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

Anyone want to play Gender Jenga?

16 August 2018 1:05 pm

I was watching my kids and their friends play Jenga recently – you know the game where you have a…

Katter’s Ottoman Empire Party?

16 August 2018 8:29 am

Maverick MP Bob Katter has previously blasted any suggestion he could be a dual Lebanese citizen by descent, declaring no…

Never miss an opportunity

15 August 2018 4:42 pm

“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

15 August 2018 7:53 am

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?

14 August 2018 7:59 pm

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

14 August 2018 7:04 pm

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

14 August 2018 4:55 pm

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

14 August 2018 1:26 pm

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

14 August 2018 7:46 am

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

13 August 2018 6:55 pm

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

13 August 2018 3:00 pm

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

13 August 2018 11:17 am

A doctor was called to the bedside of a patient with lung cancer because she was in pain. At that…

What we can learn from tax cuts and Trump

13 August 2018 8:35 am

The Trump administration’s liberalisation of the United States economy has seen growth accelerate to four per cent for the second…

The Great Barrier Money Magnet

12 August 2018 4:22 pm

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has become a money magnet for those with green political agendas. The climax of this green…

Do we have an ADF gender dissembler?

12 August 2018 8:53 am

Forget about all the recent furore over the politically correct ‘They Day’ fiasco, where the approximately 10,000 staff of the…

Will climate change make you neck yourself?

11 August 2018 1:01 pm

To go with all the forecasts of floods, fires, pestilence and plague from climate catastrophists we have a new warning…

The renovation memory hole

10 August 2018 3:41 pm

Anyone hip enough to know inner-suburban Melbourne knows the Gatwick Hotel. It is (or was) that sleazy, abandoned, druggie flophouse…

Free speech on campus comes cost free – for Pirate Pete lefties

10 August 2018 12:12 pm

University campuses are supposed to be places of robust debate, places where a contest of ideas can be held with…

SHY’s victimhood card is declined

10 August 2018 7:48 am

After tearful displays and fighting talk on The Project and anywhere else that would give her a platform, Sarah Hanson-Young…

Alex Jones and the new social media censorship

9 August 2018 9:23 pm

In the wake of Alex Jones’ banning from Facebook, YouTube and Apple the outrage has been palpable. And that is…

Vaping: why the status quo is not an option

9 August 2018 4:56 pm

If you work in the city, or in one of our regional town centres, you’ve probably crossed paths with someone…

The Ruby Rose Batwoman PC Comics special

9 August 2018 12:30 pm

Forget about the Australian Defence Force getting rid of gender-neutral pronouns, or the inequity of transgender athletes competing in sporting…

The Victorian Liberal Punch and Judy preselection show

9 August 2018 7:35 am

Last week, the Financial Review highlighted how utterly underprepared the Liberal party is compared to Labor in contesting marginal seats.…

Blinkered self-publicist feminists aren’t helping violence

8 August 2018 7:46 am

Self-publicist feminists have been keeping themselves busy churning out their gender biased myths about violence. On Monday Tracey Spicer wrote…

Free speech now comes with security costs?

7 August 2018 6:07 pm

La Trobe University is encouraging censorious behaviour by charging special security fees for an event with commentator Bettina Arndt hosted…