What does Australia expect to gain by snubbing Trump?

Ignoring President Trump’s plea dishonours every Digger who fought beside Americans.

The Strait of Hormuz is the artery carrying one-fifth of the world’s oil. President Trump’s call for allied warships to protect it from Iranian threats was a test of resolve. Australia’s response was lazy and irresponsible. Refusing to send even a single vessel was to turn our back on the United States. Not just any ally, but the nation that has bled for us and with us, time and again.

In France, on the islands of the Pacific, in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan – even in Darwin – American blood has soaked the same battlefields as ours. Anzus rests on that shared sacrifice. Aukus, our most significant defence enabler in history, is the generational result of it.

Ignoring President Trump’s plea dishonours every Digger who fought beside Americans and signals to the world that Australia cannot be counted on when it matters. We’ve never been here before.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, What does Australia expect to gain by snubbing Trump?

The Strait of Hormuz is the artery carrying one-fifth of the world’s oil.

President Trump’s call for allied warships to protect it from Iranian threats was a test of resolve.

Australia’s response was lazy and irresponsible.

Refusing to send even a single vessel was to turn our… pic.twitter.com/fMHoZYVebL

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) March 19, 2026

Is Labor deliberately ruining us?

A crisis of Labor’s own making. Teach children self-reliance instead of entitlement.

From Myeongdong, Seoul: Across the road from me is the original Bank of Korea building, the nation’s central bank. It is now the Bank of Korea Money Museum. It has a computer that demonstrates the impact of economic events. If government spending increases, inflation increases. If employment increases, then inflation increases, and so on.

Surely Jim Chalmers knows all of this. If the government spends more on government jobs and puts the rest of the country on welfare, then you don’t need one of these computers anymore. Capitalism is gone and you are living in a socialist economy. You know, that repulsive economic system that never works?

Like many Australians, the RBA’s interest rate increase this week has me worried. We have the most socialist of Labor governments in charge, and an ineffectual opposition. The leadership changes in the Coalition haven’t eased the pain.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Is Labor deliberately ruining us?

Let’s stop pretending this is mere incompetence or bad luck.

It is my opinion that Labor has engineered our decline deliberately, not to govern but to dismantle the liberal democratic system that built the luckiest country on Earth.

Every major policy choice since 2022 has… pic.twitter.com/TClEkM1w19

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) March 18, 2026

What did I miss? Australia’s political week in fast-forward

Labor's scam racket is unravelling. Their type of kindness is weakness and it is ruining our economy.

Jim Chalmers’ kinder economy has turned a corner and crashed straight into a tree. Inflation expectations are spiking to 5.2 per cent in March. The highest in nearly three years. As it turns out, Chalmers not only did his thesis on Paul Keating, but he is Paul Keating.

The problem for Chalmers isn’t that he hit a tree … it’s that it was actually Chris Bowen’s woody nose, elongated by all the little climate fibs and Net Zero platitudes that got a bit creative with the truth. Who knew the Minister for Energy [Crises] was actually Pinocchio’s Aussie cousin? Bowen has left Chalmers T-boned and contemplating dragging our wrecked economy through a 30-point turn to get out.

My weekly column in The Spectator Australia, What did I miss? Australia’s political week in fast-forward.

I’ve been driving 500 km a day in a heavy vehicle, delivering bread to the Riverina area. This morning, 150 litres of diesel cost $380. Diesel’s shot up 90 cents in the last week.

Because of the war? I don’t think so.

It’s because generations of politicians decided we didn’t… pic.twitter.com/HRZEiXlUsM

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) March 14, 2026