If I were as brave as Jacinta

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

This week, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price demonstrated her credentials as a potential Australian Prime Minister. She is a member of the Country Liberal Party, so there is no reason she cannot lead the senior party of the federal Liberal-National Coalition, nor is there any real impediment, other than convention, to a Prime Minister also being a Senator. To be sure, it would be awkward to lead a government from across the hall, but there is no actual legal impediment. And given Senator Price’s courage, she certainly has the fortitude to make it work. And she would be a political leader because of sheer competence rather than any deference to intersectionality. Which leads me to my ‘sliding doors’ moment – what would I do if I were as brave as Senator Price?

Here is my latest article in The Spectator Australia's Flat White, "If I were as brave as Jacinta".

If I were as brave as Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, I would tell my story and how the elites’ ideas about Aboriginality represent only one side of the coin that was cast over 200 years ago in Australia...https://t.co/4HiDnfLWBv

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) September 17, 2023

Australia has created its own energy crisis powered by green-left ideology

We've created our own energy crisis through green-left ideology

 

Labor’s energy policy won’t reduce our energy bills by $275 in 2025. When questioned about this promise in 2021, Prime Minister Albanese replied, ‘I don’t think, I know. I know because we have done the modelling.’ The ABC’s ‘promise check’ tells us this election promise is ‘stalled’ while admitting that the energy price increases blamed on war in Ukraine evident by February 24, 2022 did not stop the Albanese government from repeating the promised $275 reduction until May 18, 2022. Renewables have been promoted as the panacea for reducing energy bills, but Australia is amid an energy crisis driven by the Albanese government’s ideological stance on renewables.

Here is my latest article in The Spectator Australia's Flat White, "Australia's ideologically-driven energy crisis".

Australia's energy crisis - where families and businesses are struggling to pay power bills which have nearly doubled - is entirely the creation of government ideology.

We don't have a resource crisis, we have a Parliament full of Kamikaze politicians.https://t.co/0LclAczkjz

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) August 22, 2023

My Local Council Has Lost the Plot

No kerb and gutter in Gunning, but we have drag queen readings for kids.

 

One great thing about Australia’s Federation is its system of checks and balances. In addition to a Westminster-style separation of powers (between the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary), we also have the Washington-style division of powers (between the national government, the states, and local councils). Our ‘Washminster’ arrangements help guard against what Alexis de Tocqueville referred to as the ‘tyranny of the majority’. When it works, it works well. But increasingly, local governments are neglecting their primary roles and focusing on issues beyond their ambit.

Here is my latest article in The Spectator Australia's Flat White, "Local councils are becoming fiefdoms obsessed with identity politics".

Out of control local councils - the ones that declare 'climate emergencies' while failing to fix potholes - are giving your money to the #YES campaign.

These social justice fiefdoms consider themselves to sit above democracy.https://t.co/eNPobDj1Gu

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) August 10, 2023