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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Yummy #MeToo

4 November 2018 10:46 am

I fess up. I too have been called Yummy. Not, sadly, as a stand-alone noun but as an adjective in…

Literacy: a conservative value

2 November 2018 3:17 pm

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read that links the letters of the alphabet, syllables and words to…

The week in misandry

2 November 2018 1:19 pm

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. Three girls…

Victoria votes: Tammany Hall v Keystone Kops

2 November 2018 7:52 am

One week into the formal Victorian election campaign, and it’s becoming clear we have a contest between Labor’s Tammany Hall…

Faith schools need the right to hire and fire

1 November 2018 6:19 pm

In the hasty and overheated reaction to the leaked recommendations of the Ruddock review, pressure is building to remove the rights of…

The problem with white men

1 November 2018 3:26 pm

When life gives you Don Lemons, it’s time to switch off CNN: Translation: we have to stop demonising some people…

Logic creams milk levy criticism

1 November 2018 12:04 pm

The past fortnight has seen loud criticism of the milk price levy applied by supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths to assist…

Good luck with that religious freedom, ScoMo

1 November 2018 7:39 am

Scott Morrison really has his work well and truly cut if he intends to protect our religious freedom without antagonising…

Sorry, Australia, but Joko says “no”

31 October 2018 4:02 pm

Australia does not have the permission of Indonesia’s President to relocate our Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem.…

Fresh foreign threats to free speech on universities

31 October 2018 1:04 pm

The growing concern about academic freedom and free speech on university campuses typically relates to illiberal student activists shutting down…

What’s Labor got against life?

31 October 2018 7:51 am

I was brought up as a devout Roman Catholic, but one of the reasons why I left the Church was…

The social media giants have stopped even pretending

30 October 2018 6:19 pm

Sure, they are private businesses and so they can do whatever they want with their users but at least in…

Rustbelt Libs smash small business over vacuous vaping claims

30 October 2018 3:06 pm

As the South Australian Government forces $60 million worth of local small businesses to close their doors, they are also…

How markets are making our lives better

30 October 2018 11:07 am

The latest data out of the ABS reveal that we’re spending ever more money on dining out and takeaway. Indeed,…

Nauru kids and “resignation syndrome”: a political diagnosis

30 October 2018 7:46 am

The term “resignation syndrome” arose just over a decade ago in Sweden. It described what doctors were seeing among refugees…

Try a little tenderness

29 October 2018 8:00 pm

Prime Minister Scot Morrison’s Christianity has been under the media spotlight recently. All the reporting showed me that when people…

Forget global warming, here’s some really spooky science

29 October 2018 4:26 pm

Newton’s Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This (along with his First…

The Bosphorus option

29 October 2018 12:09 pm

Failed leaders or pretenders to the throne in the old Ottoman Empire received no mercy. Having failed the test to…

Grow a juicy kick-arse vagina and stop whinging

29 October 2018 7:56 am

The #MeToo campaign goes up my arse sideways. The once empowering movement has transformed into a violent and hateful vendetta…

Nanny Gladys ignores the facts again

28 October 2018 6:43 pm

In unsurprising news, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian this week announced she would adopt all of the recommendations made…

Ten things Sinead O’Connor will learn from her new religion

28 October 2018 10:48 am

You’ve probably already heard that Sinead O’Connor has converted to Islam. But the problem is, I don’t think she really…

Why snowflakes’ Post Trump Stress Disorder has become real PTSD

26 October 2018 8:47 pm

Mass hysteria is gripping significant sections of the left, a seemingly genuine conviction that Donald Trump is Hitler and that…

The week in misandry

26 October 2018 5:24 pm

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. Geoffrey Rush…

Change the rules? How? Change economic reality?

26 October 2018 2:25 pm

The force of gravity, the speed of light, the water cycle and real economic value. All are universal facts that…

Can ScoMo escape Turnbull’s shadow?

26 October 2018 8:51 am

Questions of causation are notoriously tricky as well as being highly susceptible to confirmation bias – in this context that…