In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Is Australia racist?
Yes, I am writing another article making the claim that Australia is not a racist country. While some might think I have an obsession with the topic, I…
The SpecOz: afflicting the comfortable, comforting the afflicted. Or something similar
I appear to have hurt the feelings of a very powerful union. About three weeks ago, I wrote a piece…
Now more than ever small business needs to be paid on time
My heart was gladdened recently by the spectacular collapse of Greensill Capital, once a darling of the financial and (some) political elites in Australia and Britain. I…
The invisible man
Here’s a screenshot of the Flat White email inbox from earlier this morning. Might the PM’s minders have finally realised…
Why should we rely on mRNA vaccines?
Last month the federal government announced that the AstraZeneca vaccine would be phased out, with it being available only ‘on…
How to cope with Covid? Let’s try to be more Swiss
Singapore and Switzerland seem to be the greatest realists in the world today. They’re getting on with living – not…
Hydrogen hype and hurdles
Green Hydrogen is the latest “energy” fad from the global warming warriors. It is mainly hot air. Hydrogen will never…
Dominic Perrottet stakes his leadership claim
Cabinet solidarity stops him from saying so publicly, but owlish-looking New South Wales Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has set his stall…
Western civilisation. Now an optional extra
Under the current proposed Humanities and Social Sciences national curriculum review produced by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority,…
Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement?
Another week, another viral video in the gender wars. This week we have a Black American woman in a Californian spa, horrified at the sight…
Covidphobia: a fear for our age
If you were asked, “What is your phobia?”, how would you answer? Traditionally, people have spoken of a fear of…
Hell no, she can’t go
Annastacia Palaszczuk should absolutely be denied an exemption to leave Australia. Queenslanders are just picking up the pieces after another foolish lockdown, families separated…
The Laura Tingle-Julia Banks ‘interview’ further undermines the ABC
On Monday night I saw another nail in the coffin of quality journalism on the ABC. It was what could…
The problem with Covid sticks and carrots? Citizens aren’t horses
It is one thing to protest your innocence to a crime that you did not commit, but quite another to…
The Lord of the Woke
James Ronald Ruel Tolkien was an English academic with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon languages and legends and philology. He…
Political cowardice has a price
The cowardice of our political overlords has a price, and usually that price is not paid by these decision-makers but…
Julia, you should have gone to the police, not the ABC
Another day, another anti-Morrison whinger decides to jump aboard the bandwagon to sit alongside miserable ghost Malcolm Turnbull and his…
Back to ‘Big Australia’? Not so fast
If there were a hint of a silver lining in the Covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, it may be…
Truth on social media? Geoffrey Robertson is keen
Truth on social media? It’s a wonderful idea, one espoused by high profile human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on Sky…
Banks’ blunder
One-term MP Julia Banks has written a book based on what she broadly terms the horrors of working in Parliament…
A Reader’s Digest manifesto for our new woke military?
ITEM: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Saturday, July 3 2021: The Australian Defence Force has turned to some of the world’s…
NAIDOC Woke
It’s NAIDOC Week. Aboriginal elites, corporate virtue-signallers and politicians, cheered on by the media but especially the ABC and SBS, will…
A friendly reminder: Anthony Albanese is completely bloody useless
After last Monday night’s AstraZeneca slip of the tongue announcement, Scott Morrison simply vanished for three days until National Cabinet…
REVEALED: National Cabinet’s plans for vaccine segregation
Australia has become the laughing-stock of the world. While other nations open up, winding back restrictions, allowing their citizens to…
God is non-binary. Apparently…
You will be interested to know that the Reverend Canon Sarah Jones, the Church of England’s first ever ‘transwoman’ priest, has made…