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

There’s so much wrong with Anthony Albanese’s ‘Green ANZUS’

15 September 2021 1:20 pm

Rehearsing what he says is Labor’s long commitment to the American alliance, Anthony Albanese has sought to modernise this, saying, “ On…

Britain rediscovers liberal democracy over vaccine passports – while Australia trashes it

15 September 2021 4:00 am

As noted in yesterday’s Morning Double Shot newsletter, in Britain and Australia we have two countries, two contrasting approaches to…

Gladys versus God

14 September 2021 5:32 pm

Churches cannot — and must not — comply with health orders that require them to exclude unvaccinated people from worship…

REVEALED: How woke bureaucrats used the corona crisis to cancel women

14 September 2021 5:21 pm

While two-thirds of this country’s population is currently locked up at home and deprived of its fundamental freedoms, unelected bureaucrats…

It’s not only history. The left has captured literature too

14 September 2021 1:08 pm

Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of…

‘We managed to toilet train cows’

14 September 2021 11:40 am

“We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change,” a…

Covid: the New World Order

14 September 2021 4:00 am

Something dangerous has happened to Australia.  We have allowed the interests of ‘collective health’ to erase individual human rights.  It…

Dead reef? What dead reef?

13 September 2021 5:19 pm

Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…

Jacinda Ardern – an agenda-driven autocrat?

13 September 2021 3:40 pm

It’s hard to keep up with our adroit Prime Minister who apparently doesn’t like answering questions, such as the one about where does…

Lorraine Finlay, conservative governments and appointments

13 September 2021 1:27 pm

I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as…

Bravo, Boris: England vetos vaccine passports

13 September 2021 11:06 am

“I’ve never liked the idea of saying to people, ‘You must show your papers’ … to do what is just…

Yes, we have an inequality problem – between the public and private sectors

13 September 2021 4:00 am

In an interview with the American socialist Jacobin Magazine this month, Greens leader Adam Bandt spoke about a growing inequality crisis. When…

Saving our forests and controlling our climate

12 September 2021 6:49 pm

I’m all for saving forests. Unlike the climate change enthusiasts, I learnt how to do it by working as a…

Doctor Deathwish comes to Queensland

12 September 2021 4:06 pm

“Lying always comes before killing”, as Solzhenitsyn observed of the Stalin regime. Under the Labor administration in Queensland, it comes…

Carping Keneally on road to political oblivion

12 September 2021 3:00 pm

Just months from a possible December federal election, the Labor Party is doing what it does so well – knifing…

Jeff Kennett is right: Daniel Andrews can be defeated

12 September 2021 1:23 pm

Springtime may be brightening up the lives of Victorians, but the stage light is dimming on Premier Dan Andrews.   Something…

Dante Alighieri: a giant of the West and a man for our times

12 September 2021 10:00 am

Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet, politician and philosopher. Dante, or as…

Amen to Abbott

11 September 2021 4:22 pm

The Twitteratti have been in a tizz since Wednesday when a busybody got a shot of Tony Abbott, sans mask,…

Josh Frydenberg defends the indefensible with JobKeeper

11 September 2021 1:54 pm

How do you defend the indefensible? You give a politician a pen and some newspaper column centimetres.  I tend not…

Why has Queensland Labor declared war on Catholic healthcare over euthanasia?

10 September 2021 2:00 pm

What contempt the Queensland Government must have for Christians that they have chosen the middle of a pandemic to pick…

High Court ruling means the end of social media

10 September 2021 12:00 pm

It’s not very often a news item pokes its head above the laughable parody of our national conversation. Get your…

Just the facts: Coronavirus in Australia by the numbers

10 September 2021 4:00 am

Notes:  The data below is generally current as at 7 September 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due…

Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement – Part II

9 September 2021 5:33 pm

The Attorney-General Michaelia Cash announced the appointment of a new Human Rights Commissioner, Lorraine Finlay, this week.  I live in…

Climate warriors, heroes and idiots

9 September 2021 4:01 pm

Former Wallaby great David Pocock was interviewed on ABC Radio National by Fran Kelly last week. He was invited onto…

The EU is in serious decline

9 September 2021 2:20 pm

The European Union shows all the signs of worsening economic, social and political decline, with symptoms ranging from tepid economic growth and…