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

Social media bans and the control of centralised information

13 December 2024 4:10 pm

Much remains unclear following the rushed passage of the legislation banning under 16s from social media. Yet one thing is…

Climate chains – rise of the normies

13 December 2024 10:25 am

Listen up deniers and right-wing nut-jobs! Our critical energy systems have been under attack for a couple of decades but…

Even climate fanatics are having doubts

13 December 2024 9:42 am

Time for another review of the electricity market…? Commonwealth and state ministers have established a new four-person commission, the NEM…

Where are our leaders?

12 December 2024 5:49 pm

As I watch with dismay and some trepidation the shenanigans going on in our national capital, I cannot but ask,…

Science is settled by politicians

12 December 2024 12:54 pm

Real climate science held back fifty years by manic focus on CO2

The manosphere vs the ABC

12 December 2024 1:00 am

The ‘manosphere’, as popularised by US conservative podcasters, has made masculinity cool again – and Donald Trump’s election victory legitimised…

Queensland Parliament sets worrying precedent

11 December 2024 3:28 pm

A most authoritarian gesture

Guillotine orders: a constitutional aberration?

11 December 2024 2:26 pm

It has been widely reported that the Senate, on November 29, ramrodded 32 bills through the Senate without any meaningful…

Terror on the rise

11 December 2024 1:20 pm

Last Friday, a prominent Jewish synagogue in Melbourne’s southeast was set on fire in what is now agreed to be…

The return of politics

11 December 2024 9:28 am

The new centre and the Liberals’ National-Conservative shift

Striking a blow for men – and against media bias

10 December 2024 5:33 pm

Mainstream media often blithely dismisses viewpoints or ideas from what it considers unfashionable or undesirable sources. I experienced another example…

Opening the Overton window

10 December 2024 4:01 pm

Liberal leader Peter Dutton is winning in the polls as he continues to take his cues from the United Australia…

The turning point that shattered the climate change narrative

10 December 2024 3:28 pm

For the climate change zealots and their profiteering masters, October 2024 may go down as one of the most damaging…

Miracles do happen

10 December 2024 11:12 am

Last week we had great news. A brilliant young Chinese PhD student won his appeal against the sexual assault convictions…

We have seen this show before

9 December 2024 9:47 pm

Streaming services have created a new strain of déjà vu, and this is how it works. You start watching a…

Net Zero is communism and it wants to overthrow our Parliament

9 December 2024 2:31 pm

‘F-ck Germany … and f-ck Israel!’ giggled climate mascot Greta Thunberg from behind a lectern draped in a keffiyeh while…

Open letter to Albanese from an 11-year-old

9 December 2024 1:15 pm

Dear Prime Minister Albanese, My name is Leo Fineberg and I am an 11-year-old boy who is a proud Zionist…

The new tribalism: A revolt against progressive intellectuals?

9 December 2024 1:04 pm

National populism is now on the rise everywhere, representing a broad-based popular revolt against the values imposed by progressive intellectuals…

Confronting terror

8 December 2024 6:34 pm

In the aftermath of the horrific attack on Melbourne’s Adass Israel Synagogue, I find myself unable to stay silent. The…

Trump: the great global reset

8 December 2024 2:14 pm

The re-election of Donald Trump resets the world… His former presidency was almost whimsical. Trump was a rank outsider with…

Bureaucracy and Safetyism: the ugly sisters

8 December 2024 8:00 am

One of the more annoying phrases that has slithered its way into public discussion is: ‘If it saves one life,…

Positano, Amalfi coast, Italy

8 December 2024 7:13 am

The little motor boat with the red fish sign flying on what would have been a mast had it been…

Ocean of peace in a world of war

8 December 2024 7:04 am

As a consequence of my Scottish Jewish heritage, I only read a newspaper if it is free. Since Covid, newspapers…

What’s happening in Korea?

7 December 2024 9:45 am

I love the Republic of Korea. It is a country I can visit over and over without ever tiring of…

The Department of Inefficiency and Public Waste

5 December 2024 10:38 am

How spending on Renewable energy is costing us a fortune