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Backwards & Forwards: Glad’s back as Scott sees salvation
Looking back: Berejiklian’s Glad to be back On Saturday the Coalition government of New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian was…
Doing it for the kids
There’s been a lot in the news about how cool the kids are. As Whitney Houston sang before using her…
NSW: a reality check
Congratulations to Gladys and the hair gel lads for their result yesterday. And for Scot, here’s a history lesson. On…
The Tasmanian yacht murder: a groundbreaking new appeal
In a historic decision to grant Sue Neill-Fraser leave to appeal against her 2010 murder conviction, Justice Brett of Tasmania’s…
What’s a girl got to do to get elected nowadays?
I’m wondering what a girl named Gladys has got to do to get elected nowadays. Winning Sky News debates is…
The Christchurch chaos exercise
Scissor statements are weird. They’re something that most people can’t instantly define, yet they are an inextricable element of today’s…
Gladys Berejiklian: Liberal legend?
If Gladys Berejiklian wins the state election she will be a certified New South Wales Liberal legend. There have been…
Recep Erdoğan’s war on history
The most touching, if not confronting, memorial at Anzac Cove is the sandstone plinth inscribed with words attributed to Kemal…
Women in parliament problem? Your answer’s Rwanda
The Coalition has received sustained media and ALP criticism regarding their percentage of women in parliament – so much so…
Hire two new pen-pushers: that’s economic reform, NSW Liberal style
Last May at the New South Wales Business Chamber, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announced with great fanfare the state would establish…
Eighty-nine billion new reasons to quit the Paris Agreement
Momentum continues to build for Australia to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. New economic modelling prepared by Managing Director of…
Why this Conservative believes Fraser Anning couldn’t be more wrong
I was working out of a coffee shop in Cairns overlooking Trinity Inlet when my Twitter feed went nuts with…
Is virtue signalling our new social currency?
The internet was imagined by its pioneers to be the arbiter of a new information renaissance, believing that it would…
Ten reasons why Donald Trump will win a second term
In one of those classic, “the truth is stranger than fiction” scenarios, it’s been revealed that former First Lady Hillary…
The scare is settled? Have the climate catastrophists won?
Evidence does not seem to matter in the debate on human-induced climate change. Hardly anyone is listening to reason. Minds…
Memo, Josh: only fiscal discipline works long term
Former Treasurer Wayne Swan’s valedictory speech hailed the legacy of his stimulus package (but not the subsequent — and growing…
Christchurch: a time for tears
I attended the funeral service of a Christian minister last year. In the eulogy, his son told us how gentle…
Why Labor’s changes to capital gains fail the fairness test
In the run-up to the next election, the Labor party continues to press the narrative that its proposed policies are…
Backwards & Forwards: the week in politics gone, the week to come
Looking back Last Thursday, with millennials convulsed by the unprecedented crash of Facebook and Instagram, New Zealand’s Canterbury Police tweeted…
The identity politics of the lunar right
On Friday 50 people were massacred in New Zealand; murdered by a terrorist who looked at women and children and…
It’s all wishful thinking, but boy does it drive clicks
Independent. Always. Ah, yes. That pledge below the mastheads of Nine Entertainment’s left-wing tabloids to give you the sort of…
The Christchurch killer behind the headlines
What makes a man apparently plan in cold blood for two years the mass murder of his fellow human beings,…
Is Jordan Peterson a ‘gateway’ drug to Nazism?
At the recent Lesbians Who Tech summit in San Francisco—no, seriously, it’s a thing— Susan Wojicicki, the CEO of YouTube,…
Climate strike? In my day it was nuclear first strike
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction…
Venezuela’s not alone at the end of the road to serfdom
Venezuela in social and economic collapse provides a contemporary case study of where socialism takes a country, but one too…
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