Features Australia
Conscience rules, OK?
Two problems with Scott Morrison’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill. First, what does it mean for those who make a stand…
Business/Robbery etc
Now that Adani’s Carmichael mine in remote central Queensland is, after nine tempestuous years, under way since at last getting…
Another Sampson blinded in Gaza
Hooray for Pallywood, or rather Gazallywood, that wonderful melange of misleading footage, falsehoods, fakeries and frauds that makes up so…
Privilege points to prejudice
The other day I checked my points balance. I felt ashamed by how high it was, and wondered what I…
Go fund yourself!
In 2009, on ABC’s Q&A, host Tony Jones asked host of Channel Ten’s The Project and practising Muslim Waleed Aly…
Clairvoyant on fuel security?
What is it about the words ‘fuel security’ that this government doesn’t understand? The first duty of any government is…
Lawyers and law schools
Among a certain, shall we say more mature, segment of the population there is a lingering sense that lawyers as…
Legislating free speech
What is happening to Israel Folau should not happen in a free society. GoFundMe’s hypocritical decision to shut down a…
The Thuringian flagellants and the green gluers
Those young men and women who have taken to gluing themselves to walls and roads in order to save the…
Demography is destiny
When Sky News asked Australian Labor MP Anne Aly why she opposed the Coalition’s tax cut plan, she cited ‘the…
All aboard the anti-Catholic bandwagon
Driven by spite and ideology masquerading as a concern for ‘justice’, the anti-Catholic bandwagon rumbles on, unimpeded by the fall-off…
China’s organ grinder
Political violence is rare in Australia but a senior partner at a Sydney accounting firm gave a new ‘twist’ to…
Fighting back in the gender wars
Israel Folau is right to condemn gender fluidity and the push to get children and adolescents to transition. Folau also…
Business/Robbery etc
A real political crisis? Or just some local manifestations of the West’s worldwide collapse of rusted-on party loyalty that is…
Not your grandfather’s nuclear power
When Chief Scientist Alan Finkel’s electricity market review passed through New York a couple of years ago, the team went…
On trade, Trump is the new Menzies
Our federal election is over but the US-China trade war rolls on. Overnight Donald Trump offered some free advice to…
Cane toads squashed by the bedwetters
I finally sat down and had a look at the new Scott Morrison cabinet. Wow! If you imagine a spectrum…
Climate Council crestfallen
Australia’s media will shortly run the following ‘climate crisis’ stories: London’s black cabs are going electric; UK offshore turbines are…
Albo – more of the same
Greeted by the naive as a breath of fresh air, the only significant difference Anthony Albanese has demonstrated from his…
Undie-cover agents
Last week, with all the stealth of the pirates of Penzance, Australia’s Federal Police, raided not one but two major…
It’s China, not climate
Despite constant doom-saying over climate and commentators wringing their hands over floods in Queensland and droughts in NSW and Victoria,…
Tory turmoil
Since the advent of cable news and the internet most politically-interested Aussies now follow US politics more than UK politics.…
Boris or oblivion
They recently released a poll over here in Britain. Only women were polled and they were asked ‘Would you sleep…
Libs must now lead
The euphoria is understandable. After trailing Labor in the polls throughout the last parliament, the Liberals can be forgiven a…
Press and government at war. Thank heavens
The suggestion that Australia may well be the world’s most secretive democracy is even more ludicrous when we consider its…
