In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The curious case of the vanishing Covid fines
On Tuesday last week, New South Wales joined the growing list of governments to quietly drop (or reimburse) Covid fines.…
Victoria’s eyes
I recently had the experience of engaging with two Victorias. It was not planned – indeed, both ‘acquaintances’ were well…
Could we benefit from a new National Anthem?
Following a nationwide competition run by the Australian Council of the Arts to find a National Anthem to replace God Save…
The media has a God complex
The headline read: Scott Morrison ‘has a God complex’ and recited the Bible in meetings, new book claims. Whoa. This’ll…
Brittany Higgins case finally over
Great news. The Brittany Higgins case is over. The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold announced yesterday that the…
LEAKED: The Twitter Files: Hunter’s Laptop
Someone needs to go and wake up Sleepy Joe, because Twitter CEO Elon Musk is airing the social media company’s…
Voluntary Assisted Dying is back on the agenda
The Covid pandemic brought into focus management of the elderly in nursing homes; those with dementia or with chronic morbidity…
Change the government, or the reef gets it!
As far as Australian left-wing politicians were concerned, the threatened endangerment finding on the Great Barrier Reef was just blackmail.…
Beware of Labor bearing advice
It is always amusing to hear what wisdom a party in power offers its opponents because the ultimate goal of…
The three lessons that Christmas teaches our culture
Christmas is popular. Nearly every Australian can’t wait to put up their lights and decorations. Retailers rush to sell them…
VATE’s commitment to championing the Voice
It shouldn’t surprise that at a recent conference organised by the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) teachers…
It’s acceptable to protest Covid measures – but only in China
And just like that, in case you missed the headlines, protesting against Covid measures has become acceptable. Heroic, even –…
Australians all let us rejoice, for Gough is, thankfully, long gone
Today is the 50th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam government. The hagiography is coming in a torrent: Whitlam…
Victoria and China: a tragic tale of two tyrannies
The contrast could not be greater: freedom is willingly being thrown away in Victoria and the West while being passionately…
Turn! Turn! Turn!
In 1965, The Byrds announced themselves to the world with their immortal hit Turn! Turn! Turn! The lyrics, which most people…
Twitter unplugged: Musk wages war on child exploitation
Twitter unplugged from the Woketopian matrix is firing on all cylinders, despite predictions the platform was doomed. Bitter at not having…
Cyborg assassins: robots granted a licence to kill
Cyborg assassins aka ‘Terminators’ (of a sort) have been legalised in San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) board…
Morrison: sorry – not sorry…
You’ve got to hand it to the Labor Party – when they get their paws on power, they waste no…
‘Junior’ Coalition partner?
On Monday, the Nationals under David Littleproud and Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price took a political step that…
A belligerent Voice?
To paraphrase the awkward words of Joe Biden, ‘The Nationals ain’t black … they’re not voting for the Voice.’ Biden’s…
‘Racist’ Monkeypox renamed mpox - genius!
The World Health Organisation has announced a brand new, stigma-free, name for Monkeypox after US President Joe Biden denounced the name as racist. The…
Boys’ clubs under siege
Why do so many women have it in for male cyclists? All the jokes about unsightly middle-aged men in Lycra,…
A republic by stealth: why the King belongs on the $5 banknote
Do Australians know who is on their banknotes? How many of us, if asked randomly on the street, would be…
The Shinkansen to Hiroshima: a Covid-Haunted world
When Michael Jackson famously started wearing face masks, many took it as evidence that the great man had succumbed to…
Good on the Nationals
An obsession with race politics is a dangerous direction for any nation to take. Enshrining racial discrimination and supremacy into…
