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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.…
Forget coronavirus. The ABC wants to know if you’re suffering from “climate grief”
“Climate grief” is overwhelming many Australians who now suffer from “eco-despair” because of global warming, the ABC has warned. The…
How white was my tele
Racism is a diverse creature. It survives as a pilot-fish ideology that attaches itself to human civilisation, suckled at the…
Clive Palmer: the unlikely canary in the coalmine
In 2002, Geoff Gallop’s Labor government in Western Australia entered into a state agreement with Mineralogy, Clive Palmer’s company, for…
What’s a hammer and sickle on a campaign office wall among friends?
Be careful what you put on your office walls – or at least where you take your photographs: A small icon…
It’s on: we’ve triggered an official OHS investigation of Victoria’s hotel quarantine farce
Yesterday, on behalf of Self Employed Australia, I wrote to the Victorian WorkCover Authority requesting them to investigate the Covid-19…
Public administration in New South Wales and Victoria has failed us
Between them nearly three-quarters of a million people earn their living from the public purse in Australia’s two largest States.…
Will generation lockdown write good history?
Twenty-first century history is being made each day. The news is full of statue-toppling anarchists and clueless looters, politicians making…
What’s woke this week (or racist)?
Another week, more rounds of ‘Ring a ring a racist’. Pick a subject, any subject and it’s probably made an…
Daniel Andrews is openly using the corona crisis against non-unionised workers
You start to worry that democracy in Victoria is under threat. It’s one thing for government to impose curfews, massive…
The miracle of coronavirus: 350 flu deaths for July 2019, just one in July 2020
We have become trapped in a political and media fear narrative that exaggerates the risks of COVID and creates highly…
“My name is Karen, I’m from Queensland and I’m here to help…”
Former prime minister Karen Rudd will lead a new government agency to approve cartoons before they go to print. Mr…
Fact checking finds ABC’s Fact Check un-factual
As small businesses close their doors forever, right across the country, the(ir) ABC still continues with the chorus of “Brother,…
A reminder: government can’t save everyone and everything.
As a collective, Australians generally dislike the government involving itself unnecessarily in our daily lives and expanding the ever-growing influence…
Why stop at ending HECS-HELP for failing students? Give the universities some skin in the game
Some students have accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt without obtaining a qualification. In response, the government…
Hello. I’m a smiling bureaucrat. Would you like to be patronised? Let me patronise you…
Hello. Are you an idiot? Would you like me to treat you like an idiot? Are you under 10? Would…
Beneath the mask
With mask-wearing obligatory and restrictions in our movements, we sink further into ourselves. This is not necessarily a bad thing;…
Not so accidental guerillas: how to counter the modern rioter
“They sayin’ Black Lives Matter and all this stuff,” he said. “But man, you’re hurting the black community.” These are the…
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