The Voice would rhyme
There’s a pub somewhere in the Aussie outback which displays a worn and fraying sign: ‘Free beer tomorrow.’ The larrikin…
What does reconciliation look like?
Reconciliation. The word is used almost automatically, especially in the context of the arguments about the Voice referendum. It sounds…
A backdoor revolution?
‘Albanese is convinced the Voice will pass,’ writes Dennis Shanahan in The Australian. If so, the consequential conclusion of the…
Post-referendum blues
Come the referendum and the Voice will be dead or alive. But the shouting will continue. Post-referendum Australia will have…
Play hardball and stop the carnage
The Western alliance against the Russian Federation’s Ukraine invasion is characterised by soft leather shoes, white shirts, diplomatic suits, and…
Democracy or minocracy?
If democracy is defined by majority rule, Australia is not a democracy; it’s a minocracy. The current Labor government attracted…
Tenants vs Landlords – a dystopian future?
As I travelled from Here-and-now to There-and-how along the Troublesome Track, I passed a new hospital on the outskirts of…
Australia’s right to be intolerant of intolerance
Why is Australian democracy so overly, dangerously tolerant as to seem craven and weak, as it watches the ignorant aggro…
Xi is not foolish enough to invade Taiwan (we hope)
Let’s be realistic … if counterintuitive. Despite the many illustrious commentators and foreign affairs specialists warning and worrying in the…
Warming the till: preachers of the apocalypse make billions
Political agenda dressed in the lab coat of science
Marxism is ‘so’ 2022
‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ is the famous Karl Marx put-down, which he wrote in 1843 and which…
Setting fire to the climate straw man
As the inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism hit home with our very own energy crisis, Australians are entitled…
A belligerent Voice?
To paraphrase the awkward words of Joe Biden, ‘The Nationals ain’t black … they’re not voting for the Voice.’ Biden’s…
Pull up! Pull up!
The test pilot was the fourth to try and figure out why the new plane kept crashing. The previous three…
After Biden beat Obama
Now that Donald Trump has declared his candidacy for the US presidency in the 2024 election, it is relevant to…
Who voted for wealth redistribution to save the planet?
Politicians of all stripes and in all Western countries have been obediently parroting the official IPCC line that Climate Change…
The case of the missing red wave
What follows is conjecture, not evidence. But there is no way anyone can dispute it. So here goes. The US…
The evidence is not ‘in’
It might take a catastrophe to stop politicians (and other cohorts) making assertions to justify consequential decisions without evidence –…
Confessions of a 10-year-old revolutionary
As a 10-year-old young ‘pioneer’ in communist-controlled Hungary, I hated the red kerchief I was forced to wear under threat…
Are you technically stupid? Check the Third Basic Law
Qualifying for the 3rd Basic Law of Human Stupidity is effortless for some, especially when they talk about the old…
It’s the politics, stupid
When US President Joe Biden said ‘we don’t have much time’ at the UN National Assembly on September 21, 2022,…
Climate Change 101
With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (foolishly) declaring it ‘entirely appropriate’ last Sunday that King Charles III should continue advocating for…
Show us the evidence, Minister
The climate alarmism of Parliament is starting to melt
Grievance politics will never reconcile
Recognition, reconciliation, closing the gap, a Voice … all bundled into a grievance package squeezing the guilt out of contemporary…
Burning biomass fuels climate stupidity
Some of us have always known that climate hysteria causes malfunctions in the brain. (The precise medical term is ‘Subject…
