In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Confucius say: relax
You get a glimpse of the real purpose of education when you look at the liberal arts curriculum offered here…
The Incumbent Preservation Society
The leaders on the way out (I was going to write “outgoing” but it would have been confusing because in…
The Bushes, McCains, and the death of republican virtues
The death this year of John McCain, George H W Bush, and his wife Barbara has seen the revival of…
Sex for rent
According to feminist doctrine. Women are powerless, desireless and lack sexual agency. They retain zero autonomy over their bodies. And…
Fifty shades of red
Normally socialism, er, buggers you through high taxes, over-regulation and social control: A growing wave of sex-positive feminists are working to…
Flat White: a statement
Last week the Flat White website published a letter from a reader with an accompanying illustration. The post was removed immediately…
No, no, no Celinununu!
The Canadian megastar, Celine Dion, appears to have gone the full Trudeau—and I don’t just mean voting for Justin—by launching…
An incontrovertible truth (or two)
My address to the Climate Change Conference, Katowice, Poland, December 2 – 14, 2018: Special greetings to Al Gore Al,…
Australia should cop out of COP-24
Prime Minister Morrison should make no new commitments at the COP24 climate-fest this week in Poland. We do not trust…
The new Big Day Out
Hi mum, just got back from the Parliament House climate change protest. Protesting is just like Schoolies Week with lots…
Why the New Testament shouldn’t come with trigger warnings
Demands for the New Testament and Koran to contain alerts in the margins of those passages that have been used…
Tinker, tailor, soldier, Mr Harbourside Mansion?
George Papadopoulos has gone to gaol, it seems, for lying to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Scott Morrison is going into…
It’s time the Tattersalls president stood up for equal rights for men
Revolution is brewing in Brisbane’s venerable Tattersalls Club, but it’s not about letting in women. In fact, the revolution is…
Liberals note: conservative does not mean reactionary
Congratulations to Dan Andrews and Labor on a very strong result. Their ability to campaign effectively should never be underestimated…
Your social credit has been declined
I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but…
Apocalypse not
I have read that Pope Francis believes that climate change is such a big danger to the planet that it could turn…
Derryn Hinch’s public sex offenders register would be outrageous
In the wake of last weekend’s Victorian State election, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (probably with four shiny Upper House seats)…
After Victoria, Liberals still have the values and the ideas to win
Another Victorian election, and another Liberal loss, leaving the state with a financially profligate and socially radical government in near…
Ten reasons why Imran Khan’s theology is just not cricket
Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, caused controversy recently when he said in a speech celebrating the anniversary of…
“Progressive” ideas didn’t win Victoria, conservative ideas went missing
I don’t believe for one moment that Daniel Andrew’s stunning election victory means Australians are converts to “progressive” politics. Does…
The EU’s anti-science laws hit here
Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that he’d be passing up the United Nations’ Migration pact on the basis that a global…
Caution: gay people crossing
First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures…
Bernardo Bertolucci and fake news
The great Italian film director, Bernardo Bertolucci died on Monday. The bloke is hardly cold and the savages are already…
The surveillance state’s chameleons
In the USA they are collaborators with the “deep state”. In Australia, they are champions of privacy. Global tech companies…
The Victorian Liberals caused their own catastrophe
Now the dust of last Saturday’s electoral bloodbath in Victoria is starting to settle, it’s time for some sober reflection. …