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Going with the vibe

10 December 2022 9:00 am

It has taken three decades for The Castle chooks to finally come home to roost. The 1997 film, one of…

The Senator v. the Voice

3 December 2022 9:00 am

With any luck, Australia should have its first indigenous prime minister within our lifetimes and it will be a conservative…

Grand Theft Albo

26 November 2022 9:00 am

In the run-up to the last federal election,  Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen promised repeatedly that they would slash Australia’s…

Unreasonable

19 November 2022 9:00 am

In the 1980s movie Rain Man, the autistic Dustin Hoffman reliably informed Tom Cruise that Qantas was the safest airline…

The Dummy

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Not since Howard Carter risked the curse of the Pharaohs to plunder the pyramids a hundred years ago this month…

Covid amnesty, anyone?

5 November 2022 9:00 am

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

29 October 2022 9:00 am

Gina Rinehart was correct to withdraw the extraordinarily generous $15 million she had donated to Netball Australia following a severe…

Labor and the Jews

22 October 2022 9:00 am

You gotta hand it to them. Unlike the Coalition, the leaders of the Labor party have no problem whatsoever prosecuting…

Owning Science

15 October 2022 9:00 am

‘We own The Science and we think that the world should know it.’ Those were the words of the UN…

CPAC tests Libs

8 October 2022 9:00 am

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

1 October 2022 9:00 am

The election victory of Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party came as welcome news this week. Welcome news…

The Albanese Doctrine

24 September 2022 9:00 am

Is Anthony Albanese the most ignorant person to ever occupy the role of Australian prime minister? Or is he simply…

God save our CM

17 September 2022 9:00 am

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

10 September 2022 9:00 am

It was disappointing to read the results of this week’s Newspoll showing the federal opposition in an even worse position…

Labor’s Lilliputians

2 September 2022 11:00 pm

Not since Gulliver’s Travels has there been such an absurd visual image: a giant of a man towering over a…

Strewth-telling

27 August 2022 9:00 am

As Neil Brown points out this week, the Victorian government has now embarked on the insanity of ‘our very own…

First among equals

20 August 2022 9:00 am

There was much hysteria this week over the news that former prime minister Scott Morrison had secretly sworn himself in…

Showdown at okay coral

13 August 2022 9:00 am

Figures released last week show record coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef. It is hardly a surprise that its…

Whose voice?

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Here we go again. No sooner is Labor elected than they claim a mandate to create an institution that will…

Making inflation great again

30 July 2022 9:00 am

The Albanese government have made excellent use of the long winter break, taking advantage of the warmer weather in the…

Latter-day Luddites

23 July 2022 9:00 am

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

16 July 2022 9:00 am

In the space of week Australia has lost two great friends on the international stage. Within days of British Prime…

All in it together

9 July 2022 9:00 am

Only a few months ago it was the Canadian government that attacked its own citizens in the most grotesque and…

Scared

2 July 2022 9:00 am

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?

25 June 2022 9:00 am

In a rare outbreak of common sense, one of the world’s international sporting bodies this week decided to ban ‘transgender…