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

‘Mean Girls’ will shape the next election

28 March 2022 12:00 pm

Liberals are basking in schadenfreude after allegations of bullying were levelled at Labor’s Senate leadership team of Penny Wong, Katy…

Teaching sexual consent in high schools

28 March 2022 9:00 am

Last month it was announced all Australian high school students are to be taught about sexual consent and coercion. Mandatory…

Judge Jackson and the ‘Cult of the Woke’

28 March 2022 4:00 am

The Great Awokening has reached every nook and cranny of our culture. And the impact of this disease is now…

A South Australian perspective

27 March 2022 12:00 pm

Inserted appropriately between Australia’s buttock states – Western Australia and Victoria – lies that curious social phenomenon of South Australia.…

Gareth Ward and the presumption of innocence

27 March 2022 4:00 am

I live in Kiama, a village just south of Wollongong. It is the centre of a small state seat. Its…

Those are ‘my’ islands!

26 March 2022 12:00 pm

While the West inflicts sanctions on Russia, Japan has decided to call it quits on a high-profile peace negotiation regarding…

What is a ‘woman’?

26 March 2022 4:00 am

I happen to know that a woman is an adult female. And these days, that makes me a veritable genius.…

Today’s forecast? More ‘doom and gloom’

25 March 2022 2:00 pm

I am weary of forever reading and listening to doom merchants. They are everywhere, on the TV, radio, and all…

What the Great War taught us about ‘establishment thinking’

25 March 2022 12:00 pm

Establishment thinking can be lethal, especially when the establishment are the ‘elite’ and their prevailing paradigm is not adaptable enough…

Sydney University’s climate change agenda

25 March 2022 9:00 am

As a Sydney University Student in my final year of an undergraduate degree, the past three years have been a…

Daniel Andrews’ ‘casual’ betrayal of workers

25 March 2022 4:00 am

The Victorian government’s Sick Pay Guarantee, launched on March 14 of this year, provides taxpayer-funded sick and personal leave entitlements…

A year of death and of unknowing

24 March 2022 2:00 pm

Though we may still be in the early stages of a long, bitter conflict, an estimated 7,000 Russians and 1,300 Ukrainians…

You can’t save the world with Net Zero

24 March 2022 12:00 pm

Ever since socialism’s credibility collapsed in 1990, environmentalism has increasingly dominated the political agenda. Central to this was the global…

Stop saying, ‘Where are the feminists?’

24 March 2022 9:00 am

While Lia Thomas was showing us how gender identity ideology destroys women’s sport at the NCAA swimming championships, a group…

Net zero or national defence? Morrison must choose

24 March 2022 4:00 am

Former cosmopolitan elite-in-chief, Adrian Blundell-Wignall (a former head of the OECD) let the mask slip earlier this month when he…

Tricky tragedies: Ukraine and Afghanistan

23 March 2022 2:00 pm

Six months ago the West’s media was focused on the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan. The evening news was full of…

‘Gave jade, received brick’

23 March 2022 12:00 pm

A pregnant woman and her unborn child lost their lives after the bombing of the hospital at Mariupol. The terrified,…

Vicious, mean and never wrong - Labor’s ‘mean girls’

23 March 2022 9:00 am

The revelations since the recent tragic death of former Senator Kimberley Kitching have laid bare the despicable, vicious nature of…

Gender ideology nearly covered up a sexual assault

23 March 2022 4:00 am

A woman was raped on a single-sex ward at an unnamed hospital in Britain last year. Compounding her trauma was…

Chasing ‘freedom’ at the federal election

22 March 2022 2:00 pm

This coming federal election, Australia is at a crossroads. The disillusionment with the major parties created during the years of…

Daniel Andrews is destroying casual work

22 March 2022 12:00 pm

We have seen the warning signs for a number of years. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who grows more detestable from…

Don’t erase Russian art over Ukraine

22 March 2022 9:00 am

The outrage felt by many in the West in the face of increasing Russian aggression and the trails of blood…

Putin’s Playbook is playing Americans for suckers

22 March 2022 4:00 am

Perhaps the biggest mistake of the American intelligence world is to have imagined that Russians think like Americans. ‘They don’t,’…

We must record why Australians got vaccinated

21 March 2022 2:00 pm

As the war in Ukraine takes over our TV screens and vaccination becomes a memory, there’s an important question we…

Installing ‘Woke’ at the National Gallery of Australia

21 March 2022 12:00 pm

If you’re a gender diverse, sexually ambiguous, disabled, Indigenous vegan who can draw a bit, now would be a good…