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Fair Work Australia won’t protect workers from unfair vaccination rules
None of us should be surprised that the union movement has sunk back into its favourite communist swamp. The abolition…
The Lord of the Dings
Adam. Bandt. Seriously. Tweeted. This. Adam. Bandt. Seriously. Tweeted. This. Adam. Bandt. Seriously. Tweeted. This. Adam. Bandt. Seriously. Tweeted. This.…
Elephants afraid of mice: how Coalition cowards plan to legislate against the Liberal Democrats
Australia’s electoral system has been designed by politicians for politicians, gently tweaked — usually with the support of both the…
EXCLUSIVE: New polling shows strong belief media Covid coverage has been alarmist
Covid-19 is addictive, not just for the political class but for Australia’s mainstream media. At the beginning of the pandemic,…
What’s woke this week?
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics produced some great woke stories. Simone Biles’ withdrawal from gymnastics competition was labelled ‘courageous’ and ‘brave’…
Vaccination certificates: an idea whose time must never come
Chris Richardson of Deloitte Access Economics wrote in the Australian Financial Review on 10 August: ‘Delta is so infectious that the vaccination rates we…
The IPCC buries two millennia of fluctuating temperatures
Probably nobody in the world has read the 3,949 pages of the latest IPCC report. But many people have studied the 41 page politically determined, Summary…
Every industry has its own safety responsibilities, so why the fuss over jabs?
My kids’ grandparents all had small scars on their upper arms from compulsory vaccinations. They were delighted to receive them…
New Zealand’s energy emergency
Regardless of the spin Jacinda Ardern’s government is putting on the fact that parts of our North Island cities have…
What else might our governments lock us down for?
According to our politicians and poohbahs of public health, Australians will all be subject to some form of house arrest…
A tax-and-ban strategy won’t help tackle obesity – as Britain shows
Gyms may be closed thanks to lockdowns, but that hasn’t stopped the Australian government from lecturing its citizens about our…
The Morrison government is in a bind as base gets restless – and that’s before we get to climate
At the outset of the pandemic, there were those hoping it would be the spark for their versions of economic…
The dishonesty of the political class
Good public policy-making requires a wide swathe of opinions being stirred in the cauldron of competing ideas. The jurisdiction in…
Most Covid patients at Israeli hospital fully vaccinated? What does this mean for Australia?
Israel has been held up as the “gold standard” of how to conduct the coronavirus vaccine rollout. It has seen approximately 70% of its…
Funny how climate activists don’t seem to know how the climate works
If you listen to this week’s IPCC’s report launched in Glasgow (and to the hysterical activists burning prams outside Australia’s…
Sliding towards tyranny, one ‘Look at me, I’ve been vaxxed’ Facebook post at a time
I used to think Big Brother represented the failings of a centralised government, but as COVID accelerates our move towards…
Let’s have a global sports boycott of China
According to the latest score sheet, the People’s Republic of China won 38 gold medals at this year’s Olympic Games,…
Mandatory jabs and bans on the unvaccinated? Try getting that past the High Court
In a provocative article published last weekend, Joe Hildebrand argued that “We are fast approaching a point where anyone who…
Why conservatives shouldn’t support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Yesterday, Flat White ran a piece by Senator Andrew Bragg explaining why conservatives should support the proposed Indigenous Voice to…
Are we saving lives or destroying them?
The great Albert Einstein said: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it”. Our…
Grating Greta jumps the shark
She’s back – but not for very long, if this is what she’s been reduced to. Remember back to those…
The hotel quarantine disaster WorkSafe action latest: the rule of law in Victoria is on public trial
There has been a concerning development with the process to prosecute the Victorian Government over the 2020 Hotel Quarantine breaches that…
Awarding Olympic medals must end – it reinforces a binary and elitist worldview
One of the nation’s peak sporting bodies, the Australian Centre for Equity and Excellence in Sport, has issued a warning…
Tough love: how lockdown’s got us painting rocks and why that’s not all bad
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Why women are at risk from the campaign to abolish sex
The latest human rights push is the inalienable right to keep your birth sex private. We all have to pretend that we…
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