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NSW Liberals: party democracy must be honoured
If you thought the factional war that tore apart the NSW Liberal Party on the eve of the recent federal…
Albo’s gas cap folly
If the threat of gas rationing and blackouts on the first day of winter this year taught us anything it…
Pandora’s box of genes: Orwell’s DNA databases
Earlier this year in July, one of Australia’s enduring mysteries – the Somerton Man – was solved. It was the story of…
Twitter’s smoking gun
The latest batch of Twitter Files have dropped, and boy are they a doozy. Yet again, the conspiracy theorists have…
Rewiring the nation
Mr Malinauskas, Premier of the Australian colony of South Australia, let slip in recent times that he believed there should…
Entering a new Dark Age
‘Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.’ – Heinrich Heine History has always been problematic for tyrants.…
The Nanny State Awards
This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of strong contenders from around the…
There are no degrees of innocence
The golden thread rule running through criminal law in our common law system is that a person accused of a…
Elton John’s Twitter curtain call
Elton John has quit twitter. The iconic singer/songwriter advised his 1.1 million followers on Twitter early this morning: ‘All my…
Why we never win
Unless there is major ideological and structural reform, the future for the Liberals and the broad centre-right is bleak
Therapeutic justice: the unreligion of our age
I am not a lawyer, but if I take at face value the description of a number of cases in…
The Twitter Files: shadowbanning is real
Headlines are awash with the accusation that former CEO Jack Dorsey – and other members of the former Twitter team…
Under-age voting is coming
The current push from the Greens to change the voting age relates to self-interest, rather than the interest of the…
Long Covid: hysteria that won’t die
If you think that the Covid madness is over, think again. I’m not talking about China, where people are being…
Parks Australia: when bureaucracy turns racist
Imagine telling a Brit of migrant origin that they’re forbidden from visiting the White Cliffs of Dover because they are…
Freedom, the Liberal Party, and Fleetwood Mac
Last week, tragedy struck two institutions I love. Both of them are devoted to an idea I’m passionate about: freedom.…
Beyond the reach of government
Everyone these days is pretty sure they’re right, no matter which side of any given debate they are on. There…
The coming crash of the climate cult
The Climate Cult worships two green idols – electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile UN…
Conservatism after the Victorian election
Here is a simple truth: the Liberal Party in Victoria could not defeat the most corrupt, incompetent, and debt-ridden Labor…
170 patients that changed everything
Few people realise that the Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA)of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine/BNT 162b2 was granted on the efficacy data…
The Left’s racism against Senator Price: a voice that refuses to obey
In the name of equity and inclusion, Australia’s marquee satire publication, The Betoota Advocate, has written an astonishing (and some may say racist) article…
Jane Fonda: climate change and the UN’s ‘racial sacrifice zones’
Actress Jane Fonda is trending on social media for the hilarious anti-science belief that racism and misogyny are causing climate…
Ouch! The Libs shoot themselves in the foot (again)
Is the Liberal Party a lost cause? It certainly seems that way. Every time the party has a chance to…
The Left’s selective catastrophising
Catastrophising comes easily to climate change activists. Our new monarch, King Charles III, declared in 2009 we had only ‘100…
ESG: climate virtue bleeding super dry
Business, where the profit motive is explicitly dominant and where the hundreds of millions of direct and indirect owners want…
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