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How I kept my inner rage against our Dear Leader
What I learned during 200+ days of Victoria’s Covid lockdown
Musk reveals free speech owned by advertising giants
The Twitter elite, who spend most of their time preaching about socialism and ‘equality’, have debased themselves to the level…
On the (dystopian) beach
Nevil Shute’s classic apocalyptic 1957 novel about the end of the world, On the Beach, was set, as such horror…
Covid blurred the separation of Church and State
Churches allowed fear of the omnipotent God to be replaced with the fear of a fragile virus, making saviours out of health officials
No amnesty for pandemic fanaticism
A more honest headline for The Atlantic’s recent demand for amnesty over the pandemic response would have been: ‘Sorry, not Sorry.’ The sarcasm best…
The Right will slay this Woke dystopia
Conservatives the world over are taking back power and restoring sanity, but where is Peter Dutton?
Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states
Remember the chorus of Hollywood bien-pensants who publicly avowed that they would leave the country if Trump won the election in 2016? To…
The more things change…
In Moscow 1992, according to former ABC journalist in Soviet Russia Monica Attard, ‘the cost of everything – a loaf…
The Midterms: America faces its Litmus Election
In the 14th Century, Spanish chemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova discovered that litmus, a compound derived from natural bacteria, would…
Fiona Patten ditches safety for sex workers
‘It’s really opened a lot of doors, that could lead somewhere else.’ Jay said, unyielding. We stood at the entrance…
Living in the Latter Days
Australians are living in the latter days of the Anglo/American Empire. For centuries, world power centres have been moving west…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs Elon Musk
Elon Musk has worn the crown for less than a week and Twitter is already more fun. By ‘more fun’…
A lesson for Lismore
The Green anti-dredging cult has destroyed Australia’s ports and endangered riverside towns
Elon Musk giveth, and Elon Musk taketh away
Back in the lockdown days, around the time I started fiddling around with cryptocurrency, Elon Musk was hailed as a…
Climate vandals mimic ISIS in their war against art
One could be forgiven for thinking that climate groups had been masterfully infiltrated by swathes of fossil fuel merchants. How…
IR madness: Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill
Industrial relations lawyers in Australia each need to immediately buy themselves a new Porsche. Labor’s new Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is…
$15 million: the debt-trap of empty virtue signalling
Many Victorians are incensed by the news that Daniel Andrews has decided to spend Victorian taxpayer money to fill the $15…
Repatriation…?
As Mr Albanese cleared the way to repatriate jihadi brides, National Archives opened access to my mum’s naturalisation records. In…
Infectious diseases remain a threat
Have we learnt anything from our past experience of infectious disease? For well over a century, pandemics and epidemics produced…
Spitting out the truth
The problems on Darwin’s buses are not new and the Transport Workers Union has long campaigned for better protection for…
Climate injustice: a personal account from a Kiwi farmer
New Zealand sheep farmers have been singled out to bear the brunt of our country’s efforts to stop the planet…
Jacinda: just go!
The Ardern regime in New Zealand has been an embarrassment to the West. During her short tenure as Prime Minister,…
A tertiary tragedy
Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility
Desperate Dan tries ‘bread and a $15m circus’
If Netball Australia had any decency, they would reject Dan Andrews $15 million sponsorship offer. The Victoria Premier promised to…
Let’s talk Covid apologies … and reparations
If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon. Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that…
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