In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Warragamba Dam: the political yo-yo of failed water politics
Warragamba Dam is spilling again, but it didn’t have to be this way. There have been warnings for decades about…
Think of the kids: student-led learning finally dies
Most of us were lucky enough to make it through the education system largely unharmed. Today, parents are terrified that…
Victorian budget blues
The best thing that can be said about the 2024 Victorian Budget is that it’s not as bad as recent…
To stock the book or not?
A Sydney council is currently under fire for passing a motion to ban same-sex parenting books from the shelves of…
Campus sit-ins
Let’s be clear. Supporting free speech does not require you to allow people to trespass or to shut down public…
Victoria’s Budget reveals a state strangled by Labor
Forty years ago, John Cain’s Victorian government commenced an era of extravagant expenditure turbocharged by the Victorian Economic Development Corporation (a…
Home-schooling seeks to avoid the cluttered National Curriculum
The Queensland government has declared war on the ever-growing number of parents across the state who have decided to home-school…
Kill comedy, kill truth
French playwright Moliere once said, ‘The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.’ As the share of television…
Free speech … for how much longer?
US President Franklin D Roosevelt, in 1941, pronounced the four fundamental freedoms necessary for life: freedom of speech, freedom to…
The World Health Organisation’s plan for you this May
Most Australians are likely unaware of the proposed new World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Pandemic Treaty or the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR)…
Ten-year Tim condemns Victoria to years of penury
Net debt in Victoria is forecast to hit $187.8 billion by 2027-28
Open all hours! Australia’s north is in big trouble
Stuart Ballantyne views Australia’s dismal military protection
On trade we need more Alexander Hamilton and less Hawke/Keating/Howard
The Albanese government’s Future Built in Australia plan, if nothing else, has certainly caused an unexpected outbreak of bipartisanship among…
Cognitive warfare: how the West is losing its youth
Pro-Palestinian student protests across the US have led to allegations of anti-Israel hate crimes and damage to property and occupations…
Bitcoin critics
Bitcoin critics are exactly the same as the people who blindly obeyed their leaders during Covid. They always appeal to authority. They tell…
Hey Albo, read this…
Hey Albo, read this! This is something, as Prime Minister, you need to know about. It’s called ministerial responsibility –…
Australian Utopianism: causes and cures
In his April 2 Press Club Speech, outgoing Net Zero Economy Agency head Greg Combet set out the government’s grand…
It’s the energy, stupid!
It took political columnist (ex ABC & Nine) Chris Uhlmann to sharpen the point that energy in the economy is the equivalent…
Labor, how do I loathe thee?
I’m probably not alone in finding it surprising that Federal Labor still had around 30 to 32 per cent primary…
Alexandra Marshall Live S2E11 with Billboard Chris
Won’t someone think of the children? Billboard Chris – the prospective ‘victim’ of the e-Safety Commissioner’s Twitter takedown order, has…
Digital ID: privacy and liberty are brothers
This is a variation on the speech I gave over the weekend in Sydney at the One Nation rally against Digital ID.…
Aussie cash: redesigned $5 note goes Woke
Well, that was predictable, as predictable as the sun rising the next morning, though not as welcome. With the late…
Government versus X: the pacification project must not be challenged!
Watching the dystopian-named ‘eSafety’ Commissioner in action is like watching the illegitimate lovechild of a deer caught in the headlights…
Crossing
The announcer said that the train – crowded with women and their children – was nearing the last station before…
Should business schools promote ‘social’ research?
One of the curious things of our sophisticated, yet superficial, information age is that the official websites of most business…