In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Using political logic, quarantines, border closures and lockdowns may never end
The recent knee-jerk lockdown has sparked more discussion about the ‘value’ of a human life. Yes, it may sound callous to put a price on life; yet we…
If business is paying back JobKeeper windfalls, what about the bureaucrats and their bonuses?
JobKeeper. JobSeeker. Job destroyer. Well, the mob has spoken. Those businesses who legally and correctly accessed the Job keeper scheme,…
Why we must fix the feral Tax Office
When underhand, commercial bullying happens in the private sector, there is righteous community uproar. Regulators investigate. Even Royal Commissions can…
Wokespeak: a pocket guide
With the ascendency of Joe Biden and the rise of Leftism around the Western world, it is vital that every…
Introducing a wonderful new news service, Google Boring
While the federal government makes threatening noises at Google and Facebook, egged on by legacy media outlets in what will…
Mark McGowan versus the world
It’s been an eventful week in Western Australia. When I say ‘eventful, I don’t mean ‘fun’ eventful – I mean ‘what…
Yassmin plays dress-ups
When she’s not busy disrespecting our servicemen and women, flouncing around her grand residency in Paris courtesy of the Australia Council, or recounting her generous grant dollars, Yassmin Abdel-Magied (YAM) is…
A brief history of absolute nonsense
Robert W Welch Jr was, shall we say, an interesting bloke. You might think that a chap who made a…
If a picture says a thousand words…
This weekend shot says it all in just two: Albo’s rooted. We have never seen the leader of a major…
Forget Super Bowl Sunday, it’s hyperbole month in Washington
“Like Lincoln, Biden comes to power at a time when a country is torn between conflicting visions of reality and…
Who remembers what happened last month?
Precisely one month ago today a truly extraordinary, appalling event occurred. Astonishingly, it seems few people can instantly bring to…
In defence of offence
It might be time to say something in defence of offence. In recent weeks the views of Craig Kelly, Israel Folau and…
The virus made us do it
Let’s be honest. Mr Morrison and the Coalition right now are offering us all the sort of interventionist, huge spending,…
Why does Facebook ban conservatives, but give the Mad F–king Witches red carpet treatment?
If your politics are right of centre, you are constantly criticised for pushing “conspiracy theories”. If you try to assert…
Our universities don’t need more money, but instead a focus on the fundamentals
Covid-19 has forced Australian universities to face a harsh reality: the international students who pad their bank accounts aren’t coming…
No, a great koala national park won’t help koalas
The only accurate information in Newcastle University’s newly touted “independent assessment” of koala conservation is the disclaimer: “no responsibility or liability for any information,…
What’s woke this week?
Animal crackers in my soup, racists and speciesists loop the loop, Gosh, oh gee, don’t I have fun, swallowing nonsense the woke…
Google and Facebook should abandon Australian news
Twenty-two years ago this year I first published On Line Opinion. We beat Crikey into cyberspace by a month or…
St George Illawarra tried to boost their premiership hopes recruiting Unapproved Opinions? Shocking!
I can’t wait for the NRL season to begin so I can watch my favourite opinions run out on the…
The Taiwan tango: a delicate dance for Australia
It is done. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr has been inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States and has his feet firmly…
It’s the right of Craig Kelly’s electorate to choose their MP, not the media
Tanya Plibersek underlined her leadership credential by buttonholing backbencher Craig Kelly in the Press Gallery corridors today, making sure journalists…
Move over, Dictator Dan: Marshal Mark is the new laughable Lord of the Lockdown
In his famous political discourse, The Republic, the great philosopher Plato deemed tyranny the “fourth and worst disorder of a state.”…
Please don’t eat me!
This just in. Scientists have taught spinach how to send emails. Idiots at MIT, who never watched enough sci-fi horror…
Vic Libs in a right muddle over Daniel Andrews’s conversion bill
It seems the Victorian Liberal-National Opposition is taking strategic advice from the same people who are advising embattled Collingwood Football…
Sprung! Meet our very own celebrity climate hypocrite
A fortnight ago it was Matt Damon. Now say hello to our very own celebrity climate hypocrite, Chris Hemsworth. Egregious…
