In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
MoodSnap! Technology for mental health
We’ve all become familiar with integrated app-based health platforms like Apple Health, Google Fit, and Fitbit allowing us to track…
Will Albo follow in the footsteps of Jacinda Ardern?
Will the Australian Labor Party follow in the footsteps of New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern? Australia is one of the least…
California’s Woke dreaming – is it time to wake up?
Some of us baby boomers remember the heady days of the flower power era; the spirit of peace and goodwill…
Pandemic reckoning: Australians deserve a review
It seems the pandemic has disappeared – from our TV screens at least. Last week, the Prime Minister and Opposition…
Samuel Griffith Society: 30 years standing up for the rule of law
The Samuel Griffith Society was established in 1992. Named after the first Chief Justice of the High Court, its motto is…
A masterclass in how to lose an election
If the Coalition loses the coming election, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Labor are pathetic, making promises without…
Australia set to sign Geneva’s Global Pandemic Treaty
The ‘New Normal’ of medical fascism is coming regardless of how Australians vote at the federal election. Having acquired a…
The Seinfeld election: a show about nothing
With the virus abating, and with the confected anger over supposed government inadequacies for compensation owed to those harmed by…
Progressives prefer to keep ‘their’ women ignorant
On extremely rare occasions, news stories about political focus groups reveal something interesting. Last Friday, Newscorp reported on a group…
Lockdowns did more harm than good
Third World v. First World: what’s the difference? In a nutshell, the way they make public policy. For the most…
Frocky horror picture show
Running alongside the gladiatorial spectacle of two men locked in verbal combat across Australia [Scomo and Albo] is another, only…
Sergeant Bruno’s big mistake
A Victorian policeman is under investigation for posting online that there are only two genders. And so he should be!…
Australia needs a Ron DeSantis
There is a craving for the principled defence of liberty in Australia, given our experience of reverting to a penal…
Miserable Ghost: a rite of passage for former Prime Ministers
What was the label that Malcom Turnbull gave to former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott after being ousted…
The NSW Department of Education must be held accountable
Here I was thinking the Covid madness was finally over, but gosh I should have known better than to imagine bureaucrats would…
The strong stink of an election on the nose
The Liberals cannot be trusted to control Australia without adult supervision, but to replace them with an ALP/Green/ABC/Teal government would…
Will Australia vote for freedom?
Freedom marches popped up across Australia in capital cities ahead of next week’s federal election. The messages written on their…
Nuclear: a powerful future
As a Merchant Navy navigator, I knew the range and durability of my ship were intrinsically limited to the fuel…
The spirit of conservative vision
One of the principal election strategies employed by Scott Morrison is the argument that Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party…
TweedleScomo and TweedleAlbo
As we watch our present Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, and the man who seeks to replace him, Anthony Albanese, crisscross…
Fifty shades of Covid
[Calm down, it’s satire.] She slowly slipped her mask down and removed her gloves. Then lowered her second mask. That…
To ‘crush and colonise’
The Russians may well love their children too, but many of their views about their war on Ukraine span a…
Will the ripples from Roe v. Wade reach Australia?
An American journalist, Caroline Reilly, re-tweeted a New York Times report of the firebombing of a Wisconsin anti-abortion headquarters, together with…
Courage, fantasy, and the arc of autocracy
Andriy Melnyk is the Ukrainian ambassador to Berlin. In early May he demanded the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, respond to…
Leadership delegated is leadership lost
Is anyone else old enough to remember when any corporate, political, or education leader, said something memorable? Something that left…
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