In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Tricky tragedies: Ukraine and Afghanistan
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’
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you’re a gender diverse, sexually ambiguous, disabled, Indigenous vegan who can draw a bit, now would be a good…
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…
