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Tampon tax cut won’t stop votes flowing from Coalition
Treasurer Scott Morrison has bowed to the agitation of vocal feminists and the likes of GetUp! and is dropping GST…
It’s not hate when you’re attacking white people?
In not so breaking news, Newspaper of Record, AKA The New York Times, has been in a tiny spot of…
Big government still a big burden
Australian taxpayers are struggling to carry the burden of ever-expanding government spending. Before to the Whitlam government of 1972-75, total…
After euthanasia, then what?
Peter van Onselen was right when he wrote in The Weekend Australian recently that there is an even more significant…
Gender madness has lost the plot
Where are all the adults? Who is going to stand up to all this gender madness and say, “enough is…
John Winston and Winston’s Kiwi komedy kapers
The reaction of the New Zealand government to a speech given by our cricket-tragic ex-prime minister, John Howard to the…
Dumb and dumber
The venerable and much respected American columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer famously noted that to understand US politics you have…
No enthusiasm for enthusiastic consent reforms
Like most people watching the I am that girl story on Four Corners a few months ago I felt enormous sympathy for…
Going the full Kafka on free speech
It was Franz Kafka—the famous twentieth-century German writer—who once said, “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of…
How Lauren Southern exposes a double standard
Activist reporter Lauren Southern who is currently touring Australia with popular alt-media philosopher Stefan Molyneux, was warned by police not…
The kids aren’t all left
Last week Elin Ersson, a 21-year-old Swedish student, halted the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden by refusing…
Politicians can’t keep ignoring violence by women
When news headlines keep underlining a narrative to be false, we have a problem. When politicians are too afraid to…
Is Alan Joyce reprogramming your mind?
When I’m flying on one of those so-last-century planes that doesn’t have a screen mounted in the seat in front…
There’s still time to avoid Coalition carnage
If you want to know why the government is in deep trouble after Super Saturday, go no further than the…
The case against public sector affirmative action
Affirmative action is perhaps one of the more polarising phrases to enter our political lexicon in the last few years, which…
How’s that dissing the del-cons going?
So we’re now well into year three of the Team Turnbull Labor Lite experiment as Malcolm Turnbull – a big…
That’s a downer, guv’nor
Can social media damn your career when you’re already 66? It might just be so in the case of Alexander…
Turnbull’s time is up
The appalling Liberal Party performance in the five Super Saturday by-elections confirms what has long been obvious. This is that…
The only poll that matters stinks for the Turnbull Libs
The only poll that matters, we’re always told, is the one on election day. So we must regard yesterday’s ballots…
Conservatism in the age of Twitter
As a follow up to my earlier Spectator piece I thought it would be helpful to analyse the state of…
Gladys, do it for the dishlickers
When the New South Wales government backtracked on its plans to introduce a greyhound racing ban, most people were dismayed…
Government marketing a big buck bungle
Another week goes by and we again see state and federal governments squandering our money on embarrassing and harebrained ventures,…
Why our pissant political class can’t do populism properly
For political tragics, the western world has been a marvel over the past five years. A popular groundswell demanding self-determination…
Super Saturday: a tossers’ picnic
When it comes to elections, bookies are perhaps an even better form guide than the plethora of public and private…
The ABC threatens media diversity, not Fairfax/Nine
Yesterday Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment announced that they will merge, forming a media organisation worth $4.2 billion. The new…
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