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Dear Dom (versions A and B)
At some point during this week, an unvaccinated person will stroll into a newsagent in New South Wales to buy…
Bullies and trolls
‘I have a record of standing up to those who will seek to threaten Australia’s interests, whether they’re outside this…
Conservative populists
‘Disgusting right-wing nut-jobs’, ‘rebels’, ‘populist conservatives’ and of course ‘anti-vaxxers’. These are just some of the politer insults being hurled…
A glorious coalition of conservatives
As Scott Morrison sets up the idea of ‘who do you trust?’ as his 2022 election theme, and in doing…
Are we free yet?
There were some fine words from the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, this week when he spoke in Melbourne to a…
By the book
As Scott Morrison gallivanted on the Glasgow stage this week, rubbing elbows (literally) with the likes of Joe Biden, Boris…
All for nothing
Perhaps a future synonym of ‘net zero’ will be ‘all for nothing’. For surely that is what the last three…
How to lose an election
Scott Morrison and the Coalition have a unique opportunity to go to the next election with their own version of…
Roll up
This week, a ‘voluntary assisted dying’ Bill will be presented to the NSW Parliament, following the recent passage of similar…
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…
