We didn’t want Airbus Albo, but did we need him?
Around 32 per cent of Australian voters gave Labor their first preference in 2022. No ringing endorsement, despite a decade…
Outsourcing politics, killing democracy, fomenting revolution
Robert Jenrick, in the London Daily Telegraph, fears that the inevitable Starmer government in the United Kingdom will enact a ‘second…
Four-year terms: an outsider perspective
Australia’s current Prime Minister has suggested that Commonwealth Parliaments should go four years between elections, instead of the current three.…
Anthony Albanese, cosplayer
Imagine my delight, in opening up a recent Catholic Weekly, only to find TIA (The Inevitable Albo) on the front page.…
Woolworths doubles down
Corporations these days do much to engender the absence of any respect of their customers. And they do not care.…
Winston’s moment
The Shaky Isles have a new government. At last. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day in Hawke’s…
The cranky country
At a recent packed-out ‘No’ event in Ballina (New South Wales), Jacinta Price received a standing ovation on arrival, and…
The road to Calvary
A presentation by the estimable Fr Tony Percy, until recently Vicar-General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn, on the Australian…
Liberal heads in the sand
There is one thing you can always be sure of, the ‘thinkers’ in and behind the Liberal Party never ever consider…
The Covid Royal Commission is nowhere to be seen
Australia’s Prime Minister is known for emoting and for pursuing nothingburger public policy issues (the Voice, the republic, climate emergencies,…
Tucker Carlson, American hero
On a day when we remember fallen heroes who gave their lives in useless wars, and still do, we have…
The eunuch premier
The Eunuch Premier is no more. On Saturday last, the Liberals’ fourth NSW Premier in twelve years was dispatched from…
The fact-checker industrial complex
I tuned in the other day to an excellent webinar titled Prayer and Pushback organised by the redoubtable Pat Mesiti. It was a…
The prostitutes of Davos
Once upon a time, Davos was a village in the Swiss Alps known for not much at all. Suddenly it…
Post-Covid and extremely merry
Is it just me or is everyone getting pretty merry about the festive season this year? First, we had the…
Labor’s absurd censure of ScoMo
Following the inquiry by Judge Virginia Bell, Anthony Albanese has done the obvious political thing and moved to censure the…
Seven schools of Covid denialism
Or, ‘How I avoid any responsibility for lockdowns and mandates’
Covid mea culpa class
Nothing gets Covid realists crankier than the non-recognition of Covid crimes committed by governments. We crave Covid accountability more than…
Australia’s pandemic fascism
This story might equally be called Covid’s Original Sin. Or, perhaps, Australia – Barnaby’s Part in Its Downfall (with apologies to Spike Milligan).…
We reap what we sow
You reap what you sow, as St Paul once said. Thanks to Israel Folau, we know that St Paul said…
Fascism pretending to be manners
Notoriously, the very brief tenure as Liberal Party leader of Alexander Downer came to a shuddering halt in January 1995…
The closing of the Australian mind
The quietly resurrected Alan Tudge, now Shadow Education Minister in the freshly minted Opposition, probably hopes the Albanese government won’t…
Australia’s true ‘voiceless’
The Aboriginal bureaucracy, and possibly some Indigenous people themselves, have been agitating for a ‘Voice’. Surprisingly, these advocates think that…
The election and its discontents
So, the election has come and gone. It was a disappointing, loud, and ultimately vacuous show about nothing. It saw…
Saving the Liberal left?
Howard’s ‘broad church’ no longer exists
