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Our retreat from rational economics
In today’s world, government spending accounts for up to and (in the EU) over 50 per cent of GDP –…
Who voted for wealth redistribution to save the planet?
Politicians of all stripes and in all Western countries have been obediently parroting the official IPCC line that Climate Change…
Environmental pollution, are we winning?
As the COP27 gabfest continues it is also appropriate to consider other aspects of the environment that perhaps need greater…
My thoughts about school, politics, and the vaccine
School is a great place to be with friends and learn new skills. I am a student in Year 7…
Fear saved the Democrats
‘Democracy is on the ballot, this election.’ This was the lie that parted the red sea and helped turn an…
Albo hasn’t broken his biggest election promise … yet
Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones recently foreshadowed that the Albanese government will propose curtailing aspects of the superannuation tax concessions.…
A ‘hard no’ on the plea for pandemic amnesty
There has already been a robust response to Emily Oster’s flimsy Atlantic piece, Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty in which the…
Football is a team sport: ban the penalty kick shootout
The World Cup football match between Australia and Peru was played in Doha in June of this year. Australian coach,…
Four reasons to scrap ‘diversity and inclusion’
Esteemed American psychologist Jonathon Haidt recently made headlines having resigned from his major professional association. He did so out of frustration that ‘everybody…
ABC can’t cop Twitter criticism
It has been barely a few weeks since Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, but the ABC’s sheltered class are already weighing…
Rewire the Nation or go nuclear?
The Albanese government’s promise to reduce average household power bills by $275 is disappearing along with its mandate for a…
Not ‘green’ at all
‘Green’ policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile United Nations scheme…
WA: democratic freedoms for religious schools under attack
On August 16, Western Australia’s Attorney General John Quigley tabled in Parliament the Law Reform Commission’s report into the Review…
This is war: Renewables vs the West
The future of renewable energy is laid out before us, bound by inevitable consequences and engineering restraints. It is a…
A society without boundaries is madness
Until we know the shape of something, we cannot begin to understand what it might be or what it might…
The laddie’s not for turning
If you walked down a south side Canberra road during the lead-up to the last federal election, as this spectator…
Anti-fragile: humans need risk, not ‘safe spaces’
Last week I had a medical student shadowing me when we were called to the Emergency Department for a critically…
Sydney’s Covid cruise ship
A great deal of effort went into ‘talking up the fear’ yesterday when a cruise ship with 800 positive Covid…
Are you not entertained? Politics is the death of sport
I have a confession to make. Sometimes when I drive home, I listen to a sports talk-back radio program. Recently,…
Is Ratnam living on another planet?
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read the following words from Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam,…
The inversion of politics is just a scratch beneath the surface
Modern politics has been condensed – within 280 characters to be exact – with much of the political tide swayed…
Twenty years hard Labor
On November 22, Daniel Andrews will mark exactly twenty years as a member of the Victorian Parliament. Just four days…
Free range eggs and supermarket hypocrisy
If you are shopping for eggs in the supermarket, free range eggs will be at eye level, barn laid eggs…
Religious schools struggle to keep the faith
The expression the price of freedom is eternal vigilance is certainly true when it comes to religious freedom and freedom…
Excess deaths? Governments should tread softly on Covid measures
Humility is not a dominant personality trait among Australian state leaders and health bureaucrats. Annastacia Palaszczuk’s rush to advise further…
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