Leading article Australia
Crack open the Dom
It’s not often these days that somebody who is a conservative, a Christian and a contributor to this magazine ends…
Australia hurtles off the rails
‘Look what’s going on in Australia right now. After a year and a half they are still enforcing lockdowns by…
Subs deserved to be sunk
The argument put forward by Christopher Pyne and fellow Turnbullites that back in 2016 it was impossible to foresee the…
Glad the Impaler
The New South Wales government press release proudly announcing ‘freedom for the fully vaccinated’ is a document of shame, and…
She’ll get blisters
Yet again this magazine has proven uniquely prescient in its warnings and its advice, a claim that regular subscribers will…
A Farewell to Arms
News that the Biden administration – clearly the most inept group of individuals ever to take up residency in 1600…
Battle lines drawn
Oh, what a difference a week makes! As Australia reaches a tipping point in the number of people vaccinated –…
Chaos foreseen
As Robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration, once put it, Biden has ‘been wrong on nearly every…
Mandy & the IPCC
Floods, hurricanes, disaster, disease, drought, rising sea levels: you name it, it’s all there in the latest doom-laden tome from…
Fossil fuels fuel gold, silver & bronze
As Australians quite rightly revel in our multiple successes at the Tokyo Olympics where we are not only ranked (at…
Covid shame
Following her husband attending last weekend’s anti-lockdown protest, and then having been spotted and recognised on TV, a young Sydney…
Free speech dies in quarantine
Last week the British provocateuse Katie Hopkins was deported from Australia to Britain, an ironical inversion of our colonial history…
Good ship Libs now Ruddick-less
The Liberal party is adrift, a large, ugly and ungainly tanker that has slipped its moorings and is taking on…
How to win the next election
It’s time the Coalition government stopped fretting about the Covid situation and began to focus on the more serious longterm…
Conservatives and Covid
It is the absence of political convictions that has landed the federal government in the Covid mess it is currently…
Re-Joyce and Regret
For those who prefer their politics to be pink and their environmentalism deep green, the re-election of Barnaby Joyce as…
Fake emu oil, real decline
Talkfests are rarely inspiring but the G7 summit last weekend was the final straw. Irritating, unmasked leaders tottered around the…
Bat soup crazy
In this week’s issue, Rebecca Weisser looks at the disgraceful way in which ‘the experts’ got it so wrong on…
Following the science
A key theme that recurs in this magazine, courtesy of many different great writers, is that the accepted consensus of…
‘Je suis Cohen’, anybody?
The video images, acts of violence and racial abuse are shocking. Yet no one appears to be shocked. Certainly not…
Vaccine blackmail is unacceptable
One always tries to avoid resorting to hyperbole or comparisons linked to extreme events, but in this instance there doesn’t…
Joshua tree
Travelling across the Mojave desert in the mid-1800s in search of the Promised Land, a group of Mormons were mesmerised…
Best exotic Victorian hotel
Could there be a more perfect metaphor for not only the multiple failures of the Andrews Labor government but also…
China’s belligerence
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus was the Roman general who wisely noted around 385 AD that, Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet…
Three words
Lest we forget. Three simple words that effortlessly roll off the tongue at this time of the year, but has…
