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Josh Szeps

Brisbane Times

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Liberalism’s like the soccer referee on the sidelines not playing to win

Liberalism’s like the soccer referee on the sidelines not playing to win

Liberal-minded folks have failed. We got so obsessed with presiding over the match that we came to see ourselves more as referees than as players on...

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Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Mainstream politicians must stop dodging the culture questions

The political elite’s refusal to acknowledge demographic and economic realities has driven the electorate into the arms of populists.

26.06.2026 20

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Listen up Strayans, I’m a unifier, not divisive like Pauline

Strayans are not pitted against foreigners. The mob we’re pitted against is each other.

12.06.2026 20

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Mullahs have Trump over oil barrel. Iran deal could be worse than Obama

Imagine knowing the exact date by which the other guy has to end the conflict and get petrol prices down, or he faces electoral annihilation.

02.05.2026 20

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

We need to flip the script on NDIS incentivising disabilities

Instead of rewarding psychological fragility, our government must stop incentivising young Australians to medicalise everyday struggles and anxieties.

17.04.2026 20

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Easter isn’t cancelled, we’re just confusing faith with culture

Stripping festivals of religious rhetoric out of respect to minority groups denies our cultural heritage. Make this weekend about optimism, not dogma.

02.04.2026 60

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

A 4-point national plan to save us from the AI apocalypse

Rome didn’t fall because its engineers miscalculated the tensile strength of aqueducts. Countries fail when they cannot manage social, political or...

20.03.2026 40

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Identity, not economy, stupid, defines our mosaic politics these days

The ballyhoo around America’s Iran campaign and Britain’s byelection is a glimpse into our future and the forces shaping the new hodgepodge...

06.03.2026 30

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

Festival tolerance of intolerance sends conversations off the rails

Instead of believing that ideas are strengthened by rational debate, much of our media and our online spaces behave as if ideas deserve to be...

20.02.2026 20

Financial Review

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 30

WA Today

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 30

The Age

Josh Szeps

What kind of Australia do we want to be? Let’s stop dodging the hard questions

The Bondi massacre is a tipping point. Now, confronting serious points of tension is a precondition for sustaining a successful multicultural society.

19.12.2025 30

Brisbane Times

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 30

WA Today

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 20

The Age

Josh Szeps

The dangerous logic behind the killing of Charlie Kirk

Political extremism isn’t caused by other people saying things you don’t like. It’s caused by those people having no constructive way to air...

15.09.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 20

WA Today

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 20

The Age

Josh Szeps

My grandmother fled the Holocaust. Now it’s time for Jews to abandon Israel

Until Israeli politics can radically reorient itself, it’s time to construct a vision of Jewishness that’s independent of the state that pretends...

05.06.2025 40

Brisbane Times

Josh Szeps