In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Tough choices make strong people
In Australia, our choices can often be slippery. In Ukraine, choices are as hard and sharp as the spiky steel…
My son was found not guilty
Last week, a long ordeal finally ended for an ordinary Australian family. Their son, Lucas, was found not guilty of…
Carbon fear is the new normal
The thing I find most frightening about the World Economic Forum is that they keep saying the quiet bits out…
The Carbon-Credit diet plan, 2022
It’s been a long two years of lockdown and it’s fair to say that all those Uber Eats added up,…
A tough week to be a Victorian Liberal
No doubt, it has been a tough week to be a Liberal in Victoria. You do not find many politicians…
This is freedom: Isle of Man Tourist Trophy
On the last Saturday in May, the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy begins. It is the most important thing in…
St Greta’s school for the environment?
It is conceivable that sometime soon a group of parents and teachers will establish an entire school devoted to the…
Career politicians destroyed community votes
Writing this, I realise that Australian politics has been reshaped in the last week. This election is the first real…
Concerning cosmetic cowboys
My wife and I were walking by the beach the other evening. We got talking about wrinkles and scars, tattoos…
What’s next for the Liberal Democrats?
The Senate count is complex and won’t be complete for another week or more. However, around 60 per cent of…
Pakistan’s Imran Khan goes off the deep end
The fallout from Pakistan’s recent vote of no-confidence – that saw Imran Khan ousted in favour of Prime Minister Shehbaz…
It’s the economy, stupid…
Quite the wreckage, huh? 17 seats down, a host of future stars put to the sword, and the Prime Minister…
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…
