In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Who needs the Australia Card when you can do a Xi Jinping?
My. How soon people forget. In 1985, at the national tax summit, the Labor Government proposed the Australia Card: The…
Goldblunder
On Friday last, November 6, the Australian Taxation Office had a serious legal bomb blow up in its face. It’s…
America, remember the Australian ballot? Here are more electoral wonders from Down Under to try
What a mess. You know what I mean, so I’m not going to list all the problems and alleged irregularities…
Why it’s fine to talk about ‘Dictator Dan’
For those who count themselves, as I do, among the #DictatorDan crowd, whether full-throated or privately enthusiastic, the decision in…
The Biden win: a grave mistake?
Data from the official Michigan government voter index indicates that a man who died in 1984 voted in the United States presidential…
Gee, Leigh. Donald Trump is Robert Mugabe?
I’m old enough to remember when journalists gave us the news and we added our own prejudice. These days journalists…
Anthony Albanese’s conduct confirms he’s a joke, not a leader
Australia and the United States share a history marked by many similarities and some stark divides. Over more than a century, however, our…
Malcolm and Kevin, don’t you have homes to go to? Several homes?
At a time of record levels of government spending and intrusion, it is perhaps timely to consider the words of…
Honk – sorry – bonk if #YouStandWithDan
Logic, Danandrewstan-style. A quick glance at the updated coronavirus “roadmap” for reopening released by the Chairman today tells that even…
Coronavirus is fading, but not Daniel Andrews power lust
Declarations of Joe Biden’s victory overshadowed yet another press conference by Daniel Andrews — not that the Victorian Premier will…
Departures all round?
Shocking Chinese whispers came out yesterday that Vladimir Putin – supreme leader of Russia’s ‘totally not a dictatorship’ dictatorship –…
Anthony Albanese warns the Tsar
Some people have something to say and other people just have to say something. Anthony Albanese is firmly in the…
Aussie winds, republican kite-flying
Today, November 6, marks the twenty-first anniversary of the 1999 republic referendum. Two decades on, republican lobbyists are on the…
Why President Sleepy Joe will keep Australia up at night
It’s not yet certain, but it is looking likely that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United…
Kevin Rudd’s media royal commission call attacks a keystone of democracy
Just over 500,000 people had signed a petition launched by Kevin Rudd calling for a royal commission into media ownership…
Watch out for Adam Bandt’s new bold big thinking
ITEM: Greens leader Adam Bandt has urged one of Australia’s largest trading partners to use its economic leverage to renegotiate…
They’re different in Queensland
As the child of migrant parents, growing up in Brisbane, I learned fast that Mexicans were not, as I had…
Time to tackle Tax Office tyranny
If there’s a connection between the Australian Taxation Office and COVID-19, it can be described in one word:‘dictatorship. For freedom…
Daniel Andrews is getting away with it
Last week I warned how Daniel Andrews can come out on top of the coronavirus crisis he inflicted on Victorians…
Leftist meltdowns on broomsticks
It’s a very troubling state of affairs when an angry pack of left-wing activists are campaigning to see hard-working Aussies…
Queensland poll post mortems are missing the bigger picture
The ALP in Queensland has just won its third election in a row under Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, stunning almost all…
Contracting out High Court appointments to Ancestry.com
When I was young I played a lot of competitive team sports. One of them was baseball on teams coached…
Bordering on the absurd
November 3 is shaping up as a big day in the 2020 calendar: the US elections; the Melbourne Cup; and…
Will dislike of Trump vaudeville push the President out?
Tens of millions of American youngsters are this week facing the ballot box for the first time and their choice…
Education in reverse
Just when you thought radical cultural-left ideology and political correctness could get no worse along comes its most recent manifestation…
