In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Grounded realities
‘Social democratic parties have a problem selling opportunity and hope, while conservatives easily sell fear and trepidation’. I am paraphrasing…
Australian troops fear Afghan lawsuits
Thousands of Australian military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of being dragged through the courts…
Time to call out misandry in the media
To believe that misandry is any better than misogyny is to have no concept of equality. So, who wants to…
From a home of the enlightenment to one of its greatest products
There are few better places in the world for a Scotsman to spend to spend a three-month Sabbatical than Sydney.…
A quick quiz you can’t win
Who are these people? Without giving the quiz game away, here are some characteristics of people who belong to a…
Judge Brett Kavanaugh v Your ABC
If you thought American politics was a passionate and emotive affair, President Trump’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the United…
I’m transgender – and proudly conservative
I’m a transwoman, and this is my #walkaway story. I grew up in a conservative Catholic, Labor-voting family in South-Western…
“A curfew for men”, you say? A few questions…
Pretty much the entire population in Australia has had enough of the man bashing. They’ve had enough of the boiling…
Free speech Kiwi roadkill
It was frighteningly authoritarian when the Mayor of Auckland and former Kiwi Labour leader, Phil Goff, decreed by tweet on…
Fine dining with Lettuce and Lavender
Lettuce and Lavender wanted their friends to see their new home nestled amongst the tall gums at the base of…
Edmund Burke down under
Accepting the Edmund Burke Award in November 2016, John Howard paid homage to the eighteenth century Anglo-Irish statesman, remarking that…
Build our boys, guard our girls
As a high school youth pastor, I recently sat my boys down and we discussed Christian teaching as it related…
Gun lore
I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…
The big British babies bawling about Trump – and tantrum tyranny
It seems that one of the things which people on the left fear most is being taken over by some…
Who defends our defenders?
Last week Defence admitted former Lt Colonel Karel Dubsky was an innocent victim of the Jedi Council witchhunt that terminated…
The Australia Institute snubs the coal, hard facts
Advocacy is core business for think tanks, but when does advocacy become propaganda? When the think tank is the grandly…
How the ABC’s facile feminists boost the baser instincts
One of Australia’s least funny comedians, Tom Ballard, is at it again. No, not of being accused of sexual assault—a…
Gatecrashing the funeral for selfies
On June 18, Clementine Ford drip-fed some more man-hating nonsense to her brainwashed minions in an article for Fairfax Media. Done and…
Excuse me, but this consent strategy is bonkers
Drum roll… NSW’s new Sexual Assault Strategy has been released. Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Minister Pru Goward…
Fake news and appointing judges
I have made a point of reading dozens and dozens of different mainstream media accounts of the recent retirement of…
What’s Paris still worth?
In 1593 Henry of Navarre, a Protestant prince turned Catholic to win the French crown, supposedly remarked, “Paris is well…
Beware of Hamas hubba-hubba
Would you like to do some internet dating with Hamas? Associated Press has the story: The Israeli military said Tuesday it…
Their ABC “the most trusted news source”? Here’s a theory
It was Abraham Lincoln who said, ‘You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of…
Leave the high life of Canberra? Decentralisation push exposes bureaucratic hypocrisy
For just over a century, the public service has been building capital city monoliths to centralise power, decision-making and policy…
Hey, dudes, back off: a defence of millennials
I fully appreciate that millennials – “cossetted, pampered and spoiled” – deserve a good touch up. After all, I am…