In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Breaking the silence: do vested interests stifle medical discussions?
Previously we examined the story behind UK Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra’s call to ‘stop the shots’. In this follow up piece…
Xi is not foolish enough to invade Taiwan (we hope)
Let’s be realistic … if counterintuitive. Despite the many illustrious commentators and foreign affairs specialists warning and worrying in the…
The Prime Minister is right – and very wrong
Recently, the Prime Minister of Australia has been heard regularly professing, ‘There is enough information about the Voice out there…
Carlos conquers Carrington
Nobody living today can remember two significant events that occurred in September 1859. These events were separated by a 24-hour…
The God delusion: men seeking womb transplants
Last week, I stumbled over the Daily Mail article titled: EXCLUSIVE: Womb transplants for TRANS women are ‘very likely in the near future’,…
Productivity: are Australians working too hard, or not hard enough?
Productivity is defined as a measure of the efficiency of production of goods and services, in simple terms the number…
The vegans will starve: it’s a bug-eat-bug world out there
Clicking on the link to a recent Reader’s Digest story about common foods that secretly contain insects was a mistake. I could…
‘No’ means no: the sensible case against the Voice
Anthony Albanese’s first act as Prime Minister was to replace two of the three Australian flags in the Parliament House…
Naked self-interest: Chalmers, Labor, and the unions
Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ essay in The Monthly is an urgent, although not particularly eloquent, proof of the need for organisations like…
Warming the till: preachers of the apocalypse make billions
Political agenda dressed in the lab coat of science
Delilah is banned, what’s next?
Delilah is a 1967 chart-topper first sung by the Welsh dragon Sir Tom Jones. The song topped the charts in many…
Ardern escapes election judgment
On the morning of August 26, 2021, my wife and I arrived at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand, for our flight…
Messing with ‘the maths’
It looks like Queensland is about to join most other states in Australia and allow people to change their sex…
Liberals: look to Meloni for centre-right success
Following the delivery of the Liberal Party’s post-election review, the Loughnane-Hume report, at the end of 2022, the former member…
Cost-of-living crisis to cross the Nullarbor
The Net Zero agenda is fuelling the cost-of-living crisis that mainstream Australians are facing as household energy bills and everyday…
Slice and dice social justice: organs in exchange for liberty
There are some headlines that make you wonder about the direction of our so-called ‘progressive’ civilisation. Not only are our…
On gambling, we shall all be Catholics
Former ClubsNSW CEO Josh Landis made a now infamous comment (that he has apologised for) suggesting NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet…
Achieving Net Zero
According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines…
The Australian socialist experiment: quasi-nationalisation and re-purposing of free-markets
This is the third of three articles examining the new Australian socialist experiment that is now well underway. The first…
Vaping: public health’s unhealthy obsession
The Australian public health industry is overpopulated with intellectual egotists – activists, academics, and bureaucrats who insist they know best…
Defying Wokism at Cardinal Pell’s funeral
As the funeral of Cardinal George Pell commenced with a procession of clergy and the singing of the great Wesleyan…
The Canberra ‘Voice’
You have probably read that the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is expected to provide an opportunity for an elected assembly…
Sea life: cruising after Covid
The former Premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, probably never wanted to see the Ruby Princess again. Three years…
I support Australia Day: the NSW Police moved me along
On the morning of Australia Day last week, I made my way to the Invasion Day Sydney protest with an I Support Australia…
#ChineseSpyBalloon
Communists make really poor neighbours. This week, in the spirit of raising international tensions for no good reason, the Chinese…
