In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The real challenge for the real right
Many of us have watched with fascination and horror what has been unfolding in the American capital over the past…
Yes, the energy system is broken – but because of ministers, bureaucrats and regulators rush to renewables
Kerry Schott, head of the Energy Security Board, the most senior of the dozen or so Australian regulatory bodies, is…
Not so useful idiots?
In the battle of ideas, idiots are seldom useful. Look to Vladimir Lenin, who is reported to have coined the term…
Nancy Pelosi shows: gender is for bigots
Author’s Note: my editor refused to remove his (its) comments. Apologies. Stand and applaud, a great injustice has been corrected…
It reeks of blasphemy, but might more MP give us better service?
Australian democracy faces a crisis of representation. People feel alienated from our politics and our institutions. Donkey votes are up, minor parties’ votes…
Tell Chicken Little to go home and stop making policy
In a state with 8 million people in a city of 5 million, 49 locals this week contracted a virus…
Hillsong Church is to blame for absolutely everything
Forget coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party and Climate Change: the greatest threat to Australia is Hillsong Church. If you believe…
How coronavirus controls killed my faith in the Liberal Party
The following is my letter of resignation from the Liberal Party. It has just been presented to the Membership Coordinator…
Eight trends to watch in 2021
Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but…
Revealed: the astounding quality of our state parliamentarians
From The Age: Labor upper house MP Cesar Melhem… said… some… MPs found it difficult to secure employment after… politics……
The new COVID crisis shows Victoria’s public health administration is in deadly decline
With the Victorian-New South Wales border shut again and the holiday plans of tens of thousands thrown into chaos it’s…
We are at war with China
Let’s face it. We’re at war with China. Whether we like this or not ‘war’ is what it is. At this stage,…
Three decades on and John Hewson is still getting it wrong
Australia’s most illiberal former Liberal leader John Hewson wants governments to begin randomly testing people for coronavirus. “Is it too…
Free to air tedium
It is said that you get what you pay for, and as regards free to air television, truer words have…
End the misery and confusion: we need national COVID coordination
At a time when Victorians should be celebrating the end of a horror year, thousands have cancelled their holiday plans…
How good is ScoMo’s ‘new and improved formula’ national anthem?
Ever since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (ridiculous) decision to announce via Tweet the changing of Australia’s national anthem, the usual…
Happy New Year and do what you’re told
While taking a rare trip one day on a suburban bus, I noticed a very small discreet sticker on the window…
Once upon a time we had a plebiscite to change the national anthem – and try telling the Premiers we are ‘one and free’
Australians all awoke today to discover that we are “one and free”. Yes. Just like that. Even despite the best…
2020: Orwell or Huxley?
One need not be a Hebrew prophet of old to be able to discern the times and give more or…
How 2020 became the year of the New Pharisees
One of Australia’s great singer/songwriters, Paul Kelly, has a very insightful song titled, ‘Little Kings’. It’s about how “everywhere the…
Can’t get no satisfaction? Try, for a happier New Year
The older I get, the less inclined I am to make New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps I’ve developed an unconscious superstition…
My New Year’s resolution: no more Mr Science guy
My New Year’s resolution for 2021 is to go full bore whacko religious on climate change. No more Mr Science…
Fifteen reasons why Santa is a Communist
It’s that time of the year again to wish readers a very Merry Christmas — whatever circumstances you find yourself…
Happy Xmas (woke is over)
To mark the end of the year that saw elected politicians of all political stripes impose what retired British top…
Palestinian kids in UN-run schools are being taught to hate and kill
Schools being operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency are teaching Palestinian children as young as 6 to hate,…
