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‘E-safety’: the new thought police
Give an inch and they’ll take a mile – it is fair to say Australians are waking up to the…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E12: Are you getting ripped off at the supermarket? Rebecca Weisser, Stuart Ballantyne & Nick Hossack
The only thing worse than living through a cost of living crisis is being ripped off. Australians are looking at…
Is there a plot afoot to get rid of Albo?
Speculation, of course, but Albanese is either uncommonly talented in the art of self-destruction, or Labor is getting ready to…
Record business collapses… I am not surprised
This is not the first time Australians have abandoned their dreams
Men: locked up without trial
This is an experienced criminal lawyer talking about the men, the increasing proportion of our prison population, who find themselves…
What’s mined is yours
If you thought you understood the seemingly endless line of new Indigenous terminology, two more were recently coined by the…
Australia’s global advocacy for the suppression of free speech
The Australian government has recently announced its plan to rejuvenate its contentious ‘misinformation and disinformation’ legislation, which had been shelved…
The Covid vaccine is dead! Long live the Covid vaccine…?!
Did you know that four years after the Great Covid Pandemonium erupted, vaccine mandates are still being enforced in the…
Energy fog – trust your lying eyes
Attending an Anzac Day service, I only noticed the fog as it lifted and the sun emerged. In a similar…
The heir of Orwell
It took 1,084,170 words for JK Rowling to tell the story of Harry Potter. Spanning seven books and a decade,…
Oh no, don’t meme me!
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is terrified of memes. Specifically, Winnie-the-Pooh. Since July 2017, the harmless bear has…
How not to play warcraft
The Australian Labor Party has drifted a long way from its roots and is now more about the welfare of…
Other options for the economy?
In the UK, inflation figures were stated to have been disappointing, with CPI falling down from 3.4 per cent to 3.2 instead…
The Liberals, coal, and nuclear power
In a famous 1963 speech, US civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. said: ‘I have a dream that my…
The war on misinformation is a sham
Anthony Albanese claims to be fighting a war on so-called ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. He recently exclaimed that ‘Australians want misinformation…
Net Zero by 2050: fantasy, or eco-imperial impoverishment?
As the years pass since the 2015 Paris climate conference made Net Zero by 2050 the global elite’s Holy Grail,…
Double Shot S2E10 The fight against digital censorship rages in Australia – Augusto Zimmermann, Sen Malcolm Roberts & John Storey
If Australia doesn’t stop the e-Safety Commissioner (or should that be, the e-Stasi Commissar?) from attempting to control the flow…
ANZAC Day: recognising the dangers our soldiers face in times of no conflict
On Anzac Day it is important we recognise the sacrifices made by those who have served Australia and New Zealand’s…
Australia needs to assess security relations with Turkey
As we commemorate Anzac Day, and the fallen Australian soldiers who fought and lost their lives at Gallipoli, now more than ever…
Labor’s Middle East folly
Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s call to her Tehran counterpart urging Iran to promote stability in the Middle East is indicative…
Port Macquarie educator fired during Covid slams medical authoritarianism
Mandate victim, Kassi Gilmour, has slammed medical authoritarianism. The former New South Wales school teacher was fired for refusing to comply with public health…
Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs
Fearless sons and daughters of Anzacs, today we commemorate the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at…
A National Conservative critique of the recent ‘The Road Ahead’ conference in Fremantle
Perhaps no other city makes one recall as fondly the spirit of the 1980s in Australia as Fremantle. It was…
Australia does not need a policeman for a police state
When the Labor Party won the federal election off a tired, limping, and lost Morrison Liberal Party – we knew…
Climate psychology
Climate change is the gift that keeps on giving. We are familiar with the havoc it is supposedly wreaking on…
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