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Fatima Payman saga shows the danger of identity politics
With the long-predicted departure of Senator Fatima Payman from the Labor Party, the whole saga is a timely reminder of…
Parties that presided over Covid are losing power
Today it begins – a lifeless shell is heaved onto the cold, silver table, and the political commentators then pour…
Did Big Gov bully Big Tech?
For all the angry noise accusing the United States Supreme Court of giving Trump a win – thus ‘ending democracy’…
Childcare needs more choice, not more bureaucracy
A recent report by the Centre for Policy Development (CPD) outlines a proposal to effectively remake the childcare sector in…
Serves you right, Democrats
Today’s Democrats are too stupid to be trusted with the powers of the Presidency. The dumbbell started ringing with Democrat-adjacent…
National security amid Albo’s hip and cool dereliction of duty
Channelling a new generation of hip and cool appeasers, our Prime Minister seems to get his priorities dangerously wrong. From…
The abolition of marriage: who is to be blamed?
Australia has been allowing same-sex marriage since 2017, when the government of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull adopted legislation allowing people…
Déjà vu in Australian higher education
History repeats itself, often with a sense of irony only those with long memories can fully appreciate. In a move…
Dumb and dumber
So much has been said about Labor’s immediate response to the Dutton plan for nuclear energy in Australia. The three-eyed…
The delusions and dangers of charging EVs in apartment buildings
A recent article in Car Expert claims, ‘almost half of Australian EV owners would go back to petrol [and] diesel’…
Marine industry leading the nuclear transition
‘Hagar, I can’t get to sleep for thinking about her…!’ declared Lucky Eddie to his Commander. ‘I can even concentrate,…
No, Mr Bowen, community batteries are not a substitute for nuclear
At a recent press conference in Bexley North in Sydney’s south, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced the…
The Smart Energy Council makes two basic mistakes
The Energy Minister has claimed the Coalition’s seven proposed nuclear sites will barely make a dint, providing only 3.7 per…
Covid Commission Coalition heats up
An Australian coalition of six senators is pushing to establish an official inquiry into Australia’s pandemic prison rules. The senators…
#FreeSpeech: Toby Young is touring Australia
The Free Speech Union of Australia is delighted to host Toby Young, the director of the Free Speech Union in…
Battery baloney, hydrogen hype, and green fairy tales
How low Australia has fallen… Our once-great BHP now has a ‘Vice President for Sustainability and Climate Change’, the number…
The President came second
The First Lady (of the US) plays an important role because she is seen as an extension of the President,…
The (second) greatest mass delusion in history
The anthropogenic global warming scenario was launched 36 years ago this month, on June 23, 1988, in the US Senate…
Diversity disaster? Report laments stale, pale, male directors
The ABC, in its limitless Woke fashion, decided recently that the time is again ripe to take the old ‘corporate…
‘Hate Speech’ laws and the murder of justice
Anyone keen on hate speech laws, needs to spend a year in Pakistan living under their Islamic blasphemy laws. It’s…
Bureaucratic punishment
Michael* (not his real name) is a typical Aussie kid who grew up in Sydney’s beaches. Confident and cheerful, he…
Fatima Payman: the untouchable senator
When they are first elected and enter their party room for the first time, Labor MPs sign the Pledge. They…
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