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

A millennial explains: 10 reasons why my generation fell for climate catastrophism

14 January 2020 5:00 am

Back in 2012 The Australian published an article warning that by this year there would be hardly any more snow…

I can’t face the cesspool so will someone tell the Twitter loons: wise up – and chill out

13 January 2020 5:18 pm

As you can see from the above illustration, Scott Morison causes bushfires.   So egregious is the culpability of our arsonist–in–chief…

Roger Scruton: insightful, perceptive, persuasive – and enduring

13 January 2020 4:16 pm

Conservatives around the world will be mourning the death of Sir Roger Scruton, a towering intellect and cultural critic whose…

Only our silliest republicans are excited by Megxit. Are the others wising up?

13 January 2020 2:26 pm

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s announcement to step back as “senior royals” has predictably drawn fierce speculation – former palace press secretary Dickie…

Why should we keeping funding the “toxic masculinity” false narrative?

13 January 2020 11:00 am

Australia is already facing difficult truths over land management.  Funding fraudulent narratives is dangerous – and an undeniable false economy.  If…

The year of the Albo?

13 January 2020 5:00 am

Be afraid. Be very afraid. For 2020 may well be the year of the Albo. The Labor leader made a…

The climate crazies out to topple the PM should really think things through

12 January 2020 5:37 pm

On Friday protesters took the streets of our nation’s major cities by the tens of thousands, for what they called…

Why it’s fine to laugh at Greta Thunberg

12 January 2020 5:00 am

During an end-of-year review on the ABC’s serious definitely not tabloid 7.30, Australian celebrity and journalistic vox pops spoke glowingly…

Brainfart at Tiffany’s

11 January 2020 4:06 pm

Because the extraction of gold, diamonds, platinum and other precious metals and jewels — and their working — has nothing…

The price of green folly

10 January 2020 5:10 pm

Green Folly locked up 11 per cent of Australia in a tinder-box of bushfire fuel, much of which is now…

Of course our leaders won’t measure up if we demand too much of them

10 January 2020 2:00 pm

Having watched the disgusting spectacle of Scott Morrison parading around devastated areas trying to shake people’s hands against their will,…

Harry and Meghan: ignore the so-called experts and leave them alone

10 January 2020 12:00 pm

Forget about Royal ‘experts’ who claim that there is some ‘Royal Split’, that Prince Charles and Prince William are ‘incandescent’…

Stuff woke. Be practical

10 January 2020 5:00 am

There has been enough social commentary on our bushfire crisis and climate change to fill Lake Eyre, so I’ll refrain…

Now the(ir) ABC wants to milk disaster

9 January 2020 5:31 pm

Listen… Do you hear it? The(ir) ABC is playing the world’s teeny tiniest violin. They want us to believe they…

When Kylie Jenner is more practical than the entire parliamentary Greens, we’re in trouble

9 January 2020 3:18 pm

You’d think the last thing the Greens would want to do at the moment is produce more hot air, but…

G’day world! We’re still here, open for business

9 January 2020 12:47 pm

People like me with families and friends overseas are getting concerned and panicky messages to check if we’re safe in…

Sussexit? So what? We’re governed by the people and the parliament, not celebrities

9 January 2020 11:00 am

When Aristotle wrote his treatise on politics, he explained in some detail his most practical regime, the one that was…

How we lost our stars – and our beliefs

9 January 2020 5:00 am

One of the most popular — and best-named books — ever written about Hollywood was Harold Robbins’s novel The Dream Merchants. Published…

Sorry, doom-mongers, but it’s not World War III

8 January 2020 3:00 pm

In the days since the assassination of Iranian Revolution Guard Corps leader Major General Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent Iranian missile attack this morning on…

Iran attacks – as America’s left wing stops flying

8 January 2020 1:09 pm

As Iran fires off missiles at US military bases — but avoiding the big ones with lots of American soldiers — in…

We need a natural disaster supremo – and Tony Abbott’s the man for the job

8 January 2020 5:00 am

As catastrophic bushfires continue to rage across south-eastern Australia, as property continues to burn, human and animal lives continue to…

The Greens: cashing in on death and destruction

7 January 2020 6:03 pm

It’s an ill wind and all that — and the Greens are certainly making hay while the bush burns. Only…

Ricky Gervais wakes the woke

7 January 2020 2:38 pm

Ricky Gervais, putative hero of the common man, was at his acerbic best at the Golden Globes, laying down a…

Fighting fire with fires

7 January 2020 12:44 pm

The fire-lighter was the most powerful tool that early humans brought to Australia. Fires lit by Aboriginal men and women…

Dear vegans, you don’t have more rights than any udders

7 January 2020 5:00 am

Democracy allows choice and freedom.  From the land that has finally delivered Brexit, the next battleground is as eye–raising as…