In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Is Frydenberg’s post-Covid economic optimism justified?
Josh Frydenberg was pleased with last week’s midyear economic review issued by Treasury. He preened himself, opining that the Covid…
Bandt and the choofing Greens are at it again
Everything the Australian Greens do starts well enough, before descending into farce. Caring for the environment ends with farmers having…
A different take on the Jesus story
My favourite Christmas story … stop me if you’ve heard it. According to the late Sydney theologian Dr Barbara Thiering’s…
Diary of an unvaccinated person
I’ll let you in on a secret, I haven’t taken the Covid vaccination. For a lot of people that doesn’t…
Bond, James Bond: they/them/ze/zir
The progressive left’s crusade to normalise pathology shows no sign of slowing down, with calls for the next James Bond…
Update on injunction against WA Police vaccine mandate
NOTE: Just before this piece was due to go to print, a glimmer of hope emerged after a directions hearing…
Australia is importing UK policy on ‘gender affirmation’
The BBC recently pulled out of the Workplace Equality Index and Diversity Champions – a UK LGBTQ+ scheme put on…
What’s behind Shinzo Abe’s Reaganesque straight talk on China?
What’s behind Shinzo Abe’s Reaganesque straight talk on China? In his December 1 video address to the Taipei-based Institute For…
Covid, the constitution and consensus
When Fox News anchor, Chris Wallace, announced that he was leaving Fox News last Sunday, the only question was whether…
China is a gold medallist in Olympic boycotts
Guess which country is a gold medallist for Olympic boycotts? Surely not the country that claimed recently a diplomatic boycott…
The ABC’s vibe needs correcting
Without even having listened to the IPA’s documentary podcast Their ABC, ABC board member Joe Gersh criticised the podcast but…
Normal people have been ‘scared stupid’ by Covid
I host a weekly radio show Lily High on Life with the by-line, ‘Change your attitude, change your life’ –…
It’s been a rough start for freedom in Perrottet’s NSW
One of the first acts of the New South Wales Police Force on ‘Freedom Day’ was to cancel the ‘Freedom…
Gender-critical Tasmanian women are given permission to speak
A council meeting in Hobart has received some press attention for a motion brought by Councillor Jax Fox. The meeting…
Christian Kerr’s funeral
As we advised recently, the editor of Flat White Christian Kerr passed away in his sleep a fortnight ago. Christian’s…
Heading towards dystopia – what happened to New Zealand?
In the clash between authoritarianism and democracy, we know what is winning hands down. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, far-left on…
Look who’s cashed-up and running for blue-ribbon seats
From Woolhahra, Point Piper, and beyond the multi-billionaires are queuing to support an Independent. But who are they really supporting?…
Fiona Patten in the lead for ‘most despised politician of the year’
Victorian MP Fiona Patten has made a last-minute attempt at winning Australia’s Most Despised Politician of the Year Award. The…
Do not go quietly, George Christensen
The gas-lighting of retiring MP George Christensen by senior Coalition figures in Canberra is a disgrace. It is also very,…
The case against the unions
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed trade unions as impotent and inflexible, a lethal combination for any organisation seeking growth and…
The ‘Voices’ network seeks to unseat the Liberals
The ‘Voices for’ network is standing self-declared ‘Independent’ candidates in affluent Liberal Party seats in the coming federal election. It…
Let’s not copy New Zealand’s mistake with ciggies
New Zealand this week banned smoking for the next generation. Those under 14 will never be allowed to legally smoke…
Erasing mothers’ violence towards their children
When the Howard government introduced family law reforms encouraging shared parenting, Australia led the world in supporting children’s rights to…
Sex sells – or does it?
Everyone knows that ‘sex sells’. Forget woke advertising campaigns full of gender-creative pronouns, complex quota-ticking spreadsheets, and the latest ‘the-world-is-melting’…
New Zealand embraces gender ghosts as the national religion
From where I sit from across the ditch it appears ‘the land of the long white cloud’ is encased in…
