In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Scripture sniping as The SMAge spouts the Good Book to foul Folau
John Tait has written an article for the Channel Nine tabloids, designed to bring clarity to the question Israel Folau…
It mightn’t be sexy, but manufacturing got us to the moon
Almost forty years ago, in fact, during the time of the Hawke Labor government, Australia fell for a pea and…
Meet 007’s most fearsome enemy: a politically correct lack of imagination
The meh news of the week: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged…
A religious freedom commissioner: not just worse than doing nothing, but the wrong thing
Attorney-General Christian Porter intends to put the proposed religious discrimination bill to Parliament in the near future. Unveiling the government’s…
To save Western Civilisation, turn right
C S Lewis once observed that when you are going in the wrong direction, the thing to do is go…
How is it fair that unions pay no income tax?
The ACTU continually complain that business, including small business, don’t pay their fair share of income tax. The complaints often…
Forget when Belle Gibson will get jail. When will her victims get justice?
When the Belle Gibson trial hit the news again recently all I was able to do was ‘watch on’ as…
Have Their ABC declared Bob Brown an unperson for heresy against the great green goddess Gaia?
‘Unperson’. You know the word. George Orwell coined it for Nineteen Eighty-Four, as being someone erased from society, the past,…
An end to parliamentary rorts in one easy step
This week, Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon passionately defended the $46,000 electoral allowance which he, like other MPs, receives from taxpayers…
How will more pen-pushers help the Great Barrier Reef?
The idea that the Great Barrier Reef is in need of saving from catastrophe is popular, especially among academics and…
Advice from a happy migrant: love it or leave
Donald Trump and his typing fingers are in trouble again (as they are pretty much every day) for telling “the Squad”…
Is Black Widow leading a fightback against wokeness in the arts?
Scarlett Johansson is in deep-shit again for raging against identity politics. In 2018, Johansson abandoned her starring role as a…
Why is NSW fining farmers under laws that no longer exist?
The New South Wales government must grant an amnesty to all farmers who are being prosecuted under laws which no…
Taxpayers always deserve a break
The passing of the government’s major tax package is good news in a number of different ways. Stage 3 of…
About that climate change election…
The 2019 federal poll was meant to be the ‘Climate Change Election’ according to Greens leader Richard Di Natale and…
An alphabet for ‘progressives’
Progressivism has become so pervasive that it’s about time that a children’s book was written for the political left. We’ve…
Transgender: born this way?
In April, Tasmania legislated birth certificate reforms, making gender on birth certificates optional, and removes the requirement for transgender people…
Labor’s embarrassing, unwanted party guest, John Setka
Some of you may recall the 2019 federal election. You may recall that the Australian Labor Party lost “the unlosable…
Journalism is not a crime – but it’s not above the law, either
If any further evidence is required to demonstrate the complete lack of self-reflection and wayward moral compass of the ABC,…
Constitutional recognition? Cathartic for conservatives, a gift for GULAG
Brother Number One of the Canberra Cadre writes: Why does GULAG need to win elections when SM’s team does all…
Health care ‘apartheid’
The proposal to launch Australia’s first Indigenous-only hospital raises a number of questions and is problematic on a number of…
Epstein and Clinton: a tale of two searches
I have written about the scumbag Jeffrey Epstein before; in any case, he’s all over the news again so you…
What the world needs now is love, sweet love: ScoMo
In a speech to the Hillsong church in Sydney on Wednesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison riffed intriguingly on the power…
Farming, fibs and Four Corners
From little things, big things grow. And so, for the 60 odd years until the nineteen-nineties, we saw the land…
Their ABC: tax cuts cause crime
Over the past few years, it’s been clear that despite all the public noise peace terms of a kind have…