In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
No time for panic
Cristina Talacko is the CEO of Coalition for Conservation, an environmental charity working with centre-right politicians on energy and climate…
Farewell 2022: the year of vindication
2022 has been a big year for conspiracy theorists – mainly because most of what they said is in the…
Del Noce, modernity, and the death of the Enlightenment
In Looking back on the Spanish Civil War (1943) George Orwell writes, such is the power of totalitarian thought control…
Happy Energophobia!
It is the New Year season, so I thought we should celebrate around something that will be common to all…
Batteries not included
Renewable energy battery farms threaten to cripple the economy with cyclic costs
Pull it together, Australia!
Australia is a great nation and a country to be proud of. We have faced challenging times, year after year,…
The slippery slope to socialism
I have the heater on in mid-summer Australia, so it makes sense that ‘they’ changed ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’…
A ‘borderless world’? Not for carbon!
The European Union has long been known as a collection of bad ideas. On brand, it has decided to become…
Australia’s democratic backslide
Democracy is the backbone of the Australian way of life. By global standards, Australia’s electoral and democratic institutions are at…
Bin chickens chow down on cane toads
Cane toads have long been painted as an existential threat to Queensland’s ecosystem. Since their deliberate introduction in 1935 by…
Australia and a Pacific ‘shape up’ in 2023
This year, the Pacific Islands clearly featured much more vividly in Australian politics. Near-state collapse in the Solomon Islands, matched…
What should we go to war over?
Foreign Minister Penny Wong went to Beijing to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to mark the 50th anniversary…
Did the Victorian elections ignore the Constitution and Human Rights Charter?
When the Bracks government in Victoria established an Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in 2006 it bragged that it…
Childish China threatens Taiwan (again)
China has decided to finish the year by antagonising Taiwan. Reports indicate that 71 planes and 7 military ships were…
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…
