Phil Shannon

More ABC silliness in the silly season

2 December 2024 10:42 am

It is officially the silly season during which people tend to wear funny red and green hats and have way…

Left, right, left, right, left

13 November 2024 3:36 am

Marching together to the beat of a populist drum?

Golf – the final patriarchal frontier

15 October 2024 11:13 am

Anika Wells, Australia’s Sports Minister, has come out swinging her heaviest club, opening a new front on the war against…

Extinction lecture event

18 September 2024 2:00 am

Adelaide University, one of the elite Group of Eight universities in Australia (and my alma mater in the 1970s pre-Woke…

Australia slowly retreats from vaccine mandates

30 July 2024 1:20 am

The retreat from Covid hysteria in Australia has been painfully slow and uneven. In one dispatch from the virus overreaction…

Refugees and rejectees: our border is wide open

18 July 2024 10:56 pm

Recent reports show a big uptick in asylum seekers, with some 2,300 would-be refugees mostly entering under cover of a…

Witchery witch-hunted by fashion activism

9 July 2024 3:00 am

Witchery is an Australian women’s fashion brand that has been popular since its founding in South Australia in 1970. It…

Pexels

Diversity disaster? Report laments stale, pale, male directors

30 June 2024 5:44 pm

The ABC, in its limitless Woke fashion, decided recently that the time is again ripe to take the old ‘corporate…

Australia’s ‘triple-demic’ of Covid, flu, and RSV – experts baffled

8 June 2024 2:04 pm

The Covid policy wizards are baffled again. In Australia, some 98 per cent of the population have had at least…

Aussie cash: redesigned $5 note goes Woke

6 May 2024 4:10 am

Well, that was predictable, as predictable as the sun rising the next morning, though not as welcome. With the late…

The Covid vaccine is dead! Long live the Covid vaccine…?!

29 April 2024 2:00 am

Did you know that four years after the Great Covid Pandemonium erupted, vaccine mandates are still being enforced in the…

The land that time (but not the government) forgot

18 April 2024 3:00 am

Australia’s vaccine regulator, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), is still determinedly operating a virus theme park which…

The Voice zombie lumbers on in South Australia

15 April 2024 2:00 am

It just can’t be killed, this Zombie thing called The Voice. In South Australia, despite two in every three citizens…

It can be so hard to find an honest cheater these days!

9 April 2024 3:40 am

Student cheating in Australia’s universities is back in the headlines – again. The national tertiary education regulator, the Tertiary Education Quality…

South Australian Voice flops with abysmal 8.7 per cent turnout

29 March 2024 7:22 pm

The South Australian First Nations Voice to Parliament, legislated by the Malinauskas state Labor government, has flopped ignominiously. This follows…

Not with a constitutional bang, but a legislated whimper: South Australia forces through Indigenous ‘Voice’

4 March 2024 2:00 am

Malinauskas ignores 61.4 per cent of South Australians who ‘No’ at the national referendum

Sorry? Who, us? What for?

24 February 2024 7:27 am

They were the divas of the pandemic bio-security theatre crowd in Australia, with their names set up in lights every…

The Covid show must go on!

24 January 2024 2:30 am

Like all other establishment institutions, the think-tank industry in Australia was wholly compliant with the official Covid narrative so it…

After the Thalidomide apology, where is the Covid vaccine apology?

13 December 2023 4:00 am

What a difference 61 years makes. In November 1962, thalidomide was withdrawn from use in Australia but only now has…

Last of the Covid midwits

17 November 2023 4:00 am

The ‘midwit’ really came into their own during Covid and what a curse on the world they all were, these…