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Adam Bandt insults Australians by ditching flag
Ahead of a press conference with Greens Leader Adam Bandt earlier this week, a Greens staffer moved the Australian flag…
Boiling in the Culture Wars pot
In recent decades, the West – like the proverbial frog – has been blasé toward the rising temperature of the…
Greta furious over China’s new oil deal! (Just kidding)
Dragging Australia over the coals of climate guilt is practically a registered sport for the IPCC. Despite being a Carbon negative…
The working class revolution of common-sense
What we saw in Melbourne during the tradie riots was a supreme act of sound judgment. Only a fraternity of…
The Winter of discontent
To paraphrase from William Shakespeare’s Richard the Third – ‘Now is the winter of our discontent made inglorious by renewable…
The world’s most expensive flagpole
As soon as the New South Wales state government finishes putting the Aboriginal flag atop Sydney Harbour Bridge, they need…
Albo’s war against Capitalism
Seeking to disabuse critics of the notion that his interest and expertise in economics were Whitlamesque, Anthony Albanese released a…
Women’s rights triumph (sort of)
Far from the feminist Utopia, progressive politics underpinned by radical gender activism has created a generation of women too afraid…
From Istanbul, with confusion
Few cities stir the adventurer’s soul as Istanbul – that vast, sprawling mass straddling Europe and Asia which acts as…
Coal to the rescue?
What sort of a third-world country have we become, with an abundance of natural resources, that ‘load shedding’ or electricity…
Australia’s corporate Surveillance State
During the mid-20th century, George Orwell famously wrote a novel featuring the sinister embodiment of surveillance, the Big Brother State.…
The West: last refuge of the ‘Regressives’
Recently, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi made an address to the Iranian people, who have been protesting against the brutal Islamist…
Sir John Kerr: villain or victim?
Over the years since 1975, partisan players have mounted an ongoing campaign to vilify Sir John Kerr. They claim, variously,…
Social Licences: destroying energy with virtue
‘Social Licences’ are the mechanism by which governments can pick and choose favourites in the business world. They represent a…
The election and its discontents
So, the election has come and gone. It was a disappointing, loud, and ultimately vacuous show about nothing. It saw…
Renewable or reliable? Energy cannot be both
Australia’s new ALP government has gigantic green energy plans to be funded by electricity consumers and taxpayers. They promise (with…
Cook cancelled: when will we call this out as racism?
Peaceful explorer, cartographer, and navigator Captain James Cook has been removed from the Australia versus England Test match crystal Cook…
Covid encore performance for Justin Trudeau
Multi-jabbed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has Covid for the second time this year. Trudeau announced his latest helping of Covid on…
Wokeness, welfare, and societal decline
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Today’s fiddle is ‘Woke’ and it will be the West’s undoing if left unchecked. Busy…
The real cost of Albo’s minimum wage hike
No genius formula, ancient wisdom, or otherwise elaborate algorithm led the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to raise the national minimum…
Australians are being watched
If it’s not bad enough that Australians have had their retail habits monitored via the (ethically questionable) government Vaccine Passport…
Liberal Party: stewards of the ‘uncool economy’?
Much ink has already been spilled on how the Liberal Party is facing an identity crisis in the wake of…
Moneypox - sorry - Monkeypox
The World Health Organisation has decided to rebrand, er, rename the Monkeypox. WHO boss Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said today a new name…
Energy crisis: a call to professionals
Energy systems underpin modern life, but Australia’s systems are becoming increasingly fragile. A colleague recently asked me why more engineers…
Lindy Chamberlain’s case foreshadowed Covid mania
As the dust settles on Covid, many Australians are still trying to make sense of the radical hysteria that overtook so many…
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