In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
Vaccine coercion turns voters off the majors
Australians who have felt coerced into vaccination will spurn the major parties on election day, data suggests. Instead, their vote…
The pregnant man emoji and other absurdities
The world was recently stunned to hear a US Supreme Court nominee tell the Senate what ‘progress’ it was to…
Rich Uncle Albo’s shared equity nightmare
For the worst-crafted, most ineffectual policy of this election campaign it would be hard to go past Rich Uncle Albo’s…
Inflation for dummies
My party, the Liberal Democrats, has far more nerdy economists among its members than any other party. It seems low…
Fiscal vandalism alive and well in ‘Danistan’
Dodgy Labor Party politicking and fiscal vandalism are the enduring hallmarks of Daniel Andrews’ leftist government which, in just six…
The fallacious Fauci flips
Why haven’t they fired Dr Anthony Fauci? Although Fauci had been given the task of leading America – and by…
Waiter, can I get some more ‘Anglican’ in this activism?
In what sense is an Anglican school that rejects Anglican teaching in order to keep non-Anglican families happy still an…
Morrison’s ‘pitch and miss’ to small business
Last week Morrison made his pitch for the small business vote. It fell dead flat. That’s strange really. If you…
We get the politicians we deserve
Can our leaders really reduce the price of lettuce? That and other pie in the sky expectations were canvassed in…
Men need our support
Over twenty years ago, Federal Member of Parliament Greg Wilton took his own life. The tragedy was the culmination of a…
The politics of an energy dystopia
We are seeing unprecedented prices in the Australian gas and electricity wholesale markets. The first five days of May saw…
Depp v. Heard: trials and tribulations
If you are interested in litigation and court cases, your latest obsession is the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial……
Get wet, end up drowned
Soggy Liberals under attack from the Climate 200 mob have no one to blame except themselves. They walked out into…
