In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Fairfax, Folau and FitzSimons
The Fairfax papers has become so strident in their LGBTIQ advocacy that they cannot tolerate anyone having a view other…
Since when has the taxman ever been a friend?
It is curious that Australians can be so apathetic about high taxation. Being still in the final stages of the…
‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello. Wot’s this ‘ere ‘ate crime going on, then?
Have no fear. The good old British bobby’s here. Meanwhile, London’s Daily Telegraph reports: While both London and New York have…
Illegal immigration fuels the new American civil war
Much of the anti-Trump media and their echoes in Australia must believe people are fools, given their propensity for misleading…
Bursting Di Natale’s slackernomics thought bubble
Universal Basic Income, a social welfare system where every citizen is unconditionally entitled to receive a fixed amount of money…
The Uber confessional
If you ever wondered why the Catholic Church guards the sanctity of the confessional so zealously than you need look…
China, red in tooth and claw
One of the photographs in Clive Hamilton’s ground-breaking expose ‘Silent Invasion China’s influence in Australia is of ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian…
Malcolm Turnbull is right on one thing
A stopped clock is right twice a day. Malcolm Turnbull? Well, he had some very good things to say about…
Julia Gillard’s gender facepalm
Julia Gillard has said she played the gender card all wrong. Good news, you may think? Most intelligent, cognisant adults…
Universities need charters of intellectual freedom
The latest politically correct madness at the University of Sydney — gender, race, sexuality, and class background quotas at the nation’s…
What crisis of conservatism?
Last month I attended The Australian’s ‘Big Voices on Big Issues’ panel discussion in Melbourne. Senior columnists Janet Albrechtson and…
Stand by for the Cultural Revolution 2.0
To the left, a slippery slope is not a logical device, it’s their business model. Just in from (where else?)…
To the promised land
It’s fifty years since Martin Luther King Jnr stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and received…
Their ABC’s privilege propaganda pratfalls
Last week, the ABC has decided to close down its Facebook page for its children channel ABC Me, after it…
Do Trump’s gut feelings beat the tenets of the left?
One has to admire Donald Trump’s gall. Against the best economic advice that the experts could give, he went and…
Do ice cream sales increase shark attacks?
Labor MP Andrew Leigh’s study on data around effective company tax rates and employment shows incomplete analysis that mistakes correlation for…
Diversity is not a strength
Possibly the greatest myth propagated by modern Western culture is that diversity is an essential ingredient for a successfully-integrated, progressive…
Why borders exist – and matter
No matter how much I try I can’t get my head around the common leftist (and libertarian) delusion that national…
Their ABC’s anti-religious hypocrisy
It’s a bit rich for Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, having spent the previous twelve months conducting a special ‘investigation’…
Is it Monash or Marxist University?
Monash University, the first Australian university to introduce trigger warnings, appropriately begins their “#CHANGEIT” advertising campaign by declaring “SOME OF…
Want to fix big government? Ban public sector workers from voting
The American revolutionaries claimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny”. In other words, taxing people, while denying them the vote,…
What colour is your Jesus?
It’s that time of the year again (Christmas or Easter) for someone out there to come out and say something…
The cricket crybabies have won
Now that the crybabies have won what are we to do? Steve Smith cried on national television and so did…
Plain packaging: fraud, farce and failure
The latest investigation by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission reveals that plain packaging laws, introduced in late 2012 and designed to make…
Official: it’s racist to care about black kids being abused
What identity politics hath wrought: Sunrise is under investigation by the broadcasting watchdog over a segment on Aboriginal families that was…