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Trump unshackles Australia Day

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Donald Trump's actions have inspired Australians to reclaim Australia Day
 

Great things happened this week. Donald Trump multitasked his way into office as the liberator of Western culture, and The World According to Rowan Dean went back on air. It’s as if all my Christmases have come at once and corporate Australia can once again utter the words ‘Merry Christmas’ without choking on their hypocrisy.

Best of all, Trump’s first salvos fired at Woke ideology have unshackled Australia Day. The Wokerati won’t be able to hold back the tide now.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

Happy Australia Day holiday everyone. Today is the day to celebrate Australia, and Australianness, and Michael de Percy clearly thinks Donald Trump should be made an honorary Australian for reminding us that patriotism and defending one’s country’s values are once again a matter for pride, not the shame imposed on ordinary Australians by the wokerati like this year’s incongruous Australia Day AC, Megan Davis.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Trump unshackles Australia Day.

JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia

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JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy is not a far stretch from rural and regional Australia.

I read JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy years before he was popular. In fact, I bought his book while I was in Shanghai in 2018. It turns out it was the most unlikely of places to buy the book – a country where his forthcoming role as Vice President of the United States is unlikely to garner support for his background. But for me, Hillbilly Elegy was an American version of my own upbringing (sans the drugs), and when Vance was announced as the next Vice-President of the United States, I immediately saw Trump’s reasoning.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:
Meanwhile, Michael de Percy looks down the track, to 2028 and beyond. He is impressed by the new Vice-President, JD Vance, arguing that ‘he represents the American equivalent of the Anzac spirit’. Vance, according to de Percy, has political and philosophical values very much akin to the Australian character and mindset, and we can be grateful he is the dauphin to Donald Trump’s sun king.
My latest in The Spectator Australia, JD Vance is the best succession plan for Australia.

Housing catastrophe? Beware the government with a vision for the people

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Does Gen Z have all the answers to our housing problem?

A recent newspaper article asked university students how they would solve the current housing crisis. The article suggested that we were heading towards a housing ‘catastrophe’, but Gen Z had the answer. However, an economist mate of mine pointed to the HILDA data and suggested people found it harder to pay their rent or their mortgage in the early 2000s than today. Never let a good political ‘narrative’ get in the way of social engineering. It’s hard, but hardly a catastrophe.

Writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

We hear a lot about the housing crisis from the nation’s young people, but, as Michael de Percy writes today, it has always taken a lot of work and sacrifice to acquire property. ‘I have had two mortgaged houses, and home ownership is something I prioritise over almost everything else.’ Wanting the government to provide housing is a pattern of thought we need to be very careful of because we all know what happens when private property rights are devalued.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Housing catastrophe? Beware the government with a vision for the people.

Disinformation and the tyranny of officialdom

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Tony Abbott meeting Australian troops at Exercise Talisman Soldier in 2015 [Public Domain]

Tony Abbott recently warned us that ‘conservatives must resist [the] tyranny of officialdom’.

This proved timely, as I’ve just experienced unelected and anonymous bureaucrats at the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) publicly endorsing the view that my political opinion constituted ‘disinformation’.

After I urged conservative voters not to splinter the conservative vote at the coming election, the AEC endorsed the labelling of my political opinion as "disinformation" even though what I had to say was not according to their own definition... This is my response.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

As he writes, Michael de Percy is a political scientist. Electoral systems are his business. He made a public statement of the bleeding obvious: because Labor benefits more from Greens and other Left preferences, the higher the Coalition’s primary vote means the better Peter Dutton’s chance of rolling Anthony Albanese. Determined to protect the myth that all preferences matter, the Australian Electoral Commission accused our resident Bearded Wonder of political disinformation. There is something very wrong when unelected officials themselves spout disinformation to ‘combat’ what they deem misinformation – and we dodged a huge bullet late last year, when legislation to entrench such madness was voted down in the Senate.

Meanwhile, writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

How much power should the AEC have over the conversation? At some point they elected themselves as Australia’s digital police, suffocating Twitter and Facebook with their ‘disinformation’ labels. Well, Michael de Percy isn’t very happy with them, referring to the ‘tyranny of officialdom’.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Disinformation and the tyranny of officialdom.

Our Anglican tradition, and a bit with a possum

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St George's Anglican Church in Lisbon

As I prepared to write this article, I went to pour a glass of wine. When I returned to my study, my television had turned itself on. In a black and white movie, the actor was playing a violin, surrounded by children singing, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. I immediately retold the story to my local padre, an Anglican priest and army chaplain who leads our RSL services. He remarked that it was clearly a sign that I must not be a doubter and that I must tell my story truly and well.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Our Anglican tradition, and a bit with a possum.

How to ensure Labor wins the next election

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Splintering the vote will undo Menzies’ legacy

The outcome of elections has little to do with supporters of the major parties. Historically, the party that forms government is decided by those who defect from the Coalition. Those who move further left remain within the radical Labor or Greens camps. Unlike the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) of the 50s and 60s, it is unlikely that left-leaning groups would preference the Coalition. This means that those conservatives who move away from the Coalition effectively hand government to Labor.

Labor governments are much like the Teals and other left-leaning independents. They rarely win on first preferences. In practice, Labor governments do not receive a mandate, especially where first preference votes are concerned. The preferential voting system means that deviations in voters’ party loyalties, particularly on the right, helps Labor to win government.

Writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

Speaking of the election, Michael de Percy brings a rather controversial opinion to the table, arguing that we risk undoing Menzies’ legacy if the conservative vote is split between minor parties on the right.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, How to ensure Labor wins the next election.

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