In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The political crevice on patriotism
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
Don’t look to experts for predictions. ‘Experts’ are just as surprised by everyone else at what actually transpires each day…
‘Eat ze bug!!!’
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
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
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’
‘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
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?
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
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?
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
There is a transition underway in our electricity sector. Fundamentally, the people financing, regulating, designing, and operating these systems, are…
Should Morrison propose compulsory military service to win the election?
Long-serving Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has identified national security as the channel in which Scott Morrison should swim to secure…
From the ground in Ukraine: aid and terror
It is a strange thing to travel toward a war zone. As one drives in the direction of Ukraine, all…
Trust us! We’re from the ABC…
ABC management and their high-paid editorial gurus would like taxpayers to believe the national broadcaster is the ‘most trusted’ source…
Edward VIII and the reserve powers
When Sir John Kerr dismissed the Whitlam government, only welded-on Labor Party supporters and a handful of Marxist university students…
An alternative South Australian perspective
The Flat White article, A South Australian perspective, will win plenty of admirers in Sydney and Melbourne. It is the people…
Cashed-up and morally broke
The Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, and in particular – the Treasurer – have a problem; Australians have stopped…
Could the ‘Cook Islands Option’ save our Pacific family?
In light of the possibility of a Chinese military base soon being installed in the Solomon Islands, it may be…
Same garbage – different flies
The Australian Budget was a profound disappointment. Not one useless law was repealed, not one tax was abolished, and not…
Ukraine must win to deter future conflict
There are signs Putin may be prepared to limit his ambitions and settle for a portion of East Ukraine. President…
Last minute legal manoeuvres: WA delay trial of Falconer case
At an urgent hearing late on March 28, the evening before Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the WA Police…
Frydenberg’s Budget is a spendathon, but is it any good?
The government’s much-anticipated 2022-23 Budget contains the usual set of massive spending programs characteristic of an election year. Many of…
What is a woman? James asks ‘every politician in the Western world’
At the exact moment totalitarian regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are threatening global peace and stability, the…
Wokeism: the next big religion
One of the more intriguing aspects of neo-Marxist inspired wokeness, notwithstanding its avowed secular nature and hostility to Christianity, is…
Can the ABC be accused of racism?
I think it’s a legitimate question. With monotonous regularity, we get fact-free, ideological rants masquerading as news on their various…
