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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Walk for Life

19 March 2024 3:00 am

This was not the first time I marched at a Walk for Life, but it was the first time I…

Four-year terms: an outsider perspective

19 March 2024 2:00 am

Australia’s current Prime Minister has suggested that Commonwealth Parliaments should go four years between elections, instead of the current three.…

Hobson’s leadership choice for Vic Libs

19 March 2024 1:00 am

Over the weekend, the Melbourne media were full of fevered speculation that a challenge to struggling Victorian Liberal and Coalition…

The cheap renewable thrill of climate protests

18 March 2024 11:29 pm

On March 13, 2024, Greta Thunberg was dragged away from blocking the Swedish Parliament entrance for a second day. She…

Reject education furphies

18 March 2024 2:35 pm

Despite the additional billions invested over the last 30 years, countless educational enquiries and reports, several national reform agreements, and…

Labor’s Brisbane horror election night could be a trap for the LNP

18 March 2024 4:25 am

Queensland held its local council elections Saturday, which would normally be a big yawn outside the Sunshine State, except for…

Australian banks need to be making much bigger losses on their lending

18 March 2024 2:30 am

At a recent event I met and had a long chat with a retired economist who, in his professional career,…

‘Hell to pay’ if gender equity activists get their way

18 March 2024 2:00 am

Every year, like clockwork, the grievance industry works itself into a righteous fury over the annual Employer Census results compiled…

Voiceless in Victoria: farmers horrified by renewable energy fast-tracking

17 March 2024 9:30 am

‘It takes too long:’ Solar and wind farm blockers to be weeded out to fast-track renewable projects. That was the…

Puberty blocker ban shows public opinion turning on gender ‘affirmation’

16 March 2024 11:13 pm

This week in Britain, a landmark historical move to ban puberty blockers in gender clinics has been motioned and overseen…

Dystopian Google Gemini shows why misinformation laws are flawed

16 March 2024 11:46 am

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. No matter how many revelations came to light of the rampant political…

Woke tropes informing Australia’s Gaza response

16 March 2024 11:35 am

ACT Senator David Pocock wrote about Australia’s response to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza recently. The next day, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong…

Sam Kerr and a case study in identity politics

14 March 2024 3:00 am

Still fresh with pride from the Matildas’ inspirational World Cup campaign, Australians woke up last Wednesday morning to the news…

The real reason young people are leaving Sydney

14 March 2024 2:30 am

When it comes to Sydney’s housing problem, Premier Chris Minns is full of, uh, ‘facts’. ‘We’re about the 830th densest…

Becoming cashless, but at what cost?

14 March 2024 2:00 am

Cash is no longer King. Long before the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to remove the monarch from our…

Australia’s ATM extinction!

13 March 2024 3:30 am

Hands up if you’ve struggled to find an ATM lately… I don’t mean an overpriced service station ATM; I mean…

Mystical truth and palpable absurdity

13 March 2024 3:00 am

George Orwell wrote in 1984, ‘The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable…

History returning from the grave

13 March 2024 2:30 am

Muticulturalism and multipolarity

Our spy laws are out of date (again)

13 March 2024 2:00 am

It appears that ASIO is unable to bring about the prosecution of an unamed former politician who betrayed Australia because…

Scathing response to Adam Bandt’s private jet hypocrisy

12 March 2024 10:45 pm

How much does it cost to keep the leader of a minor, nature-loving, tree-hugging political party happy? Roughly $1 million,…

Marriage – a fading institution

12 March 2024 3:00 am

‘Dearly beloved, we are gathered together in the sight of God, and in the face of this congregation, to join…

Hubris and the Left

12 March 2024 2:30 am

We are all familiar with the concept of hubris. The vice of excessive self-confidence and ambition which, by inducing a…

Is the Pope’s moral surrender a sin?

12 March 2024 2:00 am

In the Middle East, US President Joe Biden is urging Israel’s surrender to the terrorist Hamas organisation via a ceasefire.…

Renewable enthusiasts are panicking about Dutton’s genius nuclear plan

11 March 2024 8:33 pm

In recent days, headlines from Net-Zero-inclined publications have become increasingly unhinged. Why nuclear power is ‘madness on steroids’! Peter Dutton wonders when…

The Palaszczuk legacy: terrible for Queenslanders, appalling for women

11 March 2024 12:24 pm

The Inala by-election, which will decide on a replacement for Annastacia Palaszczuk in Queensland’s Parliament, is scheduled for March 16,…