Trump

12 January 2021

Donald Trump has been banned from Twitter as well as Facebook, TikTok, and Snapchat. This came after a violent mob stormed the United States Capitol last week, desecrating key symbols of the republic. Many are celebrating the social media bans. But, just because the companies can remove Trump does not necessarily mean they should. There is merit in discussing the

6 November 2020

A few days ago Alexander Downer wrote on these pages that if he were American he would have voted for Donald Trump – but through gritted teeth. My view is different from Downer. I would have voted for Trump eagerly and enthusiastically. You could argue that in 2016 there were arguments for both Clinton and Trump. Not this time. In 2020, the

5 November 2020

There’s some grieving from Gideon on the Podcast as indications are that Joe Biden will be sworn in as President, though his fabled ‘blue wave’ failed to eventuate. Trump confounded the polls and energised a mass base of Americans in a way that suggests his political legacy will live on. Is this at the expense of the right’s traditional free

7 October 2020

Trump has tested positive for COVID-19 less than one month before the US election. What will this mean for the politics surrounding the upcoming election and could this revelation play for or against Trump’s faltering campaign? (1:59-21:45) Trump has also received a kind of ‘cocktail’ of medication in response to contracting the virus, not all of which is available to

26 November 2019

“President Trump’s red tape reduction agenda has delivered a once-in-a-generation economic boom in the United States,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Today the Institute of Public Affairs released a research report which analyses the Trump Administration’s red tape reduction agenda. The report finds a $31 billion USD ($45 billion

8 November 2019

President Trump is keeping a promise he made during the 2016 election campaign to get the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Australia must do the same. In a speech to the Lowy Institute in October, Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned of the dangers of “negative” globalism; which “coercively seeks to impose a mandate from an often ill-defined

12 October 2018

Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court is a win for women. It is a win for the rule of law, which all peaceful and just societies are built upon. Central to the rule of law is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. This evolved from Clause 39 of Magna Carta and remains the central pillar of justice in

8 March 2018

Maybe those people that oppose coal should go without it for a day. Good luck with that. Here is the breakdown of coal and wind energy generation in Australia from this morning: The New York Times, desperate to write a hit piece about President Trump’s tax cuts, couldn’t find anyone that was actually going to be worse off – so they had to make

22 December 2017

Workers in America are set to enjoy massive Christmas bonuses thanks to Donald Trump cutting the business tax rate. In one of the biggest tax cuts in history, the business rate in the US is set to drop from 35 to 21 per cent. AT & T, the world’s largest telecommunications company, will give each of its 200,000 US workforce a $1000 bonus. This flies

21 December 2017

“Australia must cut its high business tax rate so that Australian workers, consumers, and shareholders can keep more of their earned income,” said Daniel Wild, research fellow with the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. President Trump is expected today to sign into law a reduction in the United States’ corporate tax rate from 35 per cent