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Budget 2020: too much spending, too little reform
The Budget is too focused on the short-term, too heavy on spending and too light on permanent structural reform, Centre…
If Labor ever wants to be trusted with the economy, then Labor MPs should learn how tax rates work
The federal budget’s failure to fund adult remedial math will surely hurt the future prospects of Labor MP Joanne Ryan.…
The(ir) ABC’s gimmicky gotcha budget broadcast
In her post-budget interview with Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, ABC 7.30 anchor, Leigh Sales, seriously embarrassed herself and her viewers. Sales…
The Budget’s new normal remains rooted in the real world
Whatever else one can say about tonight’s federal Budget, at least Josh Frydenberg has held the line firm against the…
Capslock campaigning
Last night, President Donald Trump ran a little experiment on us. It came in the form of rapid-fire CAPSLOCK tweets,…
Lidia Thorpe: trying to change the system from within?
Imagine loathing a country so much that you take a seat in its parliament. Step forward Lidia Thorpe, Richard Di…
Chairman Dan flunks corona class. Again
You’ll recall our little reality check from a fortnight ago after Newspoll found 62 per cent of Victorian voters believe…
We all know habeas corpus goes, but did we tell you about the ethnic angles of Daniel Andrews’ Omnibus Bill?
When future generations ask when did Australians gave up on democracy and freedom, the answer will be 18 September 2020;…
Our ruling Kakistocracy
Studies have shown that cognitive diversity can improve the effectiveness of thinking and quality of decision making in groups. This is in part…
No doubt the ABC will blame the lack of coverage on funding cuts
Big, big, big. It would be hard to get a more lurid tale than The Times article, republished in The…
Border bans: premiers put the constitution behind them
Hi folks, welcome to our neck of the woods (mind the charred koalas). The dunny is down the back there…
Did Chairman Dan just blink?
Daniel Andrews has always been firm: the average new daily coronavirus case count — Victoria-wide — needs to drop below…
Sco Mo, Josh: this is what we need to hear tomorrow
Many Australians rightly look back on the Hawke-Keating-Howard-Costello era of the 1980s and 1990s as Australia’s golden era of reform. From the…
REVEALED: How the journalists’ union put the Cult of Dan ahead of journalists and journalism
Even before Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced his unprecedented nine-hour curfew, one hour a day limit for exercise and prohibition…
The ABC has just moved further from the mainstream
Perhaps the staff at the ABC voted themselves a pay rise so they could donate the extra money to the…
The number one concern of Victoria’s rulers? Identity politics, it appears – not human life
While you were distracted by the atrocious horror show that is reality in Victoria, Dan Andrews has successfully created a…
Victoria’s unemployment double jeopardy
More than eight million Australians collectively clenched their sphincters in anxious unison last week, as the plan to gradually scale…
WATCH: Ian Hanke discusses Daniel Andrews unprecedented indefinite detention laws
The fight continues. Ian Hanke discusses with Peta Credlin in Sky News Australia why Chairman Dan’s totalitarian COVID-19 Omnibus Bill…
What’s woke this week?
The woke’s erroneous moral certitude that brooks no dissent and fanatical adherence to the cause sees them increasingly resemble Islamist terrorists hell-bent on purging the…
Nobody hates like leftists
President Trump has contracted coronavirus and, in response, the world hs held a competition to determine who was the most…
Wanted: a vaccine against irrational COVID-19 thinking
The announcement the Federal Government is investing in the development of three new COVID-19 vaccines is welcome news for those…
Budget 2020: stand by for upheaval in the corporate sector – even with insolvency reform
I first wrote about the impending insolvency deluge on July 7. Back then the commentariat was focused on Victoria’s fresh…
Is this the narcissism epidemic?
Spare a thought for the Instagram influencers and social media mavens of Victoria: they haven’t been recognised in public for, like,…
Reading, writing – and gender studies
Let’s play a game of spot the odd one out and see how you go. New South Wales Greens Senator…
Government has never been so big – and yet so incompetent
In the history of Australia, never has government been so big and yet so incompetent in dealing with the problems…
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