In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Baby steps
In a previous article, I argued that those now coming out as opposed to lockdowns first need to apologise for perpetrating…
Australia cancels Jerusalem, ignores CCP South Pacific expansionism
Australian Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, has cancelled a Morrison government initiative recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The Labor frontbencher announced the decision in…
Time and tithes of the Voice
These things are always about money. How much will you pay to apologise for the colour of your skin?
BOM-shell
Not content with changing historical data to protect the image of Climate Change (sorry ‘homogenising weather data and closing stations…
Floods and droughts are nothing new
There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human…
NDIS: improvements that make things worse
Sometimes, when English is insufficient to describe a particular situation, we have to turn elsewhere. German has a terrifying phrase ‘verschlimmbesserung’ or…
Mount Warning banned! Which park will be next?
NSW Liberals betray Australians over National Park lock-out based on race. We are looking at widespread racial discrimination enforced by the state government
Rob Roos and Rowan Dean on the abuse of rights
The admission Dutch conservative member of the European Parliament, Rob Roos, dragged out of Pfizer representative Janine Small has thrown…
Australia’s dumbed-down schools are going nowhere
Over the last month, there have been yet another two initiatives designed, supposedly, to improve the performance of Australian schools,…
Dirty dependency: superannuation and ESG
There is nothing green about the big end of town pursuing ESGs instead of energy solutions
Sportspeople should know their limitations
Clint Eastwood, in the character of Inspector ‘Dirty’ Harry Callaghan, delivered what may well be one of the most underrated…
Trans rights or dangerous ‘agency capture’?
In a startling development this week, Paul Barry suggested that the ABC should review its relationship with the AIDS Council…
Thorpe: Boyfriend – bad. Rabble-rousing – okay!
Today, diminutive Greens leader Adam Bandt finally acted against firebrand Victorian senator, Lidia Thorpe. Bandt punted Thorpe from the Senate…
Reflections on the revolution in Britain
Like periscoped sheep, the palace hordes startled back and forth, lunging the gates, devices bobbing – flopping above the fray…
Was it worth it?
For the last two and a half years, we have been subjected to some of the worst perversions of human…
Has Labor invited terrorism?
The threat of terrorism is returning to Australia. The impending release of convicted terrorists at the end of their sentences,…
Dam or be damned!
Australia: the land of droughts and flooding rains. Dorothea Mackellar was clearly not just a poet – but a handy…
Stop fooling around with Covid
Covid has been described as the ‘least deadly pandemic in history’ because its fatality rate among young, healthy people is…
Stop infantilising victims
Everything in this current era appears to be about feelings. There is feelings-based feminism and feelings-based hashtags. If the fembots…
‘Woke’ poisons everything
If the intention of Woke acolytes is to make everything a lot worse, they should be given a gold star…
Church and State
Something I decided to help solve after the failures of the 2016 federal election is the level of misinformation that…
Frogself
A Hobart mayoral candidate has been accused of mocking transgendered people because she signed off an email by identifying as…
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