How David Attenborough and the catastrophist crew have humanity wrong
“‘Humans are intruders’ and the natural world is better off without us, says Sir David Attenborough,” runs the Independent’s headline. It’s a…
The Taiwan test
Russia is massing troops on the borders of the Ukraine at the same time the Chinese are increasing their unauthorised…
Capitol Hill: call that a coup?
To understand how far short the Capitol Hill riot falls of any serious standard for insurrection one only needs to…
Google and Facebook should abandon Australian news
Twenty-two years ago this year I first published On Line Opinion. We beat Crikey into cyberspace by a month or…
This is the politics the left made – based on threats of power, not peaceful persuasion
I guess like me you’ve been more than a little shocked at the Republican “insurrection” in the United States. But…
Annastacia Palaszczuk’s arrogant Twits
A Twitter incident from Wednesday last week reveals a few interesting things about the Queensland state government and modern politics…
We’ll need to pay a higher defence premium under Biden
Since World War II Australia has kept secure by paying its premium on the United States-Australia Defence Alliance. This is…
Who’s going to win the Queensland election? It’s complicated
If polls really could foretell the future, rather than just being an imperfect model of the present, then the LNP should currently be cruising…
Five vital steps to restore confidence in corona case calculations
The calculation error in COVID-19 projections made by the Peter Doherty Institute and incorporated into the National Cabinet response revealed…
Want to fight back against weak woke coporates? There’s an app for that – or could be
Veteran culture commentator Mark Steyn exposed the Republican Party’s general lack of spine when it comes to the culture wars…
We are killing more people because of lockdown than we are saving
While it’s tempting, and even invigorating, to experience a shiver of schadenfreude at the resurgence of COVID-19 in Victoria on…
Here’s hoping ScoMo’s new consensus with the unions is not what it appears
Is Scott Morrison’s industrial reform agenda a serious attempt at industrial change, or is it #ScottyfromMarketing looking for a mechanism…
No, Prime Minister. We don’t need to go back to the Accord
PM Scott Morrison echoed Menzies when he claimed the last Australian election for the “quiet Australians” – the C21 equivalent…
Just what’s going on in Queensland politics?
Queensland’s recent local government elections, combined with two state by-elections, provide a window into what might happen at the next…
Flattening the curve or just muddling on?
We appear to have seven Australian governments that are paralysed, unable to decide whether they are really “flattening the curve”,…
Let’s hear it for the nation state
Congratulations to Boris Johnson. They’ve been comparing him to Churchill, and while it might be a little hyperbolic, this is…
Be strong, keep ‘young and free’
Almost one-third of the players in the State of Origin on Wednesday night refused to sing the national anthem because…
What was wrong with the polls?
Living with uncertainty is the thing most humans find most difficult. And while it’s virtually impossible to be certain even…
A case study: how energy policies kill jobs and business – and Labor will be worse
The fall into administration of Queensland company Claypave, established as Rylance Colliery and Brickworks in Ipswich in the 1880s, points…
What’s a girl got to do to get elected nowadays?
I’m wondering what a girl named Gladys has got to do to get elected nowadays. Winning Sky News debates is…
‘Learnings’ for the lead up to Friday’s student strike for climate change
Here’s an idea for English and Philosophy teachers for this coming Friday, March 15. Why don’t you do some Socratic…
The banking royal commission we still need
I originally thought the Financial Services Royal Commission was unnecessary. Then I heard the evidence, and I changed my mind.…
Labor’s housing affordability mess: profit for the few, pain for the many
Labor’s two-pronged housing affordability package has them rowing the same boat in both directions, expending a lot of taxpayer dollars…
Twenty ideas for a Morrison government
When Bill Shorten lost the last election he did a victory lap around Australia. He knew that if he could…
Belling the cat on electricity
In an inversion of the social hierarchy of Yes Minister, it would appear that Australia has at least one courageous…
