In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
iWant generation is a corporate feeding ground
‘Don’t care how, I want it now!’ shouts Veruka Salt, from the weighing room of good eggs and bad eggs…
Misinformation laws will not stop the next violent attack, but will shield politicians from tough questions
Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, is pushing ahead with her frivolous lawsuit against social media platform, despite a slap…
Federal Budget forgets what Hawke knew about growth
‘We will not be able to just spend our way out of the mess: we must work our way out of…
Donald Trump: our last stand against globalism
Donald Trump is a symbol. He represents humanity’s last stand against the globalist tyrants who wish to snuff out the…
Modi’s ignorance of Gandhi’s renown shocks the world
Modi’s recent remark about Gandhi’s renown, or in his mind, lack thereof, has shocked the whole world. While giving an…
Foreign issues dominate Australian politics
I miss the days when Australian politicians were only interested in solving Australian problems. Maybe that was never the case,…
Everyone is catching subsidy fever! But will it really lower inflation?
Subsidies are politically infectious right now. Jim Chalmers and Anthony started the latest outbreak with energy subsidies, which they claimed…
Money in decline, society in decline
Society is declining in value because our money is declining in value. This is self-evident. And yet every time I…
NSW refuses to pardon 3,628 children for breaching pandemic orders
New South Wales police fined 3,628 children between 2020-22 for Covid-related ‘offences’. Most were from low socio-economic LGAs. Of these,…
Voice referendum failure is still misunderstood
The profound misunderstanding why over 60 per cent of voters rejected the Voice referendum’s proposition is demonstrated in a May…
The death of the American legal system is the rebirth of Trump
Today we announce the death of the US legal system. The death of Justice. The death of Democracy. And the…
Brace Yourself
Former President Trump was convicted on all 34 counts by the Manhattan jury. Actually, these are just the same alleged…
A new energy transition: coal, nuclear, and natural gas
What is the ‘energy transition’? For Labor, it is a transition to renewables. For the Liberals, it is a transition…
Shark mitigation for surfing
Over recent decades, an increasing rate of shark attacks worldwide has prompted many scientists, entrepreneurs, and governments to develop shark…
US Dollar hegemony
In 1970, at a meeting in Washington DC, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked then chairman of the…
Hamas is being supported by TikTok diplomacy
On May 20, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, Karim Ahmad Khan KC (a British national), called for the arrest of…
Alex Antic: Julian Assange and a Trump Rally
Late last year, I joined a Parliamentary delegation to the United States to speak to US lawmakers and department heads…
Banning live export threatens disaster for Western Australia
Like other Australian urbanites who stomp around our capital cities in their RM Williams, my current knowledge of the bush…
On the road to Gadigal land
How many of us as kids enjoyed – or were forced to undergo – family road trips? Mile after mile…
The ICC defends one false moral equivalence by making another
Last week, in an article in The Australian, I joined many from around the world denouncing the moral equivalence from…
Terrorism to heroism – the Hamas trajectory
How long before a gun-toting, slogan-chanting Hamas fighter (but not a female) is invited to address the UN General Assembly?…
A stealth boondoggle
The NDIS is a public policy albatross, initiated with the worthiest of intentions, that has been allowed to mutate into…
The Sofronoff Express at platform ‘speed’
The Magna Carta meets the ACT’s legal system on the Sofronoff Express in what promises to be a historic and…
Glaciers, graziers, glaziers, and the strangler fig
A perfunctory search on Wikipedia informs that the Strangler Fig, Ficus watkinsiana, ‘grows on another tree, using it as physical support, while…