Features Australia

King Kevin through the back door

24 January 2020 10:00 pm

Are the politicians planning to crown one of their own?

Sacha Baron Cohen’s brilliant new comic device

18 January 2020 9:00 am

Sacha Baron Cohen’s recent anti-defamation league speech was quite a performance, even by his standards. In shrill, bordering on hysterical…

Gastrointestinal disease, climate change and a republic

18 January 2020 9:00 am

Whenever something adverse  happens these days, the event will more likely than not be attributed to,  or associated with, the…

Something smells fishy at JCU

18 January 2020 9:00 am

Do you remember the shocking scientific study about how baby fish in our polluted oceans now actually prefer eating plastic…

Countering disasters

18 January 2020 9:00 am

The near hysterical insistence by green groups that Australia’s undoubtedly very bad bushfire season is the result of man-made climate…

The science of bushfires is settled (part 1)

18 January 2020 9:00 am

If there were an academy award for the most histrionic response to Australia’s bushfires, it would be hard to go…

The science of bushfires is settled (part 2)

18 January 2020 9:00 am

Have you noticed how chaotic and wasteful eucalypts are? They have branches that grow in all directions and lengths and…

Keep an eye out for Israel Derangement Syndrome

18 January 2020 9:00 am

I am not a psychiatrist, but I’ve observed a kind of psychosis in far-left activists of the West who claim…

Alice in Wokeland

18 January 2020 9:00 am

‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it…

The doctor won’t see you now

11 January 2020 9:00 am

The ‘cancel culture’ is becoming more pronounced among doctors, highlighting the leftist drift of the profession. The latest worrying example…

Culpable negligence? Or criminal?

11 January 2020 9:00 am

What were the most important issues facing our politicians as we moved into spring? If we pause for a moment…

Bushfire of the vanities

11 January 2020 9:00 am

‘You are literally evil. Dante has a level for you… Now I know that you’re the type who would laugh…

Whipping boy

11 January 2020 9:00 am

Prime Minister Scott Morrison had a nerve taking a break at the end of last year and leaving the Left…

Business/Robbery etc

11 January 2020 9:00 am

A brave new decade for Australian free enterprise under a business-friendly Coalition government?  If only! Already there are concerns about…

Thank God for tide gauges

11 January 2020 9:00 am

Between 1764 and 1767 William Hutchison, a mariner who was then Harbour Master at Liverpool in England, carefully recorded the…

Boris’s great moral victory

11 January 2020 9:00 am

Had Jeremy Corbyn become Prime Minister then nothing would have been learned from the sacrifice and defeat of Hitler and…

Disaster’s long march through the institutions

11 January 2020 9:00 am

Derelict thinking throughout central and local body government and indeed all our management (including academic) areas, is now recognised as…

You say ‘diversity’. I hear quotas

21 December 2019 9:00 am

Ever wonder where all this talk of ‘diversity’ started? Well, it actually dates back some four decades to a 1978…

Summer books

21 December 2019 9:00 am

The year has been an odd one for books, with some trying to make sense of the political landscape and…

Lighting bushfires

21 December 2019 9:00 am

The recent tragic bushfires reignited the argument about global warming – the science is settled – and burnt the Green-Left…

The Kurds troubled way

21 December 2019 9:00 am

Pictures of Kurdish women fighters alongside men surprised many in the West and the October withdrawal of American forces from…

Jesus of Palestine?

21 December 2019 9:00 am

You are in a tizz. Christmas is just around the corner and you can’t think of the right present for…

Humbling hills

21 December 2019 9:00 am

Hidden in the spectacular rugged mountains of the far north Flinders Ranges at Arkaroola is a climate story written in…

Trump’s re-election is crucial

21 December 2019 9:00 am

Show trials, where the accused have no rights and guilt is predetermined, are integral to communist and Nazi regimes. They…

RAP artists of the ABC

14 December 2019 9:00 am

Our household switches on ABC TV at 6pm and checks how long it takes to sight an Aboriginal-identifying Australian. Typically,…