In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
If the Morrison government cares about jobs, it can’t cave to union scaremongering
The naked cynicism of the union movement has been laid bare in its attack on the Morrison government’s very modest…
So now we can’t even talk transgender issues?
Question: How many trans activists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: The same number that it takes to…
Joe Biden: gone in 60 weeks?
Joe Biden is not meant to govern. If he manages, and whatever he manages, that’s all well and good, and…
How a conservative Supreme Court nobly upheld conservatism
It appears the United States Supreme Court has snuffed out Donald Trump’s last chance to save his Presidency. This is…
Who is compulsory super benefitting: ordinary Australians or the top end of town?
Mainstream Australians are being failed by the political class as the gap between two Australias continues to widen. This failure is…
You too can wallow in Waleed’s wisdom, thanks to their ABC
Waleed and Scott are two of ABC radio’s intellectuals. Doubtless, they’d correct me to say they are ‘the’ two intellectuals at…
How Australia failed the Covid-19 test
As the wintery Northern Hemisphere suffers through a surge in coronavirus cases, Australians feel the relief of low numbers and…
Daniel Andrews gender antics are a threat, not enhancement, to the fundamentals of our free, open, tolerant society
I grew up in Sri Lanka during a time of civil war. Anyone who criticised the Sinhalese-dominated government disappeared. And…
The MSM finally waves the right red flag
Beyond the shameless partisanship and lack of trustworthy professionalism lies a deeply disturbing truth. The mainstream US media — and I include…
Don’t put a pox on vaccination opponents
Letitia Wright is a talented, award-winning Guyanese actress who has broken the glass ceiling in superhero cinema and Hollywood. There’s…
Eton mess
The Duke of Wellington, one of England’s most celebrated and honoured military figures responsible for defeating Napoleon at the Battle…
Sorry ScoMo, but this is tepid tinkering with IR laws, not real reform
When the Prime Minister announced his five-point industrial relations package in May a senior adviser told me “This is not…
Conservatism in Australia isn’t AWOL, but instead flourishing quietly
In a recent Flat White item, Where is Australia’s conservative intellectual movement?, Jonathan Cole and Simon Kennedy argued that Australia, in contrast to both…
Dear Elizabeth Farrelly, from what I know about both Jesus and the Diocese of Sydney, they aren’t really all that into control
Dear Dr Farrelly, Thank you for your opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald from last Saturday. You mention important issues…
If lefties want to talk capitalism in the 21st century, can they at least get an honest, fresh critique?
First there was the book, now there is the “documentary” film version of French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capitalism in the…
We are shackling ourselves to the safe and mediocre with lazy talk of ‘the pub test’
“Not a good look.” “Bad optics.” “Doesn’t pass the pub test.” Such are the statements by which many controversial or complex ideas…
Crime before coal?
The chair of one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, Mary Sum of the Plate Group, has announced that its…
Dear feminists: bore off with your language policing
We all know that the media has been hijacked by the left. As 2020 draws to a close, I’ll happily…
#WeGoBrokeWithDan
Guess which state or territory has the worst credit rating? Before answering, let me explain what a credit rating is.…
Why the war on ‘the gig economy’ when in reality ‘permanency’ is insecurity?
The demand by Australian unions to turn, it seems, all jobs into ‘permanent’ has been mugged in the blink of…
Sun Tzu and the Art of Trade
Around 2,500 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu wrote his masterpiece, the Art of War. This treatise is…
China strife? Blame Canberra’s acronym alphabet soup
A World War I slogan in the Kaiser’s Germany proclaimed ‘When the bayonet goes in, it should hit steel, not…
Tim Smith’s gender confusion
Policians are finding it hard to think straight when it comes to gay conversion laws. Take Victorian Liberal MP Tim…
The Victorian Liberals silent anniversary
Ten years ago Ted Baillieu broke the Liberal’s post-Kennett electoral drought by leading his party back into power in Victoria. …
The crushing lack of curiosity of the MSM
The legacy news media appears determined to nail down its own coffin-lid, as its former viewers and readers are forced to seek…
