In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
2030: a glimpse of dystopia
The year is 2030. Steven and Melissa are a young Global Citizen couple who have just received wonderful news –…
Is the feminist mafia controlling science funding?
Melbourne University research fellow Dr Anna Kosovac is a civil engineer and an expert in water policy. Last year she…
Has TikTok’s time run out?
The US Senate has (finally) decided to ban Chinese social media app TikTok from government devices after years of criticism…
Reforming Australia’s child support system
Australia’s child support system was introduced by the Hawke government in 1988. Since that time, it has undergone various incremental…
A close encounter with American healthcare
In November 2013, I had my only encounter with the American healthcare system after finishing the New York marathon. It…
The joke’s on Xi: China will not keep its climate fortune
China is kidding itself if it thinks Western mining corporations and tax-hungry governments are going to sit around and let…
The rise of the citizen confronter
News and social media loves a good ‘vox pop’; you know, the voices of those near the Main Road of…
John Howard was right about Medicare
The Hawke government introduced Medicare in 1984. Once John Howard replaced Andrew Peacock as Opposition Leader in 1985, Howard repeatedly…
‘Cookers’ are a product of the modern Left
Why do conspiracy theories emerge? Why are they so rampant today? Ask the Left and they’ll tell you that it’s…
China is on the march, but where is it going?
Re-elected Chairman Xi has (essentially) unlimited power. Addressing his fabricated version of the past and future is one of many…
A predictably dire diversity hire
Sam Brinton, a ‘non-binary’ nuclear official in Biden’s Department of Energy, has been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing…
