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

New Zealand High Court overturns police and defence forces vaccine mandate

28 February 2022 4:00 am

A New Zealand High Court challenge questioning the legality of Covid vaccination mandates for Police and Defence Force employees has…

Equal before the law

27 February 2022 2:00 pm

While it came as a surprise to me that a Canberra resident could lose her patience in front of the…

Scott Morrison, are you serious about protecting women’s sport?

27 February 2022 11:00 am

‘It’s male and female bodies that jostle in sporting competition, not gender avatars.’ – The Australian. With the biological male,…

Will ‘woke’ survive the war?

27 February 2022 7:00 am

Will the West’s obsession with Woke survive war in Europe? Or will Putin’s missiles finally explode the Never-Never Land of…

Heartless Woolworths to start sacking unvaccinated staff

26 February 2022 3:16 pm

While many countries across the world have ditched Covid health orders entirely – declaring the pandemic over and the Omicron…

Free things are not a ‘nappy’ thought, councillor

26 February 2022 1:47 pm

Buoyed by thoughts that Labor might actually be getting its act together, one of Sydney’s Inner West councils has come…

The working class of the world unite – against the Left

26 February 2022 11:00 am

‘Working men of all countries, unite!’ exclaimed the last sentence of Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. Looking around the world,…

Terry the truth teller

26 February 2022 7:00 am

Last week the LNP member for Longman in Queensland, Terry Young, did something few politicians do. He told the truth.…

1939 Revisited

25 February 2022 4:39 pm

September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, quickly overrunning Polish border defences, and advancing on Warsaw. What if, in the lead-up…

It took a while, but green academics finally woke up!

25 February 2022 2:00 pm

It has suddenly become politically correct to acknowledge that disruption of Aboriginal burning caused megafires in Australia before any hint…

Keeping Australia ‘on brand’

25 February 2022 12:00 pm

‘After four years of research and almost $10 million, a new “nation brand” and tagline have been unveiled – comprising…

Life is for living - not hiding

25 February 2022 9:00 am

A woman came to the emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain. She was in her mid-fifties and was not well.…

We should be mad as hell at Putin and Western leaders

25 February 2022 4:00 am

The trouble with Odysseus, the Ancient Greek mythological hero and King of Ithaca, was that his deceptions, while good in…

Want to ‘think bigger’? Switch off the ABC

24 February 2022 2:00 pm

Earlier this month, ABC Managing Director David Anderson delivered the startling news to a Senate Committee that, ‘Now, more than…

Australia’s ‘children of the Covid state’

24 February 2022 12:00 pm

The Victorian Department of Education and Training has now become the co-parent of our children. In a most disturbing government…

The stampede of green lemmings

24 February 2022 9:00 am

No country on Earth relies entirely on wind and solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. They…

Throwing kids in prison doesn’t work

24 February 2022 4:00 am

In 1993 the British Home Secretary, Michael Howard, famously said ‘prison works’. He was right, but only in the most…

Dark times for freedom of speech

23 February 2022 5:38 pm

You could barely imagine a more ludicrous scenario. A female CEO sacked without process. From Girl Guides. For questioning why…

Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers

23 February 2022 2:00 pm

If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of…

Covid and government: health as a numbers game

23 February 2022 12:00 pm

Numbers weren’t meant to be complicated. We use them daily, yet when it comes to Covid and our health they…

University and TAFE vaccine ‘policy’ mandates are misinformed

23 February 2022 9:00 am

As an Australian, I have been fed a steady diet of anti-discrimination doctrine for many years. It’s a common thread…

It may sound crazy, but Russia should be admitted to Nato

23 February 2022 4:00 am

The Cold War is over. It’s time the West started acting like it. When the hot war with Germany ended…

The West has a bad case of ‘tall poppy syndrome’

22 February 2022 4:05 pm

I notice that the infantile ‘cutting down the tall poppy syndrome’ appears to be flourishing again. A favourite target of…

Breadgate: let them eat wholegrain

22 February 2022 2:30 pm

In recent weeks it’s been tempting to look for similarities between the re-election prospects of Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison.…

Weaponising womanhood to destroy equality

22 February 2022 12:00 pm

Lately, I have been considering why, at a time when women have unprecedented access to opportunities and are participating in…