In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
The zero risk approach is driving us up the wall
Road deaths are far too high and need to be reduced at all costs. Despite police action, people still speed…
A public holiday for a cancelled event? You can’t get much more corona-crazy
Those south of the Queensland border may have heard of the Brisbane Exhibition — or the Ekka as it colloquially…
The Drum sounds the ABC’s death knell
Propriety, and the laws of defamation, prevent me from writing about ABC TV’s The Drum that which so richly deserves…
Newspoll: Governments usually win one election more than they deserve. Was 2019 one of them?
Today’s Newspoll is dire for the Prime Minister. The two-party preferred split of 53:47 is bad enough but can be…
Why conservatives should support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
At the 1897 Adelaide Federation Convention, Alfred Deakin implored delegates to see themselves as ‘trustees for posterity, for the unborn…
Their ABC and ‘allegations’, rather than ‘facts’
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it…
We are stamping on our children’s future with our attempts to stamp out Covid
It used to be an intergenerational compact, an unwritten commandment, that we will give to our children better than we…
Police blow the whistle on the weaponisation of domestic violence claims
Interesting skirmish a few weeks ago over a police union submission to the federal inquiry into family law. In their…
Dear (as in expensive) political leaders: you have failed
The fact that people vastly overestimate the number of deaths from Covid as recent polls have shown, is a signal…
