In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Victoria isn’t the only place enduring pandemic public policy madness, remember
I had no intention of writing about Queensland again but, since my last column, there have been events for which…
Chairman Dan 💕 The Project. Guess why?
On Sunday night, Dan Andrews appeared on Channel Ten’s The Project. Why? With the state he’s responsible for in utter…
Vulture vested interests keep circling super
In the wake of recent legislated changes improving choice of super fund, the government must not assume the job of…
Tony Abbott’s virtuous masculinity
The attacks on Tony Abbott both here and in the United Kingdom for being appointed as a trade envoy for…
The Canberra cannons fire at Deadweight Dan
Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt and Josh Frydenberg make an unlikely tag team wrestling squad, but it looks as if they’re…
If that’s how you clean up your messes, Mr Premier, we pity your poor family
Today was supposed to be the day that Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was going to shine a light on how…
Chairman Dan decrees…
Don’t sit down to that Father’s Day lunch yet. Don’t spoil it. Digest these stomach-churning platitudes from Chairman Dan first.…
Keeping the masses in their place never works. Prejudice never stopped my father – and cancel culture will never stop me
I am the daughter of an East End barrow boy, born in Tower Hamlets in 1918 with the odds stacked…
Daniel Andrews is breaking the boundaries
Victoria police arrested a pregnant mother in front of her little children in her Ballarat home. Zoe Buhler was arrested…
We need the courage to reopen
When confronted with the unknown, it’s human to feel afraid. Lockdowns and border closures may calm our fears, but they…
Tony Abbott: skills and experience still count for something – just
Wanted: Envoy to advise Government on trade and to promote opportunities for the United Kingdom in emerging markets post-Brexit. The…
What’s woke this week?
Wokus pocus! The social justice conjurers of critical race theory and inclusiveness were staging some impressive illusions last week. With a wave of their wands looting, rioting and setting…
Elon Musk, Neuralink and the existential risks of human enhancement
Elon Musk’s Neuralink update on 28 August will be remembered by most of the public for clickbait news headlines involving…
Are the ‘quiet Australians’ confused, fearful – or both?
On Monday, a Newspoll published in The Australian put the Coalition Government and the Labor tied on 50-50 support on a two-party…
The real threat to black lives isn’t white men in police uniforms
Recently media, activists and keyboard warriors have cherry-picked examples of controversial police activity to present coppers as enemies of the…
100 years on, it’s well past time to rethink the court case that remade federation
The goings-on of the nation’s highest court rarely attract significant mainstream public attention. Yet the power of seven largely unknown judges to…
V is for Venezuela – and Victoria, too
The example of a pregnant woman in her home in front of her young children being interrogated and arrested by police graphically illustrates how…
Why has only five per cent of the government’s small business support made it through?
Amid all of the public fanfare created by the billions of dollars in “free money” handed out by the Morrison…
Oh Dan, I have sinned against you…
ITEM: The Australian, September 3, 2020 The arrest of a pregnant anti-lockdown protester, which was live-streamed on social media, has…
ANU students want to ban Churchill – but with no traumatic debate, please
Australia’s preeminent university, Australian National University is the latest institution to take part in the importation of cancel culture, with…
Good leaders minimise fear and explain their responses to a crisis. We’ve seen the opposite
Framing the coronavirus response as freedom vs. tyranny is counterproductive, because the government has so successfully stoked fear in Australians.…
Governments have made this recession worse. They can’t now impede recovery
A 7 per cent fall in GDP during the June quarter is pretty much to have been expected. Led by spending falls…
Recession 2020: you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
It’s official. We’re in recession, after two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Matters couldn’t be clearer. As the official release…
Mad at the witches
All is not well in the dark world of Mad F***ing Witches. While they’re attempting to keep up appearances with…
The WHO has let the cat out of the bag: COVID-19 is now more about politics than public health
The World Health Organisation’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last Friday that “we will not – we cannot – go back…
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