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Identity politics is a threat to societies
Identity politics has been weaponised to sow division across the Western world. Global outrage over the killing of George Floyd…
Death, Covid and freedom
Let’s talk about death — because until we do talk about death we will never be free of the fear…
EXCLUSIVE: Fair Work Ombudsman leaves voluntary workers in the cold over jabs
At a time when Australians are facing the prospect of losing work and opportunities based on their vaccination status, you…
Feminists throw children under the bus
There’s no end to the dreadful chicanery being used to prop up the feminist narrative of virtuous women and villainous…
All cows are green
Growing trees need three essentials – radiant energy from the sun, CO2 and rain from the atmosphere, and nutrients and…
Vaccine passport restrictions are constitutionally invalid. Here’s why
Australian governments are now starting to impose vaccination orders as the way out of lockdowns. They have decided that people…
Kiwis want elimination, and nothing but elimination
Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta…
What’s woke this week?
The more I research stories from Wokeworld the more I conclude that they’ve just got to be pulling our collective…
In Gladystopia men can now be Woman of the Year
Based on biology and genetic makeup a woman is a woman and a man is a man. No longer, according…
Lockdowns: an alibi for government to shun scrutiny of neglect of public health preparedness
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1…
Big Public Health flunks Tobacco Control 101 – yet again
Not so long ago, the best way for a non-law abiding Australian to make a lot of money was to…
The bribing of the New Zealand media?
“Trustworthy, insightful, important” — one thing we can say for our mainstream media is that they must think we are…
Is political correctness responsible for our radical reactions to COVID-19?
One of the great ironies of the Covid-19 pandemic is how consistent Western governments have been at providing inconsistent health…
President Biden’s short road back
On August 14, 2020, I woke up to a barrage of WhatsApp messages. Group conversations I’m in were buzzing. The…
Unfair contracts bill a boon for small business
With all the focus on Covid, it’s good to see that major reform efforts are still underway. Last week the…
From vaccine passports to vaccine apartheid
According to a YouGov poll published in yesterday’s Australian, two-thirds of Australians agree that people who are not vaccinated should be denied…
Why a move to home quarantine is long overdue
For those stuck in their umpteenth lockdown – despair not! It seems that after 18 months of working from home, someone…
There’s polling – and there’s polling
Whenever you read a piece on polling by honest commentators like our own Charles Pier, you’ll find a line in…
Lockdown with Aristotle – and a teenager
Who would’ve thought I’d be seeking the advice of a 2,400-year-old guy during a New Zealand lockdown. Maybe you’re thinking…
Ben Eltham vs Craig Kelly: it’s never ok to dox
Yesterday on Twitter, Guardian Australian Arts writer Ben Eltham, possibly bored from writing about culture in a country that doesn’t…
ANZUS, Afghanistan – and where’s Billy Hughes or John Monash when you need them?
The last Australians to stand up to bullying by the United States were World War I General John Monash and…
Brad Hazzard’s schoolmaster schtick is making lockdown more laborious
It makes perfect sense that the New South Wales Health Minister would describe unvaccinated people as “self-entitled and indulgent”. He…
Living in a left-wing psychodrama
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we have managed to survive four years of…
Profiles in Courage: Malcolm Turnbull
From today’s lockdown emergency toilet paper source, The SMAge: Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says American-led wars in the Middle…
Thirty per cent of Coalition voters question if ScoMo deserves another win
The fortnightly Essential Poll is out today, eclipsed (as it all too often is) by the Monday Newspoll, despite showing…
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