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Techtonics: Labor doesn’t even understand why it loses
This is the second in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.…
Sorry Margaret, but you’re a thought criminal
According to the Nine Network and its tedious tabloids, Margaret Court is causing headlines again by demanding that she receive…
What’s woke this week?
Award-winning transgender athletes have been trending in wokeworld this week. Along with that a sleepy little white town in Britain…
Big Brother is watching… porn?
Twenty years ago Australia was labelled as the ‘global village idiot’ by the president of the American Civil Liberties Union…
Not all protestors are created equal
Labor leader Anthony Albanese tweeted his support for people’s democratic right to protest earlier this week. This is what it…
Want to see entrenched racism? Don’t look Downunder
I am often bemused at accusations about Australia having some kind of deep-seated race hate problem. I wonder whether those…
End the man-made drought. Rip up the Murray Darling Basin Plan
The failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is an example of what happens when decisions are taken out of…
The return of Ross Garnaut and climate nirvana?
This week, the Financial Review has featured a return of Ross Garnaut to the climate policy advisory role. Soothingly, he…
Forget racehorses. What about drunk colts and silly fillies?
Yet again, we’re in the middle of the spring racing carnival. And, like every other year, there is so much…
Stasiland?
The late British-American historian Robert Conquest is attributed with a truism that only gets truer with the passing of time:…
God and the Rock – and our parliament and liberties
If there is one thing that I agree most whole-heartedly with, it is the need to let people speak their…
Q&A hits a new low
When I was at university four decades ago, debate raged about the evils of racism, capitalism, colonialism, orientalism and of…
Dan Andrewstan: punch police horses; protest the Cup the next week
The pugnacious pernicious parade of protestors who packed a few powerful punches on “good old Will the police horse” last…
Kanye West, holy fool
Kanye, famous for deifying himself, has found God. For some, Kanye’s konversion is the latest chapter in an eye-rollingly bonkers…
What now for Hong Kong – and our China appeasers?
Working at Radio Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution was my first introduction to politics in China. It was a…
Tinker, tailor, Abbott – spy?
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: GULAG’s confidence in the public service has been reinforced by…
Why is the ABC justifying violence?
Tonight our national broadcaster will take a step too far. It will lose all right to pretend that it’s “unbiased”…
The United Nations is a joke with zero credibility on human rights
Tell us something we don’t know, mate, I can hear you saying right about now. Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no…
Dogma is dominating debate on euthanasia in the West; emotion frustrating facts
The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 is currently before the upper house in Western Australia. The bill has been widely…
Stop those tears! Can’t you see the oceans are already rising?
Another day, another useful and informative bulletin from Extinction Rebellion. It appears that the silly hippies aren’t just scaring innocent…
What’s woke this week?
Roll up! Roll up! The death of a terrorist (and possibly any semblance of balanced reporting), more from the safe…
Yes, companies sometime underpay workers. Get over it
Most of us have now heard that another company — Woolworths this time — has underpaid workers and are going…
Leunig and the loon brigade
The ‘martyr mother’ archetype sums up motherhood in 2019 succinctly. The outrage over Michael Leunig’s illustration ‘Phoney Love’ is proof…
ScoMal goes green to GULAG glee
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: The exhilaration! CBD’s Christmases (oops seasons) are coming early. Just…
Washington, we have a problem (and probably Canberra too)
Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of…
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