Features Australia
They’re a weird religious mob
‘I cannot believe in this election that there is a discussion even under way that gay people will go to…
The Donald next door
From tomorrow, and for a few days thereafter, my wife and I will have a new neighbour here in London. …
Race has no place
All Australians are equal. Our legal status should not be determined by our skin colour or our race. This clear…
The Greening and Fall of European Civilisation
The European Parliament election results are in, and the Guardian has proclaimed a ‘green wave’. Winning roughly 9 per cent…
Fact-checker? What about a bias-checker?
ABC chair Ita Buttrose has got interested in the bias issue. Melbourne ABC 774 Drive host Rafael Epstein fished last…
Business/Robbery etc
Forget any post-election hubris. This may turn out to have been an election worth losing. And that is quite apart…
Adani – a cautionary tale
On May 24, through gritted teeth, the ABC reported, ‘Adani’s final environmental hurdles set to be finalised within three weeks,…
Treading the boards with Bin Laden
The Seymour recently completed a season of a play with the intriguing title Osama bin Laden. The banner read: ‘My…
The science is settled
The science is settled. Not in relation to the increasingly discredited theory that man-made global warming is having a signal…
GetUp!’s road to nowhere
Australia owes a debt of gratitude to GetUp!, the George Soros funded outfit with an almost missionary zeal against conservatism.…
Pride and priorities
Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, used to be thought of as the King’s Cross of Melbourne. It was the heart of…
The public humiliation diet
Last month, the UK’s version of Jerry Springer, The Jeremy Kyle Show, was cancelled after a guest suicided post-recording. Steve…
May finally exits, stage left
I have been on sabbatical now, living in London, since the beginning of this year. During that whole time I…
Emissions Notes
We’ll never leave Paris
The climate conundrum
All political philosophies are rational according to their own logic. Even reprehensible and morally repugnant ideologies can appear logical if…
Secretive media office exposed
Operating from the bowels of Parliament House is the highly secretive OCPC, the Office of Commentariat and Polling Coordination. Despite…
ScoMoses
Scott Morrison, having parted Labor’s red sea and led his astonished people to the promised land, must seize his Moses…
If the ABC is so trustworthy, why isn’t anybody watching it?
Here’s a question. Who said this recently, about the ABC: ‘The ABC is one of Australia’s most important institutions. Now,…
Business/Robbery etc
Bob Hawke and Sir Peter Abeles; Bill Shorten and Anthony Pratt. What is it that attracts such close friendships between…
The sloppiest suicide note
‘No-one saw it coming,’ the shocked commentariat claimed. Goodness. Where are the ABC’s fact checkers when you need them? In…
The immigration iceberg
In the Middle Ages the periodic return of plague from the Middle East to communities throughout Europe killed off possibly…
It was The Speccie wot won it
‘No body saw it coming,’ the mainstream media repeated endlessly when results emerged on Saturday evening 18 May, contrary to…
Dirty dancing with Fannie and Freddie
You don’t need a crystal ball to see that whoever wins our federal election, the taxpayer is going to be…
All the news that’s fit to spin
Idly watching the ABC’s idea of news one evening and hearing for the thousandth time how man’s greed and indifference…
The fight of my life
Mr President, Not far from where you sit, some 10 metres from the entrance to this old chamber, there’s a…
