We are only half-reconciled
Senator Pat Dodson, often called the ‘father of reconciliation’, said last week that political leaders had failed to reconcile with…
Will Hong Kong be the spark for a wider revolt?
Hong Kong demonstrations are the fuse, and many in the Beijing dictatorship – those who know the history of revolutions…
All you need to know this week
Melbourne City Council, not to be outdone by Sydney Mayor Clover Moore’s declaration of a Climate Emergency plans to declare…
No knockout left hook from Mueller
The question I hurled several times at my TV during the six-hour-long Mueller hearing at the House Judiciary Committee yesterday…
Labor won’t find it Albaneasy
Eating soup with your right hand when you are naturally left handed is very difficult; you’re bound to spill some.…
Where the division of identity politics gets you
It was Labor’s political owl Graham Richardson, who, just a couple of weeks before the event, was promoting his presence…
Free speech, kicking føcking faces in and why Labor can’t be trusted on freedom of religion
The Greens candidate for the south Sydney seat of Barton, Connor Parissis, has been exposed for hurling abuse at Christians…
Shorten smiles
We’ve had a concentrated dose of Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten of late as they race for the Lodge, throwing…
Character building
Having fired off his first challenge in paragraph one (‘Read every word of this book, but don’t believe a word…
Jim Molan’s second surge?
In front of over 300 enthusiastic supporters at Balgowlah RSL today, New South Wales Senator Jim Molan made the case…
Why does a good bloke like Tony Abbott attract such vile enemies?
All those anonymously plastered up posters of Tony Abbott around his electorate of Warringah defaced with the c word, among…
Time to test catastrophist candidates’ ‘end is nigh’ pie in the sky
Candidates such as Zali Steggall in Warringah are campaigning on fear of catastrophic climate change. She wants to save the…
If one scientist was enough for Einstein…
How many scientists do you need to demonstrate to policymakers in words they can understand that CO2 is not a…
It’s the stupid, economy
Trust Labor to get it arse about. Bill Clinton famously used the mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid.” to win the…
The Tasmanian yacht murder: a groundbreaking new appeal
In a historic decision to grant Sue Neill-Fraser leave to appeal against her 2010 murder conviction, Justice Brett of Tasmania’s…
Death on the Derwent: a new witness cries foul
In as emotional 60 Minutes interview last night, Meaghan Vass told the truth. ‘The objective evidence backs it up,’ as…
What do Justice Kavanaugh, Cardinal Pell and this man have in common?
The following note was sent to me on Saturday, March 2, 2019, by a man whose life has been damaged…
Undercurrents
Former Melbourne detective Colin McLaren’s cold case book into the 2009 disappearance of Bob Chappell and the 2010 conviction of…
Everything you always wanted to know about socialism but were too woke to ask
It is the greatest, most tragic of ironies that those on the political Left, especially America’s election hopefuls such as…
unPresidented idiocy from the anti-Trump brigade
‘Not my President!’ can be heard echoing across the American leftscape, two years after Donald Trump’s inauguration, interspersed with ‘Let’s…
Just whose Palestine would Labor recognise?
How can some leading Australian politicians be so misguided and so wrong-headed as to call for the recognition of a…
Thugs welcome, bring guns
The news is broadcast far and wide: California is a safe haven for foreign criminals, complete with instant welfare benefits…
Robert Mueller’s poisoned chalice
How would you feel, having spent almost two years and over $US30 million dollars, trying to prove that Donald Trump’s…
Cooling on climate catastrophe
No, 97 per cent of scientists do not agree on climate change. In fact, as climate writer Andy West’s new…
An incontrovertible truth (or two)
My address to the Climate Change Conference, Katowice, Poland, December 2 – 14, 2018: Special greetings to Al Gore Al,…
