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Education or indoctrination? Babies and toddlers taught LGBTQ
Last Wednesday was my son’s last day at his daycare centre. It had been a good place for him, starting…
Woke bureaucraziness and the Libs
The current Australian Liberal Party’s manifesto states that they believe in ‘the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples’ and…
Recapturing the Liberal heartland
I have immense respect for Jim Allan – not least because he’s one of the board members to whom I…
Malinauskas: the dictator in the South?
South Australia has ended its Covid state of emergency after 793 days – only to immediately enshrine permanent ‘emergency’ powers…
We’re missing those subversive and dangerous ideas
The biggest shifts in culture have always come out of subcultures or scenes that go mainstream. It was mostly African…
Is this what ‘success’ looks like?
As someone who has been looking at Covid-related data since the outbreak of the pandemic and a resident of the…
Tanya Plibersek’s dark lord, Peter Dutton
Almost ten years in the wilderness, and Labor have learned nothing. Newly elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised on Sunday…
Bernie Finn: how the mighty have fallen
Two giants have fallen. One has been falling for quite some time and it looks like it will be broken…
Best show in town: Heard v. Depp
The skip-bin fire that is the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation trial will wrap up within days and then the nine-person…
Oh Ricky… Now look what you’ve done
One of the greatest speeches of the 21st century was given, surprisingly, at the 2020 Golden Globe awards. It was as…
Liberal-Turnbull tryst ends in tears
As scribes and commentators across the country sit down to write their thoughts on the political events of Saturday past,…
What would Menzies do?
Now the federal election is over, the triennial festival of finger pointing and bloodletting of the losing party can commence.…
Economic policy is like commanding the sea
As the story goes, Xerxes of Persia, during the invasion of Greece that played setting to the famous last stand…
Beyond Roe v. Wade
As the frenzy in America escalates around the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that challenges Roe v. Wade, I was reminded…
Democracy: a game of Blind Man’s Buff
This week’s election results should be of little surprise to those who pay attention to trends. I am referring particularly…
PRGuy and the future of the free press
PRGuy – the political activist on Twitter that no one will miss – has decided to ‘take a break’ now…
This is worse than we thought
It’s much worse than we thought. The ALP will govern in its own right, but will be forced into extreme…
Jim Allan, you’re dreamin’
James Allan’s take on the worst night on the Liberal Party’s history is, by and large, right. The leafy suburbs…
Labor chased Menzies’ forgotten people - and won
Grief – that was my feeling on election night. It was not a new emotion. Grief has followed me these…
Australia is already at Net Zero
Australia has a landmass of 7,692,024 square kilometres with a sparse inland population, greenhouse gas-emitting livestock, and heavy industry. Combined…
De-Carbonising the Liberal Moderates
The process of counting the casualties from the weekend’s political massacre continues. That hasn’t slowed Labor down. The first official…
Farewell to freedom
At face value, the 2022 federal election is a run-of-the-mill change of government election. In the post-Menzies era, the average…
The media’s obsession with crucifying Scomo
Scott Morrison and his faith have been the subject of national discussion for three years, and yet journalists still don’t…
Election 2022: lessons and consequences
This year’s federal election was insane. It was chaotic. It was all over the place. And it has catastrophic consequences…
Progressive or conservative? Αsk Deves
O me miserum; mea culpa! and other Latin phrases of a similar kind. The worst federal government in many years…
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