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

The Life of Zye – who will cry?

25 August 2024 1:56 pm

Here’s a macabre little story that illustrates where humanity is headed – let’s call it The Life of Zye even…

They nicked how much from her pay?!

24 August 2024 9:56 pm

The average Aussie woman is handing over 47 per cent of their income to the government

Albanese’s inevitable slide into a Whitlamesque economy

24 August 2024 9:21 pm

A common mindset held by too many on the left is that production is inevitable, and will be maintained irrespective…

Biology bows to gender identity

24 August 2024 10:33 am

It’s a bad day for biology. Sall Grover, founder of The Giggle for Girls app, has been ordered to pay…

To ensure support of key allies, Australia must get serious about defence

23 August 2024 9:49 pm

Amidst the bluster of Paul Keating’s recent intervention into the security debate by declaring Australia’s the Aukus pact risks turning…

Green foods fail Olympics

23 August 2024 6:45 pm

The first occupants of the Olympics village in Paris quickly taught the caterers that athletes did not favour their ‘climate-friendly’…

Déjà voodoo economics

23 August 2024 3:17 pm

Economic laws are like gravity: they don’t care about good intentions

The class lines of rape

23 August 2024 11:15 am

Whenever I write about rape the articles are usually pretty popular around my own set of feminists, I’m not sure…

Picking your poison

23 August 2024 2:00 am

There are no perfect choices in human affairs. We are always in the game of trying to find the least…

The ‘corporate greed’ fallacy

22 August 2024 10:55 pm

At a recent campaign event in North Carolina, Kamala Harris became the latest politician to diagnose corporate greed as the…

How to see the US election

22 August 2024 12:51 pm

We are under three months out from the US election. Let me give you two different analyses of what will…

Taming the wildfires

22 August 2024 2:38 am

As we approach Spring, there is a heightened chance that wildfires might develop across Australia. The perennial question as to…

Could Australian keyboard warriors be extradited to the UK?

22 August 2024 2:24 am

It is only natural for people who follow politics closely to reflect on the anti-immigration riots that sprang up in…

Gene-splicing our way to success?

20 August 2024 10:21 pm

Having only recently re-watched the superb Jurassic Park Spielberg film based on Michael Crichton’s book (of the same name), I…

Labor’s recession we didn’t have to have

20 August 2024 8:11 pm

Federal spending is set to increase to its highest level since the mid-1980s, pandemic spending aside, at 26.6 per cent…

Welcome to Country!

20 August 2024 8:00 pm

Stuart Ballantyne explains why the Human Rights Commission should be chasing him

We Brits never realised how good we had it under Boris Johnson

20 August 2024 10:13 am

Was it worth losing him over a bit of cake?

Rome was exhausted by its greatness. Are we next?

20 August 2024 2:00 am

Modern male thoughts gravitate to the Roman Empire

Women and wealth: inheriting $3.2 trillion in the next decade

20 August 2024 1:30 am

What a turnabout. Half a century ago feminism was all about celebrating women’s success. There was huge excitement about women’s…

Making masculinity toxic

20 August 2024 1:00 am

No man should feel ashamed of being male

Defending Dave: Australia’s biggest online rally for free speech

19 August 2024 4:22 pm

Aussies send stern warning to politicians and bureaucrats

NAPLAN: doom, gloom, and blame

19 August 2024 4:12 pm

Does anyone have the courage to save our education system?

Dave Pellowe reported to HRC for replacing Welcome to Country with Psalm 24:1

19 August 2024 12:54 pm

The Church and State Australia (CSA) ministry founder, Dave Pellowe, faces a complaint put before the Queensland Human Rights Commission…

Miracle worker Tim’s stellar career in the Labor circus

19 August 2024 12:20 pm

Say what you like about Tim Pallas – his career achievements are, by any measure, remarkable. From abattoir worker to…

UK puts misogyny and Islamic terrorism on an equal footing

18 August 2024 10:11 pm

UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced Labour’s plan to expand the Terrorism Act of 2000 to incorporate acts of…