In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
A Christmas tree vs. the fringe gender activists
Authorities in the little town of Dedham Massachusetts went into damage control this week after abandoning the town’s decades-long tradition of displaying…
My Christmas wish
To my fellow Australians… During this Christmas festival may you be enveloped with the love of family and friends. May…
Post-Covid and extremely merry
Is it just me or is everyone getting pretty merry about the festive season this year? First, we had the…
Marxism is ‘so’ 2022
‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ is the famous Karl Marx put-down, which he wrote in 1843 and which…
No Christmas card from the Liberal leader
It seems I have upset Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. The Liberal Party leader wrote a scathing letter, published in The…
An Australian Christmas
When I was small, Christmas meant visiting my nan in St Ives. Her house existed in a state of chaos,…
Letter to the Editor: Peter Dutton
Leader of the Liberal Party Peter Dutton issues a response to an earlier article by author James Macpherson. Got something…
‘Away with the Manger’: Christmas hijacked by politics
Away with the manger; no wisemen from afar; the little Lord Jesus; replaced by Indigenous art!
Religion as a political football
It’s no secret that many on the progressive Left despise Judeo-Christian faiths and their legacy on Western Civilisation. Their pro-Islam…
Phelps breaks AHPRA’s culture of fear
Dr Kerryn Phelps AM has been a household name in Australia since the 1990s. I remember well her frequent appearances…
Saving the planet at high speed
Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has saved his forests from the sustainable, renewable timber industry. (Saving our forests and controlling…
Deny Daniel Andrews Communion?
Christmas is coming and Daniel Andrews, a self-professed Catholic, has been naughty, not nice. His actions, words, and policies often…
Liberal review heads in the Right direction
After considerable media teasing, the-anticipated report into the Liberal Party’s electoral failure last May has finally been released. Conducted by…
Chris Bowen’s rendezvous with bad ideas
Back in July 2022, Chris Bowen the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, launched the latest CSIRO electricity costs report which…
Bitter politics
I have two mottoes. This first is ‘never look back’ and the second, and more important one in these troubled…
Kerryn Phelps’ vaccine injuries: the silence is deafening
‘…but-but-but we’re not one of those crazy, far-right, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theory, cooker, anti-vaxxers!!! We really did suffer from serious vaccine side effects!’ The…
Betray back better
Early on in March 2020, I was leery of the hysteria surrounding Covid and decided my course of action was…
Colourful writing must die to protect the feelings of the rich and vacuous
The pearl-clutching hypocrites were up in arms this week about a colourful writer and media commentator being exactly that, a…
Museums of vandalism, doomsayers, and climate catastrophe
It is probably fair to say that the last few months in the life of the average gallery attendant has…
Ruddy hell – Kevin’s our Man in Washington
In the dead of the silly season, when thoughts are turned to last-minute presents and dreading the obnoxious uncle turning…
MERS: there’s no accounting for human stupidity
After Monkey Pox turned out to be a real disappointment as a successor to Covid (with a rather politically awkward…
#MeToo: the creed of hypocrisy
Australian actress Margot Robbie recently revealed in an interview with E! News that she gave Brad Pitt an unscripted kiss in a…
Blacktivists boot black neurosurgeon
Detroit’s school board has cancelled acclaimed neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, based upon claims ‘his name on a school was synonymous with having Trump…
Who wants to run a gas company?
Between mid-2020 and late 2022, average gas prices in the eastern states of Australia increased four times, according to figures…
Setting fire to the climate straw man
As the inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism hit home with our very own energy crisis, Australians are entitled…