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Put coal back in the Coalition energy policy
Most protagonists of nuclear power like to say it is clean, meaning no CO2 is released, as though this is…
Are they criminalising hate speech, or valid criticism of gender politics?
On the first of May, Queensland began living under the Criminal Code (Serious Vilification and Hate Crimes) and Other Legislation Amendment…
Mugged by bad law
In the course of human affairs and communications, words have specific meanings, and nowhere is this more important than in…
Double Shot S2E11 Civil disobedience… When is it moral and just to defy bad laws? – Neil Oliver and Michael Arbon
Special guest Neil Oliver joins us from the UK to discuss the pressing question of civil disobedience. As Australia and…
Scream louder: we will not suffer the e-Stasi Commissar
A healthy democracy has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to censors. As I pledged on Spectator TV last week, One…
The Resolute desk needs a resolute occupant
Like others perhaps, I used to think that the ‘Resolute desk’ in the Oval Office of the White House was…
WA Court of Appeal upholds Police Commissioner’s powers to mandate Covid vaccination
Senior Constable Ben Falconer and Police staff member Les Finlay lost their appeals in the WA Court of Appeal against…
Albanese’s political censorship plan
No wonder the Albanese government is worried about misinformation. This week as news broke about an horrific attack on an Australian couple…
Was Lehrmann’s presumption of innocence left in the ‘lions’ den’?
It was over dinner that a former senior Australian Federal Police investigator brought it up. A question no one appears…
The modern obsession with ‘green’ investment
The recently deceased Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway was arguably the most successful investor ever. He was noted for his…
‘E-safety’: the new thought police
Give an inch and they’ll take a mile – it is fair to say Australians are waking up to the…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E12: Are you getting ripped off at the supermarket? Rebecca Weisser, Stuart Ballantyne & Nick Hossack
The only thing worse than living through a cost of living crisis is being ripped off. Australians are looking at…
Is there a plot afoot to get rid of Albo?
Speculation, of course, but Albanese is either uncommonly talented in the art of self-destruction, or Labor is getting ready to…
Record business collapses… I am not surprised
This is not the first time Australians have abandoned their dreams
Men: locked up without trial
This is an experienced criminal lawyer talking about the men, the increasing proportion of our prison population, who find themselves…
What’s mined is yours
If you thought you understood the seemingly endless line of new Indigenous terminology, two more were recently coined by the…
Australia’s global advocacy for the suppression of free speech
The Australian government has recently announced its plan to rejuvenate its contentious ‘misinformation and disinformation’ legislation, which had been shelved…
The Covid vaccine is dead! Long live the Covid vaccine…?!
Did you know that four years after the Great Covid Pandemonium erupted, vaccine mandates are still being enforced in the…
Energy fog – trust your lying eyes
Attending an Anzac Day service, I only noticed the fog as it lifted and the sun emerged. In a similar…
The heir of Orwell
It took 1,084,170 words for JK Rowling to tell the story of Harry Potter. Spanning seven books and a decade,…
Oh no, don’t meme me!
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is terrified of memes. Specifically, Winnie-the-Pooh. Since July 2017, the harmless bear has…
How not to play warcraft
The Australian Labor Party has drifted a long way from its roots and is now more about the welfare of…
Other options for the economy?
In the UK, inflation figures were stated to have been disappointing, with CPI falling down from 3.4 per cent to 3.2 instead…
The Liberals, coal, and nuclear power
In a famous 1963 speech, US civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. said: ‘I have a dream that my…
The war on misinformation is a sham
Anthony Albanese claims to be fighting a war on so-called ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. He recently exclaimed that ‘Australians want misinformation…
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