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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Evil genius at work

11 April 2022 4:00 am

Imagine a sexual encounter involving a woman shagging a man, sitting on top of him, bouncing cheerfully. How could she…

Ardern and Clark’s next pandemic will be horrid

10 April 2022 12:00 pm

Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern have been very mean to the world’s Covid Cinderella, New Zealand. Just when we thought…

Letter to the Prime Minister

10 April 2022 4:00 am

Dear Sir, You have spent the last three years trying to fight emergent problems. You have introduced and used some…

Australia needs a leader willing to ‘lead’

9 April 2022 11:00 am

Australia’s first foray into international politics occurred in the shape of Billy Hughes. Has there ever been such a whirlwind…

Truth? Safety? Liberty? Something has gone horribly wrong

9 April 2022 4:00 am

When making important decisions about what drug we are going to inject into our bodies, we consider factors such as…

Roasting or warming? The absent apocalypse…

8 April 2022 2:00 pm

Earth’s average temperature is a balance between heat radiated in from the sun, out from Earth, and generated internally. Almost…

Paper friends vs blood brothers

8 April 2022 1:00 pm

Forget Klaus Schwab’s harmonious ‘world without borders’ and the fanciful global monoculture than can be ruled over by a panel…

Disarming in the ‘Cultural Wars’

8 April 2022 12:00 pm

The culture wars over gender policy have recently warmed back up again, with athletes like Lia Thomas and politicians like…

Freedom of speech? Tell ’em they’re dreaming

8 April 2022 9:00 am

Last week, the High Court released the details of its judgment in the case of Ruddick v. Commonwealth of Australia. (Disclosure…

The IPCC say the world is ending! (Again?)

8 April 2022 4:00 am

In the latest ‘now or never!’ since the ‘last now or never!’ the United Nations has warned the world that…

Australia needs a new beginning

7 April 2022 12:00 pm

The Marxists and the Woke brigade have relentlessly marched through our society and institutions, causing a national crisis. We are…

Mr & Mrs Smith: the war against marriage and masculinity

7 April 2022 12:00 pm

It was the slap that was heard all around the world. Will Smith stormed the stage at the 2022 Oscars…

Schools must return to a classical education

7 April 2022 9:00 am

Evidenced by this week’s international CiRCE conference on classical education involving a number of Australian and American speakers, the good news…

The roar of waste

7 April 2022 4:00 am

Watching the Burdekin Falls Dam with around six metres of water going over the spillway following recent rain in the…

The political crevice on patriotism

6 April 2022 2:00 pm

It used to be the case that writers, including many who were radical and left-wing, would enter the fray.  The…

The story of oil

6 April 2022 9:00 am

Don’t look to experts for predictions. ‘Experts’ are just as surprised by everyone else at what actually transpires each day…

‘Eat ze bug!!!’

6 April 2022 4:00 am

Over the last few years, a bureaucratic body comprised of members from most countries around the world, has been undertaking…

The once and future Prince of Parramatta

5 April 2022 2:00 pm

Get on any bus speeding down Victoria Road and (on the right one), you land in Parramatta.  It used to…

Elon Musk – the superhero to Silicon Valley’s villainy

5 April 2022 1:50 pm

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is living the Marvel super-hero dream of a tech billionaire who flies around in space fighting…

A pledge to stop using ‘Woke’

5 April 2022 12:00 pm

‘It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought ……

Renewables subsidies: $22 billion by 2030

5 April 2022 9:00 am

Energy Minister Angus Taylor noted that the Commonwealth Budget added $1.3 billion to assist uneconomic renewable energy, bringing the total…

Too late to stop Xi’s militarisation of the Solomon Islands?

5 April 2022 4:00 am

News that the Chinese Communist Party will be allowed to station warships and troops in the Solomon Islands as part…

Climate Change lessons from King Canute

4 April 2022 2:00 pm

It is claimed that the legendary King Canute had his chair placed at the low water mark and proclaimed, ‘Not…

Modi’s modus operandi – can Australia predict India?

4 April 2022 12:20 pm

If things go wrong in the Pacific, which is possible given Beijing’s plan to station military personnel in the Solomon…

Renewables: the pandemic of wishful thinking

4 April 2022 12:00 pm

There is a transition underway in our electricity sector. Fundamentally, the people financing, regulating, designing, and operating these systems, are…