Alexandra Marshall

Heartless Woolworths to start sacking unvaccinated staff

26 February 2022 3:16 pm

While many countries across the world have ditched Covid health orders entirely – declaring the pandemic over and the Omicron…

Bandit Bandt and grave robbin’ Albo

22 February 2022 9:00 am

It would take a certain kind of malevolence to stand up during a pandemic and float the idea of taxing…

The greater good - or a grander evil?

9 February 2022 4:00 am

Every time I hear some middling news reporter parrot ‘for the greater good’ in reference to whatever the next absurd…

Serbia’s revenge: Rio Tinto pays for Morrison’s hubris

28 January 2022 4:00 am

There may be no ‘official’ connection, but it’s impossible not to side-eye the sudden decision by the Serbian government to…

Did Australia buy tanks to protect Taiwan?

19 January 2022 9:00 am

Australia splashed out $3.5 billion on 120 specially re-enforced US military tanks and armoured vehicles, causing prominent political reporters to…

There’s nothing more frightening than a woman in politics

8 January 2022 12:00 pm

It is difficult to argue that women are the less capable gender when they have spent the last ten million…

Russia is empire-building while Australia sleeps

4 January 2022 12:00 pm

While Australia kept itself busy arguing about which politician to box up and airfreight to the COP26 snore-fest, Russia spent…

Sweden puts vaccine passports under our skin

28 December 2021 11:00 am

Swedish startup Epicenter has created a microchip to store Covid vaccine passports. The device is inserted under the skin on…

Triassic Park

18 December 2021 9:00 am

Come Christmas, it’s not only Santa lurking in the chimney

It’s been a rough start for freedom in Perrottet’s NSW

16 December 2021 11:00 am

One of the first acts of the New South Wales Police Force on ‘Freedom Day’ was to cancel the ‘Freedom…

Sex sells – or does it?

13 December 2021 6:33 pm

Everyone knows that ‘sex sells’. Forget woke advertising campaigns full of gender-creative pronouns, complex quota-ticking spreadsheets, and the latest ‘the-world-is-melting’…

‘Not an organ donor anymore’ trends after vaccine mandate

8 December 2021 4:36 pm

#NotAnOrganDonorAnymore has been trending on social media for the last few days after Australians began taking themselves off the organ…

Morrison wades blindly into the Solomon Islands

4 December 2021 2:00 pm

Civil chaos in the Solomon Islands has created an intricate geopolitical problem for Scott Morrison. Anti-government protests turned violent last…

Notre Damn

1 December 2021 9:00 am

If anything could tempt a vengeful god out of silence, it might be the unholy restoration plans for Notre Dame. …

This is a restoration, not a revolution

22 November 2021 4:00 am

Before the oppressive communist regime fell, the USSR was plagued by months of protests. Hundreds of thousands filled the cities…

A cheap bottle of Perrottet

15 November 2021 4:00 am

Yikes.  There are political mistakes, and then there is Dominic Perrottet.  What was tentatively hoped to be a stroke of genius…

So long and thanks for all the krill

5 November 2021 4:00 am

China is an eco-serial killer.  When it’s not poisoning, re-landscaping or using Asia’s waterways to blackmail its neighbours, the Communist…

Liberty is a mental illness?

27 October 2021 4:00 am

Academics are always lauding their moral superiority over us, but how often do we inspect what they think?  They are the…

Freedom Day? You have a barcode on your forehead

12 October 2021 4:00 am

You wouldn’t let a premier tattoo a barcode on your forehead, so why do we submit to QR check-ins?  “Those…

Gladys Berejiklian is not a victim

6 October 2021 6:58 pm

Not everyone buys into the whole, ‘poor Gladys betrayed by a dodgy boyfriend’ line. No one should…  As Premier, Gladys…

The bald and the bonkers

5 October 2021 2:00 pm

How quickly we forget.  Gladys Berejiklian had her ‘sliding doors’ moment with Matt Kean a year into her premiership.  Kean…

Matt Kean: not as bad as Labor?

3 October 2021 4:45 pm

Attempting to pick the next premier of New South Wales is a bit like working through a packet of jellybeans.…

China’s sandcastles in the sea

29 September 2021 4:00 am

Afghanistan sits in the middle of everyone’s infrastructure projects like a pigeon shitting on a chessboard. The world has two options: it…

Passport to hell

21 September 2021 5:21 pm

Let’s be frank.  If a vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission, there is no scientific basis for a vaccine…

Covid: the New World Order

14 September 2021 4:00 am

Something dangerous has happened to Australia.  We have allowed the interests of ‘collective health’ to erase individual human rights.  It…