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

Privacy fears over the corona app? We lost our privacy long ago

24 April 2020 2:08 pm

All this carry-on about the corona app is way too late. Worrying about our privacy? We lost that a while…

Our deep thinking corona crusaders – and others

24 April 2020 12:02 pm

In the fight against coronavirus, it is disconcerting to have people barracking for the virus. The latest cheer-leader for the…

Castle falls

24 April 2020 10:07 am

“Thank God.”  I’m sure that is what Israel Folau would like to Tweet right now. The Chief Executive Officer of…

Australia and China: where to after this?

24 April 2020 5:00 am

Coronavirus has reinvigorated discussions around the Sino-Australian relationship. Australia’s dependence on China highlights how interconnected we are on trade and…

School closures hurt disadvantaged families more

23 April 2020 9:53 pm

Schools are one of the most complex parts of the policy response to coronavirus. Policymakers seemingly have to navigate the…

China: diminished and exposed

23 April 2020 5:42 pm

A propaganda banner reads: “Create Happiness for the People”. The CCP, the Chinese Criminal Party, is steeped in the communist…

WHO on earth do they think they are?

23 April 2020 1:40 pm

I woke up this morning to one of the strangest tweets ever. It was from World Health Organisation boss Tedros…

“Corona-sexism”, cry the poor me women brigade

23 April 2020 11:00 am

The Morrison government has poured not one million, not several million, but $1 billion into support services during this coronavirus…

Random thoughts on the coronavirus lockdown 

23 April 2020 5:00 am

For some time now I have been a sceptic as to the relative or statistical dangers of this coronavirus as…

If you want reliable reporting on the corona crisis, don’t bother with the(ir) ABC

22 April 2020 7:11 pm

The(ir) ABC likes to portray itself as the all-knowing, all-seeing receptacle of truth. It spends vast amounts of energy (and other…

RIP climate alarmism: 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’ coffin

22 April 2020 5:03 pm

Reason No.1: The complete collapse in trust in the United Nations and its associated organisations The World Health Organisation and the…

We also need an endgame to help corona cabin fever

22 April 2020 3:11 pm

The government needs to provide more details for their lockdown exit strategy. The lockdowns have isolated people, increased stress and…

Virgin no more

22 April 2020 1:13 pm

Yesterday, Virgin Australia announced to the ASX that it had entered into voluntary administration and that it intended to recapitalize…

Scott, Josh and Mathias: here’s how you get us out of this mess

22 April 2020 11:02 am

The Morrison government has flagged tax cuts and aggressive deregulation as part of a pro-business road to economic recovery. A…

War, death and courage

22 April 2020 5:00 am

Among the victims of coronavirus is our habit of annual pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in Turkey. And, tied to our…

We need to follow Trump and suspend immigration

21 April 2020 6:09 pm

In the years since the global financial crisis successive governments both Labor and Coalition have continued to run extremely high…

Flattening the curve or just muddling on?

21 April 2020 3:30 pm

We appear to have seven Australian governments that are paralysed, unable to decide whether they are really “flattening the curve”,…

The last post for Kokoda?

21 April 2020 1:31 pm

Whoever thought Anzac Day would be defeated by a bat-soup virus from a wet-food market in China or that the…

Miserable ghost Malcolm Turnbull’s ill-timed bigger picture

21 April 2020 11:00 am

Australia is well ahead of most of the West in suppressing coronavirus. Out of a population of 25 million Australia…

Chernobyl and the Chinese flu: spot the difference

21 April 2020 5:00 am

There’s a scene in the HBO mini-series, Chernobyl that bears an uncanny similarity to the current communist cover-up involving COVID-19.…

The lexicon of lockdown: a guide to the new corona-speak

20 April 2020 6:35 pm

The coronavirus epidemic has completely changed the world, including the way we speak. Words that only yesterday meant one thing…

What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain and Tony Abbott have in common?

20 April 2020 4:07 pm

What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain, Tony Abbott and the Australian media have in common? They are all strong-minded and…

The crazy Kiwi corona book ban

20 April 2020 1:44 pm

New Zealand’s Ardern government has outdone even the world’s most authoritarian regimes, banning the sale of fiction. Emails have issued…

Has the Chief Medical Officer replaced the parliament of Danandrewstan?

20 April 2020 11:30 am

The Andrews’ Labor government’s draconian response to the coronavirus pandemic has given all Victorians a taste of what it is…

Malcolm Turnbull and the media fraudsters

20 April 2020 5:00 am

Face it: the identifiable, small, smug cluster of the Australian media elite does not care it’s out of tune with…