In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Climate criminals
If an ordinary person walks up to a priceless work of art in a gallery and either glues themselves to…
New Zealand’s pandemic science is cracking up
Government behaviour during Covid presented a chilling precedent for future pandemic event responses
Earth is not a Greenhouse
Warming alarmists claim: ‘Earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse.’ This is false. Glass is largely transparent to…
Russian cannon fodder
Never before has the world been so gripped with saving lives. We’ve survived Covid lockdowns imposed by governments claiming they’d…
Tyranny’s higher education production line
Reflecting on Jacinda Ardern’s recent attack on free speech at the United Nations, British pundit Brendan O’Neill astutely declared that…
Bros
Bros follows the story of a man who can’t decide if he’s one of the ‘smart’ or ‘stupid’ gays. Billy…
De-radicalisation programs are a nonsense
There is so much confused thinking about thinking. It is some people’s belief that all you have to do to…
A republic means a political president
The Australian Republican Movement (ARM) was founded on July 7, 1991. A few months later, Paul Keating deposed Bob Hawke…
Dead-weight drowning productivity
The green investments that threaten our future with their failures
The speed of science
As a way to excuse the rushed, reckless, and misleading manner in which some of the Covid vaccines were manufactured…
Kanye’s Wild West
What are we to make of Kanye’s latest stunt where he wore a shirt that read, ‘White Lives Matter’? Can…
The ‘consensus’ hoax
Is the adversarial nature of politics doomed? Despite what some members of the 47th Parliament often say, such as the…
From youth unemployment and welfare to the ADF
Australia currently has – among many others – four problems, which are related but which can be solved. The four…
Australia: welcomes ISIS brides, debates Novak Djokovic
The government is determined to allow ISIS brides back into the country but hasn’t made up its mind about Novak…
When is fascism not really fascism?
In his essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell wrote, ‘The word fascism has now no meaning.’ Last weekend, I…
Victoria’s talentless politicians forfeit right to govern
The decrepitude of Victorian politics as the November election approaches is eclipsed only by the obscene self-indulgence of its practitioners.…
A severe case of political amnesia
In Canberra, a severe case of political amnesia has just been detected. Not life-threatening, of course, just concerning for those…
Super-spreading Christophobia
Well, that did not take long. As we all know, a brand new CEO was forced out in record-breaking time.…
My CPAC turpitudes
I don’t have opinions. I have facts. They are repeatable and validated. Fact #1: No one has ever proven that…
A new age of Christian persecution
Centuries ago, in the early days of Christianity, those who chose to follow God and become Christians were often persecuted…
Hands off our Australian War Memorial!
Some years ago, I attended the annual congress of the NSW RSL. The keynote speaker was the Hon Dr Brendan…
Australia: a ship without a sail
As I look across the Australian landscape, a landscape I love and have appreciated since my youth, this Old Bushy…
