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Bill Shorten: third time lucky?
When Anthony Albanese was elevated to the Labor leadership in May last year, there was hope that he would at…
How can singing “Never, never, never shall be slaves” upset Black Lives Matter?
You would imagine that a song about ‘never, never, never’ being slaves would make the Black Lives Matter movement happy. Aside…
The decrees of Dan Andrews, deciphered.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews must be shocked to find not everyone is happy with his desire to continue to devastate…
The dictatorship of the health bureaucracy
Much has been written over the last few months about how unelected bureaucrats, with the unquestioning acquiescence of our politicians, have…
Time to put the spotlight on Big Tech’s lobbyists
Big Tech, including Google, has spent an estimated $582m lobbying the United States Congress since 2005. Google has spent big…
Another supercilious superannuation superimposition
Here’s a little nugget that the superannuation ticket clippers won’t tell you. Early Covid related superannuation withdrawals come with a…
The Greens admit: we’re washed up
Knifed Greens leader Richard Di Natale makes his valedictory speech in the Senate this week so, naturally, the party that…
Why is it safe to mock some women in politics?
South Australian Liberal Nicolle Flint caused a stir on social media at the end of last month when she released…
White Comcars reflect our colonial past? Really?
The 6 Series GT BMW cars that replaced the taxpayer-funded Comcar fleet made up of Holden Caprices are being withdrawn from…
The class of Covid-19
While coronavirus poses a deadly threat to older people, it is young Australians who will take the heaviest hit from…
Big Super: the big unions’ big ripoff
Never has there been a more appropriate time to fix Australia’s antiquated superannuation system. The COVID-19 crisis has thrown the…
Lockdown or lectures from leftist luvvies? It’s hard to tell what’s worse
Not content with locking citizens in their homes and destroying their livelihoods, the Victorian Government has now employed television’s most…
Leon Trotsky, sex symbol
In a very recent article the very learned journalist, Douglas Murray, enquired (almost rhetorically) why there were people today who called themselves…
Chairman Dan’s cure for COVID-19? Waleed Aly
Life in Victoria right now is a sad, bleak shadow of its former self. Businesses have closed their doors forever,…
The government needs to wean itself off tobacco tax
Albert Einstein pointed out the obvious when he said, “We can not solve our problems with the same level of…
The granddad speech
CNN is saying the Biden speech proves he isn’t an old man, even though anyone with elderly parents would recognize…
Is it time that we learned to stand on our own two feet instead of cashing in on the market for victimhood?
Back in at January, the Benson Centre for the study of Western Civilisation hosted noted scholar Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In…
If we outsource our thinking to artificial intelligence will we also surrender responsibility – and more?
Artificial Intelligence can’t come soon enough, especially if one considers the behaviour of some people in the middle of the…
Go have a long lunch, Emma, and put away the phone
It’s awful losing your job. Bloody awful. Full stop. Most of us have been there one time or another. We…
The brave new world of ‘moral bioenhancement’
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t. …
The cultural juggernaut of transgender ideology: not kids’ stuff
Even as an adult, it can be an intimidating and daunting task to untangle and challenge the lies of transgender…
Labor: the party of the workers – or the woke?
Labor might need to split into two separate parties if it is to represent workers as well as inner-city poodle…
California dreamin’, our cheap and reliable electricity nightmare
Matthew Warren in the AFR three days ago was highly critical of the electricity market manager’s proposed spending on new…
Look out, Lidia’s parading to parliament
In case you’re under the illusion that 2020 cannot possibly get any worse, I’m afraid I bring bad news. Lidia…
A coronavirus vaccine? Great – but make it safe, effective and reliable, please
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen governments, universities and pharmaceutical companies in a mad scramble for a cure and a vaccine.…
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