In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Maradona should warn us: excusing our sports stars’ bad behaviour has become an Australian pastime
Last week, I received a blunt text message. “Maradona. Should be a lesson to every child.” In other words, a…
Dictator Dan is still mad on muzzles
Daniel Andrews has celebrated zero cases of coronavirus and a month of no community transmissions by mask-shaming long-suffering Victorians. “Good…
Where’s the diversity at the ABC when it’s only white people talking left wing dross?
Former Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane yesterday slammed the ABC for using too many white-skinned Leftists to present its news…
Daniel Andrews queer theory tyranny
While Christian Porter has delayed the introduction of the Religious Freedom Bill until 2021 due to COVID-19, Daniel Andrews is…
The great public policy Razzie awards
For the third year running, independent research undertaken by two philosophically opposed Right and Left think tanks — the Institute of…
Prayer illegal? In Australia?
What tumultuous times they are in which we live? Not so long ago In Australia it was a criminal offence…
Our universities: foundering in the shallows of farce and incoherence
As noted by the British Conservative politician Michael Gove in Celsius 7/7, whereas classical Marxism defines the revolutionary struggle in terms of the workers…
Joe Biden, America’s unenthusiastic allies – and the real ones
Sam Vinograd, an Obama administration national security alumnus – and now, needless to say, a CNN nat sec analyst –…
Daniel Andrews arrogantly bungled coronavirus – and is doing the same to economic recovery
Yesterday’s Victorian budget was on-form for the Andrews’ government: it mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and now it is mishandling the economic recovery from the…
It’s an evil copout claiming domestic violence in Aboriginal communities comes from colonisation
When a black man hits a black woman it’s a white man’s fault, according to Diversity Council Australia. The Council,…
Joel Fitzgibbon: the leader Labor needs, but will never get?
There’s an old gag that says the sixties didn’t come to Australia until the election of Gough Whitlam in December…
Victoria keeps its Triple A rating for reckless budget bastardry
Having morphed its deadly 2020 Covid response ‘strategy’ into a popularity triumph with voters the Andrews Victorian government has delivered…
The great koala capers continue
Multinational green corporations such as World Wildlife Fund are taking millions of dollars from well-meaning and naive people concerned about the welfare of…
Ita Buttrose: Emma Alberici, eat your heart out
In case you managed to miss Ita Buttrose’s stirring speech in defence of her well-remunerated job, sorry, the ABC, here’s…
Clive James, sex and revolution
One year ago, on November 24, 2019, the great man of letters, comedian, and raconteur, Clive James, died. I won’t even pretend to be impartial. Ever since I was fourteen,…
Mourning the non-existent transexual murder epidemic
Imagine a funeral where mourners stand grieving around an empty coffin. Those gathered for the service are inconsolable. That there…
Those small-l liberals and their ABC
In his recent appearance on Insiders, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vehemently declared that: The Guardian is an avowedly, small-l liberal,…
The Sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of some SAS troopers
Central to the Special Air Service badge is a dagger, surmounted by wings. It was inspired by SAS founder Colonel…
Where is Australia’s conservative intellectual movement?
“There are right-wing commentators aplenty on the ‘op-ed’ pages of the newspapers and in journals of opinion, but they are…
Just how voluntary will any coronavirus vaccine be, given the ethical concerns?
Over the last couple of weeks there have been several developments with regard to a potential coronavirus vaccine. On 16…
Don’t our special forces need a fierce warrior culture, General Campbell?
I do not know of anyone currently in the armed forces or anyone who has done a tour of duty in Afghanistan,…
What’s woke this weekend?
Hallelujah brothers, sisters and — of course — the gender non-conforming! Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies…
How coronavirus has made our democracy sick
Panic by our governments has squandered Australia’s good fortune of being so lightly touched by Covid-19 (and natural isolation). Panic…
South Australia’s corona fiasco: there should be a new Marshall in town
It would be fair to say that virtually none of the Premiers have had a good pandemic. Daniel Andrews, short…
Lockdown lunacy and Big Public Health’s jackboot tendencies
Have you ever wondered why some public health efforts seem useless? How about something excessive? Personally, I believe that most…