In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Australia’s vaping experiment has failed
The Australian government’s medical, prescription-only model for nicotine vaping was introduced on October 1, 2021, and has been a resounding policy failure.…
Political gaslighting
When it comes to political analysis, Shakespeare may not get the credit he deserves. One of his most memorable lines…
NSW: holding Farage to ransom
There’s something pitiful about the ‘great state of NSW’ knotting its knickers over a political figure that passes as a…
Paying the rent with our national parks
‘The NSW Government recognises that land title is central to the development of a new model for Aboriginal joint management. Accordingly,…
Why I voted for Giorgia Meloni
As an Italian citizen resident abroad, I have the right to vote in Italian elections and referenda. While in past…
Social licences for law firms
There is something very frightening about the future of society if law firms are expected to maintain their ‘social licences…
Climate anxiety is free to disrupt
By backing in the worst extremes of climate hysteria, Australian courts – and our justice system in general – are…
Meloni’s Italy scares the Woke
There are going to be a lot of ridiculous headlines as hysterical left-wing publications come to terms with the (presumed)…
Red tape locks pensioners out of work
On the campaign trail, now Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stressed repeatedly that his government would ‘change the way that politics…
What about Armenia?
Recently, a few hundred Australians of Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian descent took to the streets of Sydney’s CBD to protest…
FitzSimons and Price won’t see eye to eye
Public discourse is under threat, and ironically, the progressive cause is to blame. This was exemplified by the recent spat…
No, Albo. We don’t need more women at work
Unsurprisingly, one of the things to come out of the recent Jobs and Skills Summit was a greater emphasis on women in…
Only a fool would ditch the Crown
The criticism of last week’s National Day of Mourning for Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the media coverage…
Get your ‘science’ out of my face
As if we haven’t had enough of politicians in our faces in the Peoples Republic of Victoria in the last…
Cuba: the communist climate criminal kids ignore
When it comes to socialist and communist dictatorships, environmental groups fall silent. There is an unwillingness to criticise these oil-heavy…
McSteamy to Scary?
When Brett Sutton shot to fame in the wake of the Covid outbreak I admit I fell for him. Hook,…
Argentina’s socialist demons are coming for the West
How did we arrive at the position where, throughout the Western world, political decisions to undermine the cheapest and most…
The Muzak of activism
Last week I heard the song Beds are Burning played at least three times in the space of a few…
Iranian women fight, Western feminists hide
One of the most powerful speeches I ever heard was delivered in a casual meeting of the NSW Rostrum public…
Ardern ‘an extremely poor substitute’ for the Prince
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has stood in for Prince William at a UN conference, describing herself as ‘an…
The old vague; finally breathless
‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth…
No unity under a political president
For everyone who supports the idea of retaining the monarchy in Australia’s Constitution, there is one very important question that…
