President Trump strikes, saves the world

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Decisive, necessary. Will there be terrorists with nuclear weapons? Not on The Don's watch. 

Today’s US military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, authorised by President Donald Trump, is a global reckoning. This decisive action targeted key sites including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. The President gave the Iranian regime plenty of time to respond, but it was clear that religious bullies respect force and nothing else. Well, they got force.

The strikes, conducted by B-2 stealth bombers, were a technological response to a technological evil. A nuclear-armed Iran would be a catalyst for catastrophic proliferation, empowering terrorist proxies like the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah with unprecedented destructive potential. Iran’s refusal to allow UN inspectors unfettered access to its nuclear program, coupled with its ongoing attacks on Israel, left the United States with no choice but to act.

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

There’s only one story this morning that matters: Donald Trump and his Bunker Busting Bombers. In an impressive piece of instant analysis, Michael de Percy sums up what happened and what all this says about the wishy-washy stance of our Prime and Foreign Ministers. On the latter point, Michael’s elaborated in a follow-up article: we suggest reading them together, because they provide a good picture of what this says about how our government’s embarrassing all of us in by bestriding the barbed-wire fence.

My latest in The Spectator Australia, President Trump strikes, saves the world.

Land tax is communism

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The GST was meant to replace stamp duty. Instead, Labor want to tax your family home. Forever.

As the Treasurer looks to the guest list for the cabinet room-sized productivity roundtable to be held in August, it is clear the family home is on the hit list. Instead of owning your home, you will pay land tax, effectively rent, to the government forever. 

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Land tax is communism.


Jim Chalmers: the unsustainable Treasurer

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Treasurer Jim Chalmers at the National Press Club, 18 June 2025.

From the National Press Club: Today I had an opportunity to ask the Treasurer, Dr Jim Chalmers, a question on the sustainability of his budget. He admitted that it is not sustainable enough, or resilient enough, or enough already. It’s not good. I think he is shaping up to become Prime Minister. In the absence of a good Prime Minister, I reckon Jim Chalmers would do alright. Nobody could be worse than Elmer Thud.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

Michael de Percy had the chance to question the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, on critical things – such as defence spending – less than a day after Albanese was publicly embarrassed on the world stage at the G7. Considering the freshly signed trade deal with the UK, one might have thought that the Treasurer would have an answer ready to go… The better question, however, is if the Treasurer even understands how important the situation is. Michael was, shall we say, alarmed by the answer he received.

My question is here:

My latest in The Spectator Australia, Jim Chalmers: the unsustainable Treasurer.

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