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

‘Breaking’ news: our constitutional monarchy wins gold!

14 August 2024 2:30 am

Australia’s constitutional monarchy is one of the most modern forms of liberal democracy. And despite all the embarrassment from a…

The future under President Kamala Harris – a dystopia policed by woke puritans

14 August 2024 2:00 am

It’s a nonsensical cliché, propagated for decades by people who don’t understand history, that the next election is always the…

Israel is fighting a war for the survival of the West

13 August 2024 2:00 am

The Americans, the Europeans, Penny Wong, and everyone else is outraged. Again. Those pesky – sorry – genocidal Jews have…

Did the conservatives lose on purpose?

13 August 2024 1:23 am

The right have to rekindle their political soul without losing their minds

The West stands at a crossroads

13 August 2024 1:00 am

July marked the 110th Anniversary of the start of the first world war, although few noticed it. The West is…

Wind energy enters its mid-life crisis

12 August 2024 2:58 pm

When I first heard that China was installing a two-headed wind turbine, I thought the Babylon Bee was having a…

Elon Musk is right, freedom of speech in the UK is under attack

12 August 2024 10:56 am

Elon Musk has captured headlines in the UK this week by taking our Prime Minister to task over his crackdown…

It’s the simple things that kill you or save you

12 August 2024 2:00 am

In 2016, when my car broke down about 40kms across the southern Mali border, I asked my supply guy and…

Calamity

12 August 2024 1:30 am

ASIO has lifted our national terrorism threat level to ‘probable’ meaning a greater than 50 per cent chance of an…

The failure of the Islamic Human Rights Commission at a time of national division

12 August 2024 1:00 am

The heinous crime extinguishing the lives of three young British girls in a dance class in Southport reverberated across the…

My Guinness experience

10 August 2024 7:26 pm

Eat your heart out Chelsea Hotel. Some years ago, Berlusconi’s Guinness TV flew me to stay in an Italian hotel…

Not just the RBA, Chalmers at odds with the ABS

10 August 2024 1:22 am

My guess is that Treasurer Jim Chalmers is wondering if he’s kicked an own goal by pushing through structural changes…

Next time, the French Wokerati should fight their own wars

9 August 2024 12:15 am

The mainstream media is shoving the Paris Olympics down our throats. But like many other Australians, I want nothing to…

The sun is in control of our oceans

8 August 2024 11:44 pm

In recent years, there has been observed an increase in ocean temperature. Those who adhere to the Climate Change version…

The UK is on fire. Australia could be next

8 August 2024 1:49 pm

The United Kingdom is on fire with riots breaking out across the country, and it brings me no joy to…

When Hanlon’s razor fails

8 August 2024 2:30 am

Last month Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointed Jewish lawyer and businesswoman Jillian Segal as Australia’s first antisemitism special envoy. While…

Terror threat on the rise

8 August 2024 2:00 am

Prime Minister Albanese and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess raised the terror threat level from possible to probable. They urged the…

Perrottet’s Covid apology is not good enough

7 August 2024 4:16 pm

Former New South Wales Premier, Dominic Perrottet, came out yesterday and declared that Covid vaccine mandates enforced by his government…

Do women vote for women, and do Cat Ladies vote for Mamalas?

7 August 2024 1:51 pm

The US Democrats have made a high-stakes bet on securing the female vote by choosing Kamala Harris as their candidate.…

Russia’s national disease can be cured by defeat

7 August 2024 1:40 pm

From a psychological perspective, Russia may have collective paranoid schizophrenia and needs to be defeated for catharsis

Breach of trust

7 August 2024 11:40 am

Queensland ministers are on a spendathon with our money

Starmer presides over the collapse of neo-Marxism

7 August 2024 10:30 am

Labour in the United Kingdom are presiding over the potential dissolution of civil peace. Instead of deescalating tensions, Keir Starmer…

The end of race politics

6 August 2024 10:24 pm

Review: Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, Thesis (Penguin Random House), 2024 The topic…

Another climate myth busted

6 August 2024 8:41 pm

What I like to call ‘climate cult’ wind farms expose the myth that wind can replace hydrocarbon fuels for power…

Are Labor voters enjoying the boxing?

6 August 2024 7:34 pm

Dear Australia, If you continue to cast your votes for Labor, and will no doubt persist in doing so in…