In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
An epistle from the Clementines
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
In Australia, as in most other affluent western countries, nationalism is no longer fashionable. Quite the opposite actually – we’ve…
Hitler: “Trump is Hitler.”
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
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
One particular aspect that has been repeatedly overlooked—yes, I’m referring to you Huffington Post—throughout the whole judicial fiasco involving the…