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

Stop this pig-headed pandemic management

6 April 2020 4:19 pm

If this latest case of over-the-top moonbattery from Danandrewstan does not alarm you, I am not sure what will: A 17-year-old learner…

EXCLUSIVE: Extinction Rebellion – “stay sane”? Please. Define sane.

6 April 2020 2:30 pm

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder – as must be sanity, if the latest bulletin from…

Stimulus: where’s the money coming from?

6 April 2020 12:30 pm

In a week we have shifted from a globalised liberal economy and free society to a command economy with closed…

Quaranteens: will the ‘Boomer Remover’ instead melt the snowflakes of Generation Z

6 April 2020 10:30 am

Gen Z has come face to face with our first crisis, and it isn’t the climate emergency. Coronavirus is sweeping…

One ego plus one PC-type

6 April 2020 5:00 am

Barrie Cassidy hosted the(ir) ABC’s Insider’s programme for 18 years. An accidentally leaked 2013 document revealed he earned $243,478. Some…

Will we be paying to keep GetUp! going?

5 April 2020 3:11 pm

Here’s a little something that the Prime Minister should be urgently seeking advice on – or backbenchers with any steel…

Coronavirus: a threat to lives. The government response? A threat to fundamental liberties

5 April 2020 5:00 am

One of the few positive aspects of this present crisis is that some politicians are finally revealing their true authoritarian…

Will we survive coronavirus financial fever?

4 April 2020 5:00 pm

It is truly staggering how quickly fortunes can change. At the beginning of this year, the economy was ticking along…

Beijing Bob’s job application?

4 April 2020 3:14 pm

Heaven knows why a respectable family newspaper such as The Australian continues to publish the pronouncements of the thinking man’s…

Globalism is dead, long live the new nation state

4 April 2020 5:00 am

We all know the supposed ancient Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times”. As the first quarter of 2020…

Panic, parochialism, pissantery and pigheadedness: pandemics in Australian history

3 April 2020 5:00 pm

An incurable disease … highly contagious… those struck down by it shunned by neighbours and friends… its cause unknown ……

Dodgy Dan’s short sainthoood

3 April 2020 2:34 pm

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has been getting a lot of brownie points, first for his role in coordinating responses to…

A note under the door to hotel quarantine whingers

3 April 2020 12:00 pm

We are seeing a tale of two types of human right now.  On the one hand, we have “influencers”, social…

Who’s woke this pandemic?

3 April 2020 11:00 am

I have one nagging question in the midst of this pandemic: Who died and made the(ir) ABC’s ‘medical expert’ Dr…

Are you happy now, Greta?

3 April 2020 5:00 am

Apparently, the current coronavirus pandemic is not linked to the exotic eating habits of the Chinese, but instead is due to “the…

Welcome to the new health system autocracy

2 April 2020 7:17 pm

Under the guise of the ‘precautionary principle’, Australia’s health system has overnight transformed from a bureaucracy into an autocracy. This is no surprise…

ScoMo’s gone as crazy as Kev, but we can still save the economy

2 April 2020 3:07 pm

When the Prime Minister and Treasurer appointed Stephen Kennedy as the Treasury Secretary, they opted for a bureaucrat who had…

Shut up there, Cazaly

2 April 2020 1:00 pm

They don’t know what they will do, when they will go back to work or how their families will survive…

The Ruby Princess fiasco: our leaders’ latest great failure not only over coronavirus, but China as a whole

2 April 2020 11:01 am

Our political leaders have significantly failed to protect Australians from the Wuhan virus. On the principle enunciated by President Truman…

ScoMo has built an economic time bomb. It detonates in six months

2 April 2020 5:00 am

Since it became clear to the Morrison government that the coronavirus outbreak could lead to a potential depression for Australia,…

No, you can’t judge a book by its colour

1 April 2020 5:08 pm

One of the tell-tale signs of the onset of Coronavirus Cabin Fever is that you start noticing the home office…

Palaszczuk’s pork for public servants: sleaze supreme, even by Queensland standards

1 April 2020 3:03 pm

My sister is an economist for the Ontario government in Canada. She’s a public servant. Until last year the pay…

Among all this oddness, we’ve been given the gift of time. Let’s not waste it

1 April 2020 12:30 pm

I’m beginning to wonder: when I stagger back out into the sunlight in six months, blinking blearily against the glare, my beard-hair…

History flips as walls rise in the West

1 April 2020 5:00 am

On one frosty Autumn’s night in 1989, thousands of communist evacuees swelled over a fallen Berlin Wall to the embrace…

A story stranger than any coronavirus conspiracy…

31 March 2020 7:30 pm

Never mind a boring terrestrial virus – what would happen to our planet if aliens from another planet ever make…