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

How Queensland’s abortion laws deny conscientious objection

22 October 2018 12:44 pm

In new legislation are contained provisions that cut to the core of liberal democracy, Doctors in Queensland are now compelled…

The price a journo pays for shunning the sisterhood

22 October 2018 7:53 am

I read a great quote by Bono recently: “The less you know, the more you believe.” I don’t think any…

Tony, Malcolm and Wentworth: the terrible truth

21 October 2018 2:21 pm

Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull have both got what they wanted. Abbott wanted to damage the party he was angry…

The Wentworth defeat has many fathers, not just Malcolm Turnbull

21 October 2018 10:37 am

So it has come to pass. Wentworth has been lost by the Liberals with the biggest by-election swing against a…

The week in misandry

19 October 2018 2:59 pm

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

Before you vote for Kerryn Phelps in Wentworth…

19 October 2018 11:15 am

Step with me, if you will, through the mists of time; back to an era when there was a high-quality…

Liberals lead charge against parental choice

19 October 2018 9:05 am

Warnings that freedoms would be lost if same-sex marriage was passed were ridiculed every day during last year’s debate. Ten…

The Left can thank themselves for rising ‘strongman’ politics

18 October 2018 4:15 pm

A new report shows that a third of Australians are in favour of “strongman” leadership. That is authoritarian leadership. This…

Don’t say ABC reporting on the Wentworth shit-sheet has been selective?

18 October 2018 2:06 pm

Lawks-a-mussy me! Don’t say the ABC’s reporting on the Wentworth shit-sheet has been selective? Here’s what the workers’ soviet ferociously…

Of course it’s all about the money

18 October 2018 11:21 am

An undiplomatic incident in a Canberra restaurant? Enough to get those delicate maiden aunts from the ABC and Fairfax holding…

Queensland aborts conscience

18 October 2018 8:09 am

It is the best of times. At no other time in human history has there been less war or invasion,…

Religious freedom is not absolute – and neither are LGBTI rights

17 October 2018 8:30 pm

Last week in Australia the recommendations of the Ruddock Review into Religious Freedom were leaked, leading to media frenzy that…

Satan: an apology

17 October 2018 8:01 pm

We’ve been asked to pull a post out of respect for the privacy of “a non-theistic Satanist that participates in…

What’s wrong with “It’s ok to be white”?

17 October 2018 1:59 pm

Pauline Hanson has once again caused remarkable controversy by saying something entirely unremarkable. “It’s okay to be white.” Apparently, this…

Injun Liz Warren and echoes of Bolt

17 October 2018 10:19 am

If you’ve been following American politics in the last few days you’ll have read about Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren’s confrontation…

The other right: what’s wrong with the Political Compass

17 October 2018 7:54 am

There’s something wrong with the Political Compass. I was trying, earlier this year, to write an article about the fundamental…

The mental gymnastics of Queensland’s abortion bill

16 October 2018 8:36 pm

EXCLUSIVE The High Court has just finished hearing argument in two cases challenging Tasmanian and Victorian laws which prohibit protesting…

The right to bear kangaroos

16 October 2018 5:56 pm

A friend and a reader from the United States, Chuck, has sent me this informative chart and asked about the…

Our broken federation and its broken GST

16 October 2018 2:42 pm

The reignited debate about the distribution of GST revenue this month highlights some of the worst aspects of Australia’s damaged…

Could the Katter crew organise horizontal refreshment in a brothel?

16 October 2018 12:00 pm

Back in 1996, recently retired Ipswich city councillor Paul Tully outed his then fellow councillor Pauline Hanson as a racist…

I’m a person, not a person of color

16 October 2018 7:59 am

White women have had their heads on a dartboard since Donald Trump won the election in 2016. We’ve been accused…

Tasmania invades!

15 October 2018 8:11 pm

For decades they were the butt of jokes and derisory remarks for being the worst State in Australia in having…

Triggering Jeff Sparrow

15 October 2018 4:02 pm

Like his hero Leon Trotsky during the Russian revolution, contemporary Marxist ideologue Jeff Sparrow has got the irrits with the…

Hillary hits new heights of hypocrisy

15 October 2018 12:14 pm

In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Hillary Clinton was swift to come to her husband’s defence. She said that…

Democrats damned by the Curse of Tay-Tay

14 October 2018 5:49 pm

Last week, country-turned-pop diva Taylor Swift finally broke her famous (or infamous, depending on your point of view) silence on all things…