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

An epistle from the Clementines

10 October 2018 12:44 pm

You can read the extract of Clem’s letter to her son in Fairfax Media here. But if it makes no…

Mt Panorama; pinnacle of patriots

10 October 2018 8:05 am

In Australia, as in most other affluent western countries, nationalism is no longer fashionable. Quite the opposite actually – we’ve…

Hitler: “Trump is Hitler.”

9 October 2018 9:00 pm

No, this isn’t like The Sun, discovering via ouija board before the 1987 British general election that Joseph Stalin intended…

A new type of terror hits Israel

9 October 2018 4:36 pm

Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, and Ziv Hajbi, 35, were shot dead by a Palestinian terrorist on this Sunday, October 7. Both…

The Opera House is not a billboard – for anyone or any cause

9 October 2018 1:04 pm

I have a reluctant confession to make. I sort of agree with Bill Shorten. Sort of. The Sydney Opera House…

Do we want a nation run like a union – or a booming business?

9 October 2018 7:49 am

The CEO of USA Inc, Donald Trump, has concluded the win-win-win US-Mexico-Canada trade deal; total US unemployment has dropped to…

Are the ABC FactCheck scales of justice weighted?

8 October 2018 7:33 pm

Last week your ABC ran a fact-check on a statement by Senator Matt Canavan — well, it actually had a…

The private life of the Honey Badger

8 October 2018 4:46 pm

In a week where most of the Australian mainstream media have been focused on Nick (aka, ‘the-honey-badger’) Cummins’ antics in…

Caring, compassionate Clem

8 October 2018 2:07 pm

If you’re prone to nausea when listening to the dribble of hypocrites, may I suggest you take some Mylanta tablets…

The war on our soldiers

8 October 2018 7:39 am

Winston Churchill and George Orwell have both been attributed with saying “People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only…

How do I tell my poor darling daughter about Brett Kavanaugh?

7 October 2018 7:34 pm

This morning over breakfast, my eight-year-old said to me: “How can we live in a world where survivors’ stories are…

The week in the world of misandry

5 October 2018 3:02 pm

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. A 39-year-old…

Let this rape survivor tell you: fake rape claims harm

5 October 2018 10:24 am

A person doesn’t forget the date, year, time, place and environment in which they were raped and I should know.…

Marise and the Mad Mullahs

5 October 2018 7:42 am

Marise Payne is the new Foreign Minister of Australia; she will be an even more pareve version of Julie Bishop.…

How Ford denied Kavanaugh a defence

4 October 2018 8:56 pm

It isn’t that Dr Catherine Blasey Ford’s testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee alleging attempted rape by Judge…

How Fred Flintstone flattened the Iron Curtain

4 October 2018 3:11 pm

On September 30 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour…

Ten flaws with Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony

4 October 2018 7:57 am

I once heard of a young woman who decided to become a Christian after reading a single verse from the…

Brett Kavanaugh has religious protections against lunatic left-wingers. We don’t

3 October 2018 6:24 pm

I am sure you all remember that old poem by the German Lutheran Pastor, Martin Niemöller. No? Then let me…

The ‘tampon tax’ is not sexist. Removing it is

3 October 2018 12:21 pm

The price of a name-brand pack of ladies’ sanitary pads with wings is around $5.00. A packet of name-brand extra-absorbent…

Does our “culture of whatever” mark a new dark age?

3 October 2018 7:40 am

It’s almost an absurd question. Smartphones have put the world’s knowledge at our fingertips. Passenger jets fly us to the…

World, welcome to the middle-classes

2 October 2018 5:06 pm

While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh, whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was and the ramblings of…

How the Greens power plan would leave you in the red

2 October 2018 7:18 am

One of the under-reported stories to come out of last week was Greens leader Richard Di Natale’s address at the…

MBT: Malcolm Boycott Turnbull?

1 October 2018 3:19 pm

In the annals of Test cricket, there’s never been a cricketer as self-centred, single-minded and selfish as English batsman Geoffrey…

Chinese eyes, Five Eyes

1 October 2018 8:47 am

The ABC’s China correspondent, Mathew Carney, recently delivered a chilling report on mass surveillance in communist China, Leave no dark…

Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo inquisition

30 September 2018 5:11 pm

One particular aspect that has been repeatedly overlooked—yes, I’m referring to you Huffington Post—throughout the whole judicial fiasco involving the…