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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Vic Libs: don’t be the Greens’ useful idiots

9 November 2022 2:01 pm

In April 1917, Russia was in uproar. Although the Tsar had been overthrown by a liberal revolution, chaos reigned, the…

The ABC, Playschool, and drag queen story hour

9 November 2022 1:05 pm

There’s a bear in there, and a chair as well, there are people with games, and stories to tell, open…

Blackboxed: New Zealand’s expensive management consultants

9 November 2022 8:00 am

There’s a lot going on across New Zealand government agencies, and I suspect that the government is not too keen…

The voice of energy realism

9 November 2022 7:00 am

The transition from coal is limited by the lowest level of renewable energy input to the grid on windless nights……

Good on ya Greta!

9 November 2022 4:00 am

Big corporations will always find a way to be Net Zero with a bit of tricky accounting, but small businesses are the ones who will suffer

The evidence is not ‘in’

8 November 2022 1:04 pm

It might take a catastrophe to stop politicians (and other cohorts) making assertions to justify consequential decisions without evidence –…

Renewable Woke: welcome to ‘nightmare’

8 November 2022 11:00 am

When my lads were little, they liked watching Lamb Chop’s Sing-Along. Invariably, the characters ended the show by singing The Song That…

Dying for attention: murderous TikTok trends

8 November 2022 10:00 am

The youth have always craved attention. It is a natural part of growing up, feeling out one’s place in the…

Greta and her green-communism

8 November 2022 8:00 am

Many breathed a sigh of relief when Greta Thunberg announced she was not going to attend COP 27 Climate Change…

Australia’s Amsterdam moment

8 November 2022 6:00 am

The new film Amsterdam from David O Russell tells of an almost forgotten moment in American history when, in 1933, a group…

Meloni Derangement Syndrome

8 November 2022 4:00 am

Before her election as Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni faced accusations day in and day out that she was a…

Stand up for Australia

7 November 2022 12:00 pm

I have been involved with the Australian Monarchist League for many years now, but when I stepped up as Campaign Chairman of…

Chris Luxon: where is National in the fight for free speech?

7 November 2022 11:00 am

Minister of Justice Kiri Allan confirmed on Sunday, after almost a year of silence on the issue, that the proposed…

Climate policy: driving us in the wrong direction

7 November 2022 8:00 am

In the not-too-distant future, the climate policies of the Albanese government will become untenable. Why? Because these policies are based…

Renewables-only is naked ideology

7 November 2022 6:00 am

Daniel Andrews has ripped away renewable energy’s cloak of economic and engineering respectability. Unveiling his new energy policy for Victoria…

How I kept my inner rage against our Dear Leader

7 November 2022 4:00 am

What I learned during 200+ days of Victoria’s Covid lockdown

Musk reveals free speech owned by advertising giants

6 November 2022 1:28 pm

The Twitter elite, who spend most of their time preaching about socialism and ‘equality’, have debased themselves to the level…

On the (dystopian) beach

6 November 2022 7:00 am

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

6 November 2022 4:00 am

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

5 November 2022 2:30 pm

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

5 November 2022 12:53 pm

Conservatives the world over are taking back power and restoring sanity, but where is Peter Dutton?

Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states

5 November 2022 11:04 am

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…

5 November 2022 7:00 am

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

5 November 2022 6:00 am

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

4 November 2022 2:11 pm

‘It’s really opened a lot of doors, that could lead somewhere else.’ Jay said, unyielding. We stood at the entrance…