In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Our children do not belong to the State
The Culture of Schools and the Problem of Change was the first book I read when I was moving professionally…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E3: Did Mr Bean destroy the EV market?! James Allan, Augusto Zimmermann, and Nick Cater
James Allan ponders the fate of Ron DeSantis after stepping aside to give Donald Trump a free run at the…
Live not by lies
The day he was arrested by the KGB, Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released Live Not by Lies. It…
Shocking mismanagement of the Opera House protests must be investigated
What was the NSW government thinking?
The blind men and the elephant
We are at an extraordinary time in history. In some ways, it feels great to be alive to tell the…
Woke ideology and totalitarianism
We all know by now that society’s Adventures in Wokeland are never-ending. Thankfully, these sagas have become so annoying that…
Australia is a house divided
Home ownership is more than a financial investment; it’s a cornerstone of the Australian identity
Conservatives have no solutions, or so the story goes
...and socialists have solutions that are abhorrent
Alexandra Marshall Live S2E2: Leilani Dowding & Ben Beattie
UK commentator and Mark Steyn ‘Angel’ Leilani Dowding reveals the horrifying depravity of modern scientific testing which tortures tens of…
The Greens are committed to giving 16-year-olds the vote
Take power back and unf#*k our future, say the Greens
Jacinta Allan’s hypocrisy over Kanye West
There are plenty of antisemites in the streets of Melbourne
The latest grenade for the Trump-hating media
Analysts in a new study say they can conclude that 28.2 per cent of respondents who voted by mail in…
Politicians must permit Australians to speak up
At a recent public meeting in regional Australia, I asked what politicians could do to capitalise on the current mood…
The dying of Down Under
A lot of Australians are dying. Many politely say: We need to know why. …but really now, how long must polite…
Where did 50 billion dollars go?
50 billion dollars… It’s money we spend to achieve a capable defence force every year. We are supposed to get…
Double Shot S2E2: Climate change on trial… Kerry Wakefield, Ralph Schoellhammer, and Daniel Wild
Kerry Wakefield brings us the latest on the Mark Steyn trial where climate science has gone under the microscope and…
Does Albo’s backflip really make you better off?
Anthony Albanese has backflipped on his promise to deliver the stage three tax cuts in full. He has proposed a…
Misunderstanding ‘excellence’
The Sydney (Patronising) Film Festival has introduced ‘the world’s largest cash prize for Indigenous filmmaking’ at $35,000. My heart sank at…
Plucking the income goose
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s celebrated Finance Minister, is reported to have said, ‘The act of taxation consists in so plucking…
In praise of carbon dioxide
‘The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide abundance in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so…
Power to the people: the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables
One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, spoke at the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables on the lawn in front of Parliament House in…
Spotlight on the International Criminal Court
As both parties claim vindication following the ICJ ruling – less known are the important efforts of French human rights…
The war against merit strikes its lowest chord yet, thanks to the London Philharmonic Orchestra
By now, my readers should know that the one thing I like to do more than write words is write…
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Everyone behaving badly, but only one is pronounced guilty in a social justice outcome
