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Will war end the climate alarmist zeal of the central banks?
Faced with implacable opposition from the Senate, Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s pick for supervising banks within the Federal Reserve…
Labor doesn’t ‘walk the talk’ on women
Despite what the Labor Party – and the wacky Woke may think – Conservative and Liberal women have always been…
In the beginning…
When does a country, or land, belong to somebody or a group of people? Is it after they have moved…
Lies, damned lies, and Covid statistics
New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet lied. The New South Wales Health Department lied. The question remains, did other state…
Brad Hazzard’s health hypocrisy continues
Well, here we are again. Last week, I wrote a piece explaining the unscientific nature of the New South Wales…
Get ready for ‘campaign confusion’
Things are different since the great election overreach of 2019. You can sense the change. We need to get with…
Celebrating the secret ballot 166 years on
On March 19, Australians come together to celebrate what may be one of the least appreciated aspects of our democracy.…
Liberal Democrats in the fight for South Australia
South Australia’s state election is set to kick off on Saturday where Liberal Premier Steven Marshall and his team will…
Sorry kids, there’s no ‘duty of care’ on climate change
In news that would surprise only the most casual of observers, the inestimably appealable Judge Mordecai Bromberg has once more…
Managing ‘misinformation’ in the world of deep-fake
The world is increasingly revolving around data with each year that passes. Every technological advancement or new iteration of the…
Radical gender theory starts in kindergarten
A recent research paper titled Parents’ perspectives on the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity in K-12 schooling: results from an…
Virtuous ABC’s parallel universe
ABC Managing Director, David Anderson, has devoted his entire career to the national broadcaster. It shows. In a recent extraordinary…
Australia’s declining volunteer society
Expectations of the role of the federal government rose substantially during the bushfires which spread across the eastern states in…
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one… On October 25,…
Why Ukraine matters – a short telegram
Seventy-six years ago in a US embassy after dark, America’s man in Moscow dispatched a message that would set the…
The bullying of Kimberley Kitching
In-depth reports from ideologically-opposite sources – Shaun Carney of The Age and Sharri Markson of The Australian – appear to…
The ‘Hazzard’ of government health
‘But mummy, am I going to die?’ Such a statement isn’t something anyone wants to hear. Yet it happened. It…
Power not poverty
‘The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.’ – Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is…
‘Warmists’ believe good governments can stop bad weather
What are we to make of politicians and commentators blaming this year’s floods on the Morrison government? Hyper-partisanship explains some…
Pope Francis must resign
Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope for the ostensible reasons of stemming the flow of the faithful away from the Church…
Ukraine-Russia war: have we learned the lessons of history?
War in Europe is well underway and within the first fortnight, most are wondering what effect the range of trade…
What happens to activism when the click-bait frenzy ends?
The news of a man who has become pregnant probably won’t make the right-leaning tabloid media like it used to.…
The war front is closer than you might like
Trouble at home, trouble abroad. Australia is being challenged at a number of levels, but there are some common themes.…
A Twitter war could bring down the International Space Station
‘Twitter is not real life!’ insist ‘professional’ political commentators. Their denials grow weaker as the prime ministers and presidents of…
Muzzling children to keep politicians happy
The Victorian government has finally scrapped mask mandates for most indoor settings as the number of Omicron cases continue to fall, and…
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