In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Trump will change the (energy) world
The film VICE traces the rise of Dick Cheney to the position of US Vice President under the administration of…
Hate speech or censorship? Queensland to give more power to activists
What began as a worthy goal to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace has been hijacked by activists seeking to…
Peter Dutton must take a stand against the eSafety Commission
A new video of a talk by eSafety csar Julie Inman Grant is circulating on social media, revealing what many…
Presidential puppets: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are finished
‘Inevitability’ – it should be the word for the week. It was inevitable that a tech crash would cripple our…
Decolonisation destroys knowledge
In 1945, British author George Orwell said, ‘One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no…
Victoria’s government is rotting away
Putrefaction anywhere is generally unwelcome, but when it occurs in government it’s particularly nauseating. We not only have to bear…
A bone to pick with Biden
Permit me a timely if controversial ‘dog with a bone’ essay, in which I play the dog. Here’s the bone:…
The Trump attack and the death of consensus
Assassination attempts are the boiling point at which politics explodes. They are the final straw, the irascible tension when consensus…
Have we finished creating gods?
Since the earliest times, mankind has been creating gods to deal with unexplained phenomena. To the ancient Egyptians, the mere…
The cult of the Greens: when friendship collides with ideology
I was recently cancelled by a long-term friend for having the temerity to support the State of Israel. The friend,…
Longlegs shows us what the future of horror could be
Unless you count plastic, comically oversized bodily features, and screaming children, there’s not much connecting the Barbie movie with Osgood…
Stochastic terrorism: America’s Deep State atmosphere of violence and incompetence
The attempted murder of President Donald Trump was as shocking as it was inevitable. Things in the United States had…
Refugees and rejectees: our border is wide open
Recent reports show a big uptick in asylum seekers, with some 2,300 would-be refugees mostly entering under cover of a…
Labor’s love affair with the CFMEU turns sour
Jacinta Allan has run hard with the Labor pack in Victoria. But now, singled out by excellent journalism, exposed, and…
Trump and Vance will pull the socialist wool from our eyes
For several years the focus of leftist academics, and even some Western security agencies, has been on right-wing extremism. Many…
Hydrogen Gas: another Climate Cult myth busted
The laws of physics cannot be overcome by feelings, rhetoric, and legislation
Of course there is violence
The attempted and actual murder of anyone is horrific. What I find perplexing is the tone of disbelief that accompanies…
Controversy over NSW Anzac Day trading hours
You don’t make people more respectful by taking their rights away
Trump attempted assassination: not a lone gunman
Let’s be clear about one thing … the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was not the work of a lone…
Yet another government plan to destroy the economy
The Commonwealth Treasury is developing a ‘taxonomy to support the flow of capital into sustainable opportunities and the achievement of…
Democracy under fire: Donald Trump shot at rally
We are watching breaking news unfold after the former President of the United States – and current Republican Presidential nominee…