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Warragamba Dam: the political yo-yo of failed water politics

12 May 2024 12:44 pm

Warragamba Dam is spilling again, but it didn’t have to be this way. There have been warnings for decades about…

Is there a plot afoot to get rid of Albo?

30 April 2024 11:25 pm

Speculation, of course, but Albanese is either uncommonly talented in the art of self-destruction, or Labor is getting ready to…

Oh no, don’t meme me!

28 April 2024 2:56 am

Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is terrified of memes. Specifically, Winnie-the-Pooh. Since July 2017, the harmless bear has…

Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident)

9 April 2024 12:17 pm

Since being offered a largely pointless and doomed-to-fail role as UN special envoy to Myanmar, the former Liberal Foreign Minister,…

Matt Kean’s opposition to nuclear borders on the absurd

7 April 2024 2:34 am

In the world of political irrelevancy, there are few people climbing higher, harder, and faster than New South Wales Shadow…

Busywork? UN Secretary-General António ‘global boiling’ Guterres appoints Julie Bishop as special envoy to Myanmar

7 April 2024 12:51 am

Australia’s political elite seem to have a knack for clawing their way into prestigious international bureaucracies. This time, it’s former…

Carbon Pawprints: North Korea has gone to the dogs, and so have environmentalists

27 March 2024 1:23 am

In 2020, the dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, ordered the confiscation of dogs owned by those living in the…

If the ABC reforms itself, would you watch it?

25 March 2024 10:09 pm

Kim ‘the Renaissance man’ Williams has promised to fix the national broadcaster

Voiceless in Victoria: farmers horrified by renewable energy fast-tracking

17 March 2024 9:30 am

‘It takes too long:’ Solar and wind farm blockers to be weeded out to fast-track renewable projects. That was the…

Scathing response to Adam Bandt’s private jet hypocrisy

12 March 2024 10:45 pm

How much does it cost to keep the leader of a minor, nature-loving, tree-hugging political party happy? Roughly $1 million,…

Renewable enthusiasts are panicking about Dutton’s genius nuclear plan

11 March 2024 8:33 pm

In recent days, headlines from Net-Zero-inclined publications have become increasingly unhinged. Why nuclear power is ‘madness on steroids’! Peter Dutton wonders when…

Australia Last: Albanese has billions for Asia, but nothing for you

9 March 2024 11:56 pm

Labor Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was proud to announce his $2 billion investment in Southeast Asia following recommendations from the…

Pity those who get between Poilievre and the Prime Minister

4 March 2024 1:22 pm

There’s a new form of savagery in politics, the kind that belongs on the Discovery Channel’s after 10 pm slot where you…

Solar ain’t gonna save us

18 February 2024 7:13 pm

Regardless of what I want, my phone keeps an eye out for trending stories in the world of Renewable energy.…

‘Article Pfizer’ – France to punish criticism of mRNA vaccines

17 February 2024 1:35 am

France, the nation that likes to boast about its approach to liberty and free speech, has passed a law through…

Jacinta Allan’s hypocrisy over Kanye West

11 February 2024 2:10 am

There are plenty of antisemites in the streets of Melbourne

Spy pigeon

6 February 2024 1:58 am

China’s super-secret ‘spy pigeon’ has been unmasked as a humble Taiwanese racing pigeon. So, a little less ‘Bond’ and a…

Labor cannot define ‘women’, but it’s offering them tax cuts

5 February 2024 1:00 am

When Labor’s Minister for Finance and Women, Katy Gallagher, alerted us to her intention to give women tax cuts, my…

Creepy e-bike graveyards

24 January 2024 2:00 am

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of e-bikes were photographed piling up in what has been unofficially dubbed, ‘China’s e-bike graveyard’. It…

Javier Milei: The Western world is in danger!

21 January 2024 12:42 am

Argentina’s President Javier Milei’s speech to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Meeting 2024. Today I am here to tell you…

Batsh*t crazy mice

19 January 2024 2:18 pm

We’re hearing that China is back in the lab, with scientists experimenting on a Covid strain (GX_P2V) that has returned a…

A month of Pride but no Australia Day

11 January 2024 4:10 pm

For months – not days – capital cities across Australia were wrapped in glitter and rainbows to service the feelings…

No one is indigenous to the Moon

9 January 2024 4:19 pm

The American-based Navajo Nation has raised an objection to the latest ‘space funeral’, calling for the mission to be delayed…

Tesla’s Skynet moment

31 December 2023 10:33 am

The news cycle dragged itself out of the Christmas hangover with headlines such as the Daily Mail’s: Tesla robot ATTACKS an…

The King’s Speech

26 December 2023 4:30 pm

Standing in front of a Christmas tree adorned with ornaments dedicated to sustainability, His Majesty King Charles III used every…