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Re-vamping the Pacific: will Australia ‘step up’ or ‘step out’?
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi…
It was International Lesbian Visibility Week…
It’s International Lesbian Visibility Week. I don’t know if that means lesbians will be getting around in Hi-Vis jackets, or…
Gender dysphoria: a modern pandemic?
I should start this article by stating my credentials. I am not a psychologist, psychiatrist, or paediatrician; however, over the…
Koala apocalypse? It ain’t science
Koalas eat soft young shoots. They cannot survive on a diet of healthy mature eucalypt leaves. When Aboriginal people maintained…
Nuke or no nuke?
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine on February 24 of this year. Within three days of commencing…
Dear Anthony Albanese, please calm the children
This open letter is meant to reassure you and ask you to – in turn – reassure Australia’s children that…
Net Zero means ‘no coal’
The reality has finally dawned on Labor that Net Zero means no new coal projects. This is something that the…
Newspoll: a pox on both your houses!
‘A pox on both your houses!’ That famous line from Romeo and Juliet looks like being dusted off by voters…
Labor’s ship of fools
Last week I predicted that Anthony Albanese would continue his campaign, Riding Solo, fronting the media without help from his…
Who the ‘bloody hell’ are the Libs?
The 1987 election was the first I took interest in. Seeing two politicians of conviction, Bob Hawke and John Howard,…
The Musky scent of freedom
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has put a ring on it. This morning it was announced that social media platform and…
Taking the mickey out of Mickey
There’s a sad trend in Western society of late to erase childhood from the experience of childhood, a sort of…
Australia’s major parties: censorship, thoughtcrime and suppression
By most measures and standards, Australia is a beacon of freedom – a state where any citizen can espouse and…
Stoking the fires of energy policy
Stung from previous election losses, the ALP is at pains to deny that it will introduce a carbon tax. The…
Polling payday for pollies
Politics is big business in Australia. The major parties rake in stupendous amounts of donations every election cycle and have…
Fair go, mate!
The first time I heard the phrase ‘fair go!’ I was a young reporter new to Australia from Britain and…
Restoring Menzies’ Australia
I came to Australia from India in December 2000 where I had been a senior civil servant fighting socialist policy…
The endless repeat of history
Many of our collective disasters are shaped by a lack of imagination. We tend to privilege what we know or…
Lest we forget
For the youngest two generations, the shadow of war has fallen into myth. It is a story bored (and increasingly…
Two million reasons to be optimistic
The two million data points provided by NSW Health in 2022 paint a picture about the current severity of Covid…
New Zealand ‘trusts’ China on extradition
New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, under Ardern’s Labour government, has set another scary precedent in relation to China. ‘I don’t think…
Happy families vs noisy activism
I have a genuine problem this election concerning which political party will get my consent to govern. The problem posed…
Once a socialist, always a socialist
I remember the first time I sat in the old town square in Poznan, Poland. I was so taken by…
An unholy affair: wooing religious voters on the cheap
It may be something in the air during the Easter period (or coincidence…?) but over the past couple of weeks,…
Greenwich threatens Perrottet’s minority government
Imagine a government falling because its leader dared to assert that girls should play sport against girls. You might not…
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