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If one scientist was enough for Einstein…
How many scientists do you need to demonstrate to policymakers in words they can understand that CO2 is not a…
CBD: Palmer and Shorten, blood brothers fighting for the workers
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Recent polling suggesting a surge of newfound popularity for Clive Palmer gives CBD comfort…
Magical mystery tour or highway to hell for Labor’s big red bus?
Pollsters stay at home on long weekends, but anyone watching Bill Shorten’s magical mystery tour on the big red diesel…
Why it’s all too white in Westeros
The old leftie George R R Martin discovers that you can never be woke enough. Because the world of the…
Three myths about equality Labor wants you to believe
Labor leader Bill Shorten is running under the motto — “A Fair Go for Australia” — but is his party…
Backwards & Forwards: happy clappy happy
The week in politics, the week to come: Looking back Scott Morrison and the Coalition won the week. Nothing more…
Notre Dame, Good Friday and Israel Folau
It’s wonderful news that all of a sudden Rugby Union Australia believe in God, Heaven and Hell. Many of us…
Notre Dame and the fate of the West
With the cause of the blaze that took down much of Notre Dame still uncertain (accident, arson, terrorism?), many commentators…
What’s woke this week?
In France, trees have become sentient beings with rights, no less, while in Britain a man self-identifies as a dog.…
Israel Folau and the tyranny of tolerance
Rugby Australia’s attempt to remove Israel Folau from the game is now being presented as nothing more than a matter…
Are you, or have you ever been, a climate sceptic?
Well, it’s official. Australian politicians face a religious test for office. But it doesn’t have anything to do with God.…
Bob Brown’s Adani convoy: an invasive species on the move
Australia has, throughout our history, been subjected to invasive species. Rabbits, cane toads, prickly pear and Indian mynah birds are…
CBD: BS didn’t have a bad day, it was the right-wing media
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Why does bad luck have to come at all let alone in threes? Especially…
A tale for this week of death and resurrection
Notre Dame burned. Like many in Australia, I woke up yesterday to the news of the fire that consumes the…
Peter Ridd has defeated the Climate Inquisition thanks to you
Peter Ridd was a professor at James Cook University who dared to question claims that the Great Barrier Reef is…
Election 19 and the Pam Ewing effect
In 1987 Pamela Ewing woke up to find Bobby emerging from the bathroom wearing only a towel and haircut. Presumed…
We mourn Notre Dame with France as we are closer than you think
In our deep sadness about the terrible fire in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, it is apparent how…
CBD: when it comes to principle vs principal, Australian Rugby outdoes any pol
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Freedom should never be an election issue. Just imagine if people started voting on…
Uh-oh, Generation Z are voting
One of the many groups in whose hands the fate of our nation lies, is generation Z. Though it has…
Here’s hoping for a better week for freedom in Australia
Our national anthem begins with the triumphant line Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free. But…
Election 2019: A song of Lies and Ire
The dragons are back – as is Cercei, Jon Snow, Danerys Targeryn, Sansa and Arya Stark and the rest of…
CBD: GetUp – organic grassroots movement or some strange GMO?
Our perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: Slip, slop, slap. What an election winning strategy for us CBDs announced by BS…
Backwards & Forwards: towards the campaign black hole
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Last Thursday, the eternal sunlight of the spotless mind erased…
A case study: how energy policies kill jobs and business – and Labor will be worse
The fall into administration of Queensland company Claypave, established as Rylance Colliery and Brickworks in Ipswich in the 1880s, points…
Let’s aim to be radically civil
In a period of political polarisation and rabid tribalism, we have lost the art of disagreeing well. Next month’s federal…
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