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

Transgender school policies are a safeguarding nightmare

12 February 2022 3:00 pm

With the Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination Bill and the recent controversy over Citipointe Christian College in the spotlight, it’s worth taking the…

The winning formula: BLM vs Grid Girls

12 February 2022 1:00 pm

Formula One drivers have finally realised that taking the knee before races is a hollow, meaningless, unproductive piece of pretentious…

The presumption of innocence? Bah! says ScoMo

12 February 2022 11:00 am

The presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings, often expressed in the phrase ‘innocent until proven guilty’, is an ancient tenet…

The Liberal Party’s mission to end liberalism

12 February 2022 7:00 am

Come the next election, I will be voting the Liberal Party last. My reasoning is very simple. If I am…

Why would the West want to invade Russia?

11 February 2022 4:00 pm

A June 2016 Levada poll found that 68 per cent of Russians think NATO troops in the Baltic States and…

The hypocrisy of ‘Environmental, Social, and Governance’

11 February 2022 2:00 pm

After I started my business more than 30 years ago, I joined a group of fellow owners and CEOs who…

Which bread are you…?

11 February 2022 12:00 pm

There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about what type of bread each of us identifies with. According…

‘Fair trial’ derailed by the Prime Minister

11 February 2022 9:00 am

This week’s parliamentary apology to Brittany Higgins was greeted by lawyers everywhere with a gasp of incredulity that our Prime…

The false propaganda of racism

11 February 2022 4:00 am

As a boy growing up in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, I was used to seeing violence and cruelty.…

Never again: a manifesto on freedom

10 February 2022 2:00 pm

I can clearly remember walking around Sydney harbour on Australia Day in 2020. My partner and I meandered through The…

Perrottet fancies a bit of Bega

10 February 2022 12:00 pm

Dominic Perrottet obviously thinks Bega is in play at the by-election on Saturday judging by his presence last week in…

Mob hysteria

10 February 2022 10:26 am

While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have…

Man bites dog

10 February 2022 9:00 am

This is what happens when the self-appointed preachers of tolerance and respect don’t get their way. LGBTQ activists have covered…

Civility? It’s empathy we need

10 February 2022 4:00 am

Following leaked text messages showing the way politicians can talk behind closed doors, Grace Tame’s rudeness towards the Prime Minister,…

The basics (and evils) of Cultural Marxism

9 February 2022 2:00 pm

Readers might be aware of Cultural Marxism, contained within the academic field of Critical Theory as a collection of heavily…

Letter from New York – where empathy is exhausted

9 February 2022 12:00 pm

This week, in one carriage of the New York City subway, there were seven homeless people taking shelter on an…

History on the side of Barnaby Joyce

9 February 2022 9:00 am

The ambush on Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison at his Canberra Press Club address last week was extraordinary. So too…

The greater good - or a grander evil?

9 February 2022 4:00 am

Every time I hear some middling news reporter parrot ‘for the greater good’ in reference to whatever the next absurd…

The Liberals are a lost cause

8 February 2022 2:00 pm

For some time, the Liberal Party has been walking a dangerous path, one lined with terrible policies and dodgy backroom…

Australia desperately needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission

8 February 2022 12:00 pm

Talk about missing the point… All those clamouring for a federal corruption commission to be an election issue have so…

Israel confounds the promise of vaccines as the way out of Covid

8 February 2022 9:00 am

Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it…

Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus

8 February 2022 4:00 am

Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with…

GoFundMe’s spectacular ‘woke’ collapse

7 February 2022 2:32 pm

The CEO of GoFundMe, Tim Cadogan, set his Twitter account to ‘private’ after presiding over one of the biggest outrages…

Labor loves the ‘F’ word, but is too bashful to say it

7 February 2022 2:00 pm

Queensland loves a good rort, doesn’t it? Their integrity commissioner, Dr. Nikola Stepanov, resigned midway through her three-year term last week. Why?…

‘Conspiracy theorists’ – the new extremists

7 February 2022 12:00 pm

The rationale that dominates the minds of the mainstream, which for over two years has dictated the dominant discourse, seems…