In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Silencing Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie, award-winning author and figure of fury to the Iranian regime, has been stabbed yesterday while giving a lecture…
The Liberals’ worst enemy: themselves
Reading Morning Double Shot Editor Terry Barnes’ piece on Friday made me think of the history of the Liberal party and how,…
Amnesty International’s shame
While writer Myroslav Marynovych was a political prisoner of the USSR from 1977-87, he received letters from supporters who were…
Eat beef, save the planet
Yet again, farmers are under attack. This time, it is the beef industry because, apparently, cattle burp and fart out…
A voice of virtue?
I’m just going to come out and say what we’re all thinking – the Voice to Parliament is state-sanctioned racism.…
Spinning out of control
Every time it seems society has reached peak idiocy, something else pops up on social media that makes us question…
Australia ignores the tragedy of Tavistock
In the concerning world of Woke radical gender theory – where school children are taught that sex and gender are…
Welcome to Coles
Can you find a Coles staff member to scan your groceries after 8pm? If only they did acknowledgement of customer…
Should parents object to school ‘rainbow days’?
Last year, a new Principal started at our children’s school. One of her first initiatives was to hold Wear It…
The Liberals are totally rooted
I’ve been a member of the Liberal party for over forty years. In that time, it’s known great highs, and…
Release the tape!
In the blue corner, we have Senator Jacinta Price who it is blindingly obvious has a heart of gold with…
We must rescue the good bit of the ABCC
It’s pretty easy to understand the politics behind the Albanese government’s shutting down the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).…
When truth is flummoxed by sophistry
Having watched the inexperienced Albanese government go from fighting a real pandemic threat in Covert to now apparently totally absorbed…
Against the ‘Karenocracy’
Are we governed by ‘Karens’? For the uninitiated, a ‘Karen’ is a synecdoche for a type of affluent and out-of-touch woman…
Healthy reef defies dubious science
‘Peer-reviewed’ is not interchangeable with ‘established fact’ or ‘beyond question’. It used to be an acknowledgement that others in the…
Pandemic ‘science’ in sports is a bit wonky
Cricket is played by a small number of people spread out in a vast paddock. This, however, did not stop…
Healthy Great Barrier Reef, healthy environmental scandal
The release of the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s Annual Summary Report on Coral Reef Condition for 2021/22 has exposed a major…
Infectious disease dominates our roost
Infectious disease has been a deep-seated and inescapable feature of Australian life since the early days of settlement. Over the…
Free Speech vs. Drag Queens
After almost three years and substantial legal fees, my fight for free speech goes to court. It’s also your fight…
What would the Voice say?
The Gruen Transfer, the ABC’s comedy show about advertising, has a segment in which host Wil Anderson asks, ‘What would Putin/Palmer/Trump do?’…
Lidia Thorpe for President?!
When we consider which eminent citizen amongst us we might place our trust in if Australia were ever to become…
Nuclear: the age of immortal energy
‘Carbon dioxide poses a dilemma for the radical environmentalists. Since nuclear reactors emit almost no carbon dioxide, how can one…
Lozza is a legend
Laurence Fox – the British actor cancelled for famously flopping over in exhaustion after being dismissed as a ‘white, privileged male’ by…
Constitutional change could be catastrophic
Politicians seek constitutional reform to expand their power, not serve the people
Unfair contracts
Get ready for a profound disruption to some core big business operations in Australia. The Albanese government has committed to…
