In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
How soon until we’re told that they’re the real victims?
It’s been the outrage story of the day, the tale of walking arguments against lip filler and botox Olivia Muranga…
Victoria has become a cautionary tale for Australia – and the world
With Victoria’s lockdown now in its 21st day, one would have thought after three weeks there would be some sign…
Seven rules for migrants
Many of us move throughout our lives, some frequently. Sometimes we don’t have much choice about the timing or the…
A pyromaniac in a field of straw men
In 1936, in the preface to the German version of his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard…
Another approach to shark attack
There is talk of a promising new solution to the shark problem. Using technology developed for commercial fishing, standard drum…
China is a threat to our values, not just security
It took some time for Australia to work out for itself what it was. Once freed from the yoke of…
Priorities, priorities…
What’s a little virus with just 295 new cases today? Life, as well as death, goes on in Danandrewstan —…
Technology and the coming revolution in Australian politics
“In terms of crisis, people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.” — Albert Einstein, The World As…
Managing Covid-19 without lockdowns
The fight against COVID-19 is a conundrum replete with knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns — as Donald Rumsfeld might…
Plain packaging has failed. It’s time we looked at alternatives to reduce smoking risks
For some people, hydroxychloroquine cannot possibly prevent or treat COIVD-19 infection because it would vindicate President Trump’s support for it.…
Confucian wisdom
The International Energy Agency is just another international agency that Australia finances in order to receive advice that, if taken,…
Nothing like proving the(ir) ABC’s a sheltered workshop
I’m waiting for white knight Jimmy Barnes to come to the rescue of Ita Buttrose. Ita has taken a cold chisel and cracked…
The forgotten religious roots of #MeToo
A bathrobe-clad Harvey Weinstein raped starlets, or tried to, during meetings he’d arranged with them in his hotel room. He’s…
Coronavirus hasn’t killed you? Don’t worry, there’s a new euthanasia push coming
Jackie Trad (aptly nicknamed The Terminator) wants Queensland to follow the lead of Western Australia and Victoria in giving people…
Empty self-indulgence damages
Those organising the Black Lives Matter protest scheduled for this week in Sydney argue Australia is a racist country riven…
Their ABC’s war on competition
The(ir) ABC is like a greedy, selfish child who sits in the midst of a huge pile of toys refusing…
Anthony Albanese’s capital punishment?
Elections; not state, not federal — but territory — are in the air. The NT votes late next month, followed…
How white were my Greens?
We all know the terrible truth about the Greens; that for all their noise and posturing, they’re largely Julian Burnside…
Why don’t we take the lead tackling big tech’s election meddling?
Why do we as Australians concern ourselves with American politics? Well, they tend to export many ideas to us. The…
Yes, there’s a pandemic, but we have pushed our public finances past the point of no return
The perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” — Treasurer Josh Frydenberg –…
The Morrison Government’s coronavirus response has broken Australian politics
The Morrison Government’s economic response plan to the coronavirus outbreak has effectively broken Australian politics. Up is down, water is…
What’s woke this week?
Racism has remained the backbone of wokedom this past week with stories from the unlikely realms of sleep and K-Pop. Not to be…
Why didn’t we leave the cheese alone – and tackle violence and sexual abuse in Indigenous communities instead?
I’ve managed to go through my whole not so short life without ever associating the name of Coon Cheese with…
Why the left has seized on political correctness and cancel culture
I first warned about the dangers of political correctness in the early 1990s after reading the American academic Dinesh D’Souza’s…
ScoMo and Josh: worse than Whitlam?
In delivering the economic and fiscal update on Thursday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivered on his promise of ‘eye-watering’ numbers. An…
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