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The fading case for vaccine passports
Last week, Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the current surge in NSW infections is due to the Delta variant,…
Illegal tobacco syndicates are a problem Australia and Asia doesn’t need
Recently, the joint Australia-ASEAN Taskforce on Illicit Tobacco seized over 19 million illegal cigarettes bound for our Indo-Pacific region. The…
Campbell Newman: can Can Do do it?
Let’s open with a trivia question: which Royal Military College Duntroon colleague did Campbell Newman act as best man to? The…
One continent, eight nations
The British rugby fans have their Six Nations. Well, we now have eight nations, if you count our beloved territories. …
What’s woke this week?
Welcome to wacky Wokeworld where whistling the theme from Bob the Builder is considered a ‘non-crime hate incident’, where insect…
Protests? Whatever for?
Our political class cannot comprehend why people who have been locked in their homes for the better part of two…
The elite’s death wish and the Wuhan lab leak
Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China, was a committed Marxist who supported the adaptation of such a Western ideology by…
Robot Waleed’s ‘moral burden’ as he dances in The Minefield
ABC Radio National’s The Minefield claims to ‘unpack‘ the moral and ethical issues of our time. Sadly the show fails to unpack…
The People’s Republic of Westralia: where nut jobs rule
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Curtin…
Apologies to journalists, but some of us are just clueless
Imprisoned Saudi writer Raif bin Muhammad Badawi was on my mind this week, as he often is when questions of free speech…
The Great Barrier Reef extortion racket
The Australian Institute of Marine Science has just revealed that Great Barrier Reef coral coverage has recovered to be as good as,…
Is the Kids Helpline helpful – or just a sign of our malaise?
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Curtin…
Bezos’s bell-end: a postscript
When he was back on the ground after his – ahem – epic space flight of all of ten minutes, Amazon founder Jeff…
Covidanity: Australia’s new state religion
A key to understanding our current predicament is the extent to which Covid has come to resemble a religion. Covidanity,…
It’s not woke versus woke if lesbians want to exclude the transgendered
The street I grew up on was the border of a public housing estate. On my side of the street…
The Oldest Culture: Engineering
The fourth in a series of articles examining Dark Emu-style claims. These days we hear a lot about what a…
We have no choice? Really, Mr Premier?
The Premier of Victoria said a few interesting things when he plunged the state into its fifth lockdown. He was…
The amazing return of Captain Australia
Eighty-one years ago, comic book writer Joe Simon created Captain America, an agile and resilient superhero who represented the American…
And the winner is… us
Finally, the 2020 Olympics are finally about to kick off. So why does it already feel so underwhelming? After…
Covid pen-pushers write our future
How many public service jobs and third party government contracts have been created specifically to hold up the Covid bureaucracy? Forget about…
A simple question each for Annastacia Palaszczuk and Scott Morrison on the games
Q: Premier, what public services will be cut or what taxes will be raised to allow Queensland to host the…
An official health warning: suspect everyone
The New South Wales Chief Health Officer told us yesterday that “whilst it is human nature to engage in conversation…
We have become Pavlov’s dogs – or Mark McGowan’s and Dan Andrews’, anyway
Just mention lockdown and a certain type of Australian starts salivating — Victorians and Western Australians. That’s one of the…
Can you spot the Victorian opposition?
There are less than 500 days until the next Victorian state election. With Victorians well into our fifth never-ending lockdown,…
We can’t eradicate coronavirus. Let’s not eradicate our national spirit trying
I feel incredibly lucky to be living in our beautiful country. Thanks to our swift response to Covid-19, we have…
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