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Cash is King (for now)
Nicola Salvi’s Baroque Trevi Fountain sits in the centre of Rome. It is a relatively modern addition, built on the…
Sydney: no petrol or diesel cars, no gas, no future
New South Wales is in for an energy nightmare, and it makes no difference whether they vote Labor, Green, or…
The perversion of the English language
Language is a powerful vessel. It defines how we think, speak, write, and communicate. If you control language, you control…
Australia died when Zoe Buhler was handcuffed
On September 2, 2020, a young pregnant woman in Ballarat, Zoe Buhler, had several police officers turn up at her…
Power crisis in Europe
As summer mellows into autumn, Europeans are beginning to prepare for winter. This is bad news, as the winter of…
Apologies are not enough
Last week in the Parliament of Victoria, I called for Premier Daniel Andrews to apologise to a Ballarat mum who…
Father’s Day
Father’s Day is too often written off as a Hallmark Holiday. Yes, it is a recent social construct, but when…
Cancelling the Cashless Debit Card: ideology trumps reality
The Albanese/Labor government was elected with a manifesto that included discontinuation of the compulsory cashless debit card (CDC); the bill…
Higher taxes: that old chestnut?
Why was I not surprised when Ross Garnaut started touting higher taxes for the mining industry to solve our current cost…
The optics of dictatorship: Joe Biden
To be fair, US President Joe Biden makes a lot of gaffes – and that’s when he is coherent enough…
Celebrating Australia’s National Flag
One of the truly unique stories of Australia’s National Flag is that it was designed by public competition. In 1901,…
Killing society with kindness
Those with modern sensibilities might say that CNN has been caught fat-shaming people by reporting that Covid death rates are…
Pride and shame
I first read Pride and Prejudice in a feminist theory course. I wanted to be cynical about it and notice…
Australia’s miracle of multiculturalism…?
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Labor’s victory in the last federal election in May is a victory for multiculturalism.…
To hell with the transport union
The Sydney Rail, Tram, and Bus Union has rejected the NSW government’s offer and is planning to continue striking. I am…
From Canada, with madness
The Covid safety regime highlighted how intensely ‘Mother States’ dislike independent men
Dreaming of a Constitution without colour
It is the objective of every writer to avoid cliché, yet I have found there is a category of great…
Dangerous energy politics
Electricity has properties that require supply and demand to always balance every few seconds. This means, firstly, that there has…
Tony Burke’s gig ‘cancer’
In recently calling gig work a ‘cancer’, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has made it pretty clear what’s in store…
Giving racism an Aussie voice
Our beloved country under Labor’s proposed ‘Voice’ will become one gigantic apartheid state. Australia will boast apartheid and racial segregation…
Turnbull shouted out of university
Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was forced to leave a lecture at Sydney University Law Society after he was…
Crushing Truth Social in its crib
As I write this article, the following lead paragraph is circulating on the only conservative online media platform in America: The…
Why are businesses arguing for higher wages?
One of the more bizarre aspects in the lead-up to the Jobs and Skills Summit is the spectacle of business…
Dispelling myths about water
The myths about water are many. They range from Australia being the driest continent on earth, to all of our…
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