In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Will we vote now before the party room?
Malcolm Turnbull rolled the dice. He won — but only just. The ambush worked — but only just. Paul Keating, of course,…
The #MeToo bombshell we didn’t see coming
Question: if life is as simple as black and white, men are oppressors, women are victims, wouldn’t all of life’s…
Malcolm, you promised… so go
Malcolm Turnbull’s backing off trying to bully his party into a NEGative plan has given the Liberals a golden opportunity…
Abbott’s a better option than Dutton, but…
As Malcolm Turnbull limps into the second week of a tumultuous parliamentary sitting, his leadership is under threat whether he…
Young or old, too many Liberal backbenchers won’t stand for principle
I knew things were bad with the federal Liberal Party but I didn’t know things were this bad. You see…
Only certain outrage makes the Letters to the Editor
There are some words and phrases that are better left unsaid and newbie Senator Fraser Anning has now probably realised…
Sino sexbot subversion? It’s coming…
China is looking to dominate the American market in yet another sector: WMDOLL, based in China’s southeastern Guangdong province, develop AI-powered…
The real reason for the Fraser Anning anger
When Australia’s population was about to pass 25 million the Commonwealth announced that the person would most probably a migrant…
Don’t say Cory was right after all?
Tom Raue, the Greens candidate for Summer Hill in NSW, has recently been in the news for publishing two separate…
The Australian Conservatives: not dead yet
Like Cory Bernardi, I was once in the Liberal Party, which under Robert Menzies was the natural home for conservatives.…
Multiculturalism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be
You are not alone if you are worried about our governments’ obsession with multiculturalism. Most people only know it as…
We have an euphemism problem on our streets
Modern law enforcement seems to be increasingly as much about policing language as policing crime. Some cynics might say more…
It worked so well yesterday, so…
Well, whaddya know! It worked so well yesterday that the Greens have come back for an encore performance. Forget about…
Anyone want to play Gender Jenga?
I was watching my kids and their friends play Jenga recently – you know the game where you have a…
Katter’s Ottoman Empire Party?
Maverick MP Bob Katter has previously blasted any suggestion he could be a dual Lebanese citizen by descent, declaring no…
Never miss an opportunity
“We, like, hate racism, right, so, like give us money?.” You guessed it. It’s the Greens: But wait. There’s more:…
Clementine Ford and the illogical excuse of misogyny
We may have all come to expect crazed fury and blatant bias from far left exhibitionist feminist activist Clementine Ford…
Why’s a libertarian backing state-sanctioned suicide?
This week, the Senate is considering giving a blank cheque to both the ACT and Northern Territory to introduce laws…
Facebook is not our friend
Facebook’s drive towards absolute transparency – of its users’ information, of course, not of Facebook itself – continues apace: Anyone who…
Antifa are the real fascists
The West has a plague of homegrown terrorists putting Islamic extremists to shame with their frequency and ferocity of attacks:…
Junk the Kings Cross injecting room
In Sydney’s Kings Cross, overdoses are almost non-existent, needles have vanished, and patient visits are the lowest they’ve ever been.…
How to guarantee the elderly and ill are seen as burdens
Former Senator Amanda Vanstone used her Fairfax column recently to advocate for assisted suicide and euthanasia legislation. We should note former…
All the news that fits the agenda
Three stories over the past few days should have been huge. Instead, two of them made just a passing blip…
Time to put free speech in the Constitution
I want your help. I want your help to give we the people the most important power there is, one that…
Euthanasia laws: inherently unsafe
A doctor was called to the bedside of a patient with lung cancer because she was in pain. At that…