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What now? A five point plan for post pandemic prosperity
Australians in every state are waiting anxiously for lockdown restrictions to ease. Businesses stand poised to flip their signs to…
Behind Annastacia Palaszczuk’s border wars
The decision to close the Queensland border to protect citizens from the spread of coronavirus, like many other decisions the…
We are no longer alone staring down China
Insiders panellist and ABC host Raf Epstein observed last Sunday that it would have been better if Australia hadn’t chosen…
What about relief from the Student Services and Amenities Fee?
While Daniel Andrews hands out thousands of dollars to international students in Victoria, domestic students are left to foot the…
Revealed: the price we’ll pay for a wind-solar rich electricity system
Australian Energy Market Operator CEO, Audrey Zibelman, has foreshadowed the possibility of Australia reaching 75 per cent renewable energy in…
‘You have stolen my childhood!” Really?
Number seven in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…
Beware the Curse of Clem?
Media Week, May 17, 2019: In the first birthday week of 10 Daily, the editor of the Network 10 digital…
What on earth is wrong with having a Christian in the Lodge?
From the moment Pentecostal church-going Scott Morrison became Prime Minister his Christian faith has been the subject of hot debate.…
Revealed: ABC climate activism exposed by IPA FOI requests
As reported by Chris Kenny in The Australian today, over 300 pages of Freedom of Information documents obtained by free-market…
EXCLUSIVE: Extinction Rebellion’s surprise new best friend? The Australian Industry Group
You all know the old line “The capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with”. It’s attributed variously…
Sacking Alan Jones was never the end goal
Anyone who’s been paying attention to the foulest fringes of the culture wars knows that Alan Jones was never the…
The Heretic: inside Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on climate change
‘The Heretic: Inside Peter Ridd’s fight for freedom of speech on Climate Change’ is a new serialised documentary podcast by…
The Seinfeld climate change debate
Irony is a wonderful thing. One year ago, thousands of misguided schoolchildren around the world hit the streets campaigning for climate change action, but…
Even Victoria’s Chief Health Officer admits it: coronavirus restrictions have been arbitrary
Early this week, Liberal Democrat David Limbrick MP asked an excellent science question of the Victorian Chief Medical Officer appearing…
How we’ve cooled on China
Welcome to the political chaos theory –- or, should we say, fact: a bat flapping its wings in China produces…
Without fossil fuels, the Wuhan Flu would have us beat
Number six in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…
Corona college
The corona/Wuhan/Covid-19 virus has done an excellent job of educating everyone in Australia regardless of politics — except for Bob…
Is tomorrow’s School Strike 4 Climate still on?
Now that CNN has decided Greta Thunberg is an expert on coronavirus, we’re wondering if tomorrow’s School Stike 4 Climate…
This pandemic is about more than identity politics. True
Australia’s National LGBTI Health Alliance has said of coronavirus “We acknowledge the panic, frustration, confusion and uncertainty felt by many…
This is what a lockdown economy looks like
Straight from the horse’s mouth — with an important qualification. The ABS has changed its definitions. This means people paid…
Pigs might fly – and the left might for once admit their errors
It took the coughing fit of the Treasurer for some real claws to come out. “It’s not a good look now…
Just what’s going on in Queensland politics?
Queensland’s recent local government elections, combined with two state by-elections, provide a window into what might happen at the next…
Alan Jones, tribune of the people
David Flint writes: Alan Jones, probably the most influential commentator in the Australian media has announced his retirement from leading…
Look at our history: protectionism doesn’t work
We rarely think about supply chains – those immensely complex networks of production and logistics that structure the economy. That…
Those nosy neighbours are watching
“They’re not happy with you.” My friend Mary takes a sip of her green tea and beams. I don”t know…
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