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Unreasonable
In the 1980s movie Rain Man, the autistic Dustin Hoffman reliably informed Tom Cruise that Qantas was the safest airline…
The Dummy
Not since Howard Carter risked the curse of the Pharaohs to plunder the pyramids a hundred years ago this month…
Covid amnesty, anyone?
Forgiveness is now officially on the Covid menu. The left-leaning Atlantic magazine in the US has called for a ‘pandemic…
The coal miner’s Diamonds
Gina Rinehart was correct to withdraw the extraordinarily generous $15 million she had donated to Netball Australia following a severe…
Labor and the Jews
You gotta hand it to them. Unlike the Coalition, the leaders of the Labor party have no problem whatsoever prosecuting…
Owning Science
‘We own The Science and we think that the world should know it.’ Those were the words of the UN…
CPAC tests Libs
First up, we can all agree that the Australian Conservative Political Action Conference held last weekend at Sydney’s International Convention…
The curse of conservatism
The election victory of Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party came as welcome news this week. Welcome news…
The Albanese Doctrine
Is Anthony Albanese the most ignorant person to ever occupy the role of Australian prime minister? Or is he simply…
God save our CM
It doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, ‘God save our gracious constitutional monarchy, long live our noble constitution…
Position vacant: strong horse
It was disappointing to read the results of this week’s Newspoll showing the federal opposition in an even worse position…
Labor’s Lilliputians
Not since Gulliver’s Travels has there been such an absurd visual image: a giant of a man towering over a…
Strewth-telling
As Neil Brown points out this week, the Victorian government has now embarked on the insanity of ‘our very own…
First among equals
There was much hysteria this week over the news that former prime minister Scott Morrison had secretly sworn himself in…
Showdown at okay coral
Figures released last week show record coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef. It is hardly a surprise that its…
Whose voice?
Here we go again. No sooner is Labor elected than they claim a mandate to create an institution that will…
Making inflation great again
The Albanese government have made excellent use of the long winter break, taking advantage of the warmer weather in the…
Latter-day Luddites
Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio certainly has chutzpah. This week she demanded the Australian Energy Market Operator be given stronger…
Farewell to firm friends
In the space of week Australia has lost two great friends on the international stage. Within days of British Prime…
All in it together
Only a few months ago it was the Canadian government that attacked its own citizens in the most grotesque and…
Scared
In news that won’t necessarily come as a surprise, a recent poll by the Lowy Institute claims that nearly half…
To go woke or to win?
In a rare outbreak of common sense, one of the world’s international sporting bodies this week decided to ban ‘transgender…
Teal zeal
A tweet doing the rounds this week is surely satire? Apparently not. Writing from Sydney’s oceanside suburb of Manly, the…
Das Spectatorfühlung
Perhaps there exists one of those multi-syllable German words that roughly translates as ‘the bitter-sweet feeling one experiences when witnessing…
Hope of the side
It is now abundantly clear that conservatives and a conservative opposition will be essential to prevent Australia becoming a quasi-socialist…
