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

Men can’t do anything right

14 March 2022 12:00 pm

Men can’t do anything right, and International Women’s Day proved it. The New Zealand All Blacks marked the day by…

The bride of tyranny

14 March 2022 9:00 am

The Trojan Horse of globalism is the extension of the world’s constant regional battles into terrifying wars that encompass the…

The era of unprecedented ignorance

14 March 2022 4:00 am

What else could go wrong? First, we had a global pandemic. Then we had to deal with the devastating impacts…

Speak loudly and wave around wet lettuce: Morrisonian national insecurity

13 March 2022 12:00 pm

The expression, ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’, is attributed to former American President Theodore Roosevelt. Imperfect as his…

Is anyone bothering to calculate the ‘carbon-cost’ of war?

13 March 2022 6:00 am

Does anyone still buy the headline that our world leaders believe we’re on the verge of a climate apocalypse? The…

Where are the strategists and tacticians?

12 March 2022 11:00 am

There’s nothing like the whiff of distant grapeshot to energise Australia’s plethora of armchair military strategists. Military professionals, on the…

The last few days (of chaos)

12 March 2022 12:49 am

The afternoon sunlight creeps down the wall and as the day trades its heat for the intensity of evening’s deeper…

Each-Way Albo - I can be Bob Hawke!

11 March 2022 2:00 pm

[Calm down, it’s satire.] Labor leader Anthony Albanese has promised to say anything anywhere in order to win the upcoming…

Practicalities in addressing autocrats’ aggression

11 March 2022 12:00 pm

The shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that it demonstrated a form of aggression most people thought belonged…

Ukraine’s ‘disposable’ men

11 March 2022 9:00 am

The tragic video of the Ukrainian father breaking down when saying goodbye to his family was heart-wrenching. But even as it attracted…

The Greens call for ‘Truth and Justice’

11 March 2022 4:00 am

Many Australians would be understandably sceptical of the Greens’ call for a ‘Truth and Justice Commission’ to conduct ‘truth-telling’ with…

Logic is still dead in Dom’s domain

10 March 2022 2:00 pm

Throughout the Covid-era there has been a significant lack of logic in decisions made and restrictions imposed. Double standards have…

Mullumbimby saves itself while SES continue with vaccine mandates

10 March 2022 12:00 pm

‘It’s frustrating to think we are forgotten…’ said a member of the Mullumbimby community, after they were left without government help…

Brisbane mud army 2.0 – a lesson in liberalism

10 March 2022 9:00 am

It was 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon and the humidity was stifling – even for Brisbane. ‘Get some selfies for your…

You’re bad, we’re good – the binary politics of 2022

10 March 2022 4:00 am

The current advertising campaign for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers pens a letter to the perceived closed minds of Australia accusing…

CSIRO-LGBTQQIAAP+

9 March 2022 12:00 pm

Don’t expect Australia’s peak science body to come up with a vaccine against ‘wokeness’. They are, themselves, riddled with it.…

Zelenskyy and Ukraine are unifying the West

9 March 2022 9:00 am

Lamenting an old England disappearing under modernity, Philip Larkin wrote in his poem Going, Going:  Most things are never meant. The…

Sharks, technocrats, and the post-human delusion

9 March 2022 4:00 am

Politics never interested me until a spate of shark attacks occurred at my local Ballina beach next to the river…

Green power or confusing failure?

8 March 2022 12:00 pm

I am at a loss to understand the ‘Green Movement’. I fully understand their concern about the use of fossil…

Capitulation complete for Ukraine-Russia conflict

8 March 2022 9:00 am

It cannot be any clearer: 141 countries have condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate in a vote…

Why is India holding back?

8 March 2022 4:00 am

India, like Australia, America, and Japan, is a full member of the ‘Quad’ – the new political group formed to…

The Central Bank Digital Currency is on the horizon

7 March 2022 12:30 pm

When Covid spread its shady particles around the globe, the borders of nations were profoundly meaningful as travel restrictions were…

The danger of hubris

7 March 2022 9:00 am

As the apocryphal tale of King Cnut goes, he commanded the sea: ‘You are subject to me, as the land…

The game of marriage chicken

7 March 2022 4:00 am

China is grappling with the problem of what to do with what they call ‘leftover’ women – unmarried women, often…

The ABC: where activism beats compassion

6 March 2022 11:00 am

As residents of Northern New South Wales, a region known as the Northern Rivers, are still clinging to their rooftops…