in the late 1970s and 1980s. Thatcher was alert to the broader cultural and educational dangers of the time. Australian universities largely were not.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, You need to decolonise your mind.

THE WOKE COLONY OF THE MIND RADICALISES KNOWLEDGE

When the idea of colonisation is transplanted into Western liberal democracies, it demands a purge of the Enlightenment inheritance itself.

Universalism, evidence, the possibility of knowledge independent of the knower’s… pic.twitter.com/3xxCSFRABJ

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) July 30, 2026