America’s wildfires: products of the policies that left us so badly burnt
First Australia in the first months of the year — and now the western parts of the United States. Australian…
China’s Commiebrige Analytica
China’s Overseas Key Individual Database leak. Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians…
What’s a hammer and sickle on a campaign office wall among friends?
Be careful what you put on your office walls – or at least where you take your photographs: A small icon…
Ten good news stories from 2020
2020. What a year. As someone has recently remarked on Twitter, I can’t believe we stayed until midnight and cheered…
Seven rules for migrants
Many of us move throughout our lives, some frequently. Sometimes we don’t have much choice about the timing or the…
Yes, there’s a pandemic, but we have pushed our public finances past the point of no return
The perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” — Treasurer Josh Frydenberg –…
The D10: decoupling from China
God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in 2020, so whatever there is deserves wider…
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be oppressed in this racist hell
As many have remarked over the years, it is somewhat of a mystery why millions of people from the developing…
It’s 2020, so everything is racist. Especially at the ABC
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian ABC journalist, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and…
Wasting your money: wattle the government think of next
Firstly, a solution in search of a non-existent problem; not surprisingly a brain fart of that most immaterial of prime…
Our trendies can afford to sneer at America and democracy. Funny what happens in the developing world…
Dalia Research, the Alliance for Democracies and Rasmussen International have released the results of the Democracy Perception Index, the largest study…
Why I am a racist*
* And so, most likely, are you** ** According to the new nomenclature. I was born in another time and…
End the Antifa terror now
President Trump’s decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist organisation is long overdue. Whether you call them a terrorist organisation…
Let’s create Hong Kong II in Australia
We could have done it 31 years ago, after the People’s Liberation Army’s tanks liberated thousands of protesters from their…
How we’ve cooled on China
Welcome to the political chaos theory –- or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces…
A story stranger than any coronavirus conspiracy…
Never mind a boring terrestrial virus – what would happen to our planet if aliens from another planet ever make…
Why the left just love a crisis
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”. This short and catchy dictum was articulated by Rahm Emanuel, former Obama…
Love in the time of corona
Giovanni Boccaccio wrote “The Decameron” in the aftermath of the Black Death pandemic of 1348, which carried away somewhere around…
Coronavirus and why we need globalisation insurance
What has the coronavirus virus wrought? In some ways it is a perfect weapon: it doesn’t kill that many people…
How the great toilet paper panic has made asses of us all
This afternoon, on the way back from the gym, I popped into my local Coles to get some fruit and…
The beginning of the end for us in Afghanistan – and the beginning of just what?
Not the end, but perhaps the beginning of the end: the United States and the Taliban have signed a preliminary…
Paying Bernie’s bills
In the magical socialist world of Bernie Sanders, everything is free – which means that someone else is paying for…
Bloomberg: Donald Trump’s own Mini Mike?
The entry and the rapid rise of Mike Bloomberg in the Democratic primaries is something to behold. The Democrats at…
Don’t mention the pandemic
The Woke Health Organisation – sorry, the World Health Organisation – continues to provide non-stop entertainment as the Coronavirus spreads.…
Sorry doomsayers, but the science says there’s now no climate emergency
It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism…
