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

In which their ABC outdoes itself

18 March 2018 6:58 pm

On Friday Fairfax media — Fairfax media, mind you, not The Australian — reported: ABC journalists should focus more on…

Caring and sharing – and spending

18 March 2018 1:45 pm

It’s official – the “conservative” Coalition government has now accumulated more government debt in five years in office than its…

What’s a little cannibalism between leftie friends?

16 March 2018 4:23 pm

Richard Dawkins was recently described in Breitbart as a ‘professional atheist’. The epithet was added in a news article that…

Forrest move shows markets, not governments, solving energy crisis

16 March 2018 3:03 pm

Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s plan to ship gas to the east coast from Western Australia shows that the market trumps government…

But Yassmin says it’s racist…

16 March 2018 11:56 am

Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has asked his department to investigate whether white South African farmers can be accepted…

#AllLivesMatter – white lives too

16 March 2018 7:35 am

Cyril Ramaphosa, the new President of South Africa, has decided that it’s time to take out the trash. The poor…

Time to put kids first and politics second

15 March 2018 8:35 pm

On Wednesday, Sunrise featured a segment that included two guests and a presenter advocating for the ban on the adoption…

The girl with the pearl earring

15 March 2018 7:08 pm

You can take a woman out of a grievance, but you can’t take a grievance out of a woman. The…

Liberals, Nationals and Australian Conservatives

15 March 2018 5:26 pm

It’s a sad day when one is forced to disagree with the recent offerings of such sage Spectator scribes as…

But women are the weaker sex

15 March 2018 12:09 pm

Women are the weaker sex. That pointing this out may be considered controversial just goes to show the extent to…

The NSW Police’s bestial behaviour

15 March 2018 2:12 am

It’s often said that “A picture tells a thousand words.” Well, as Miranda Devine commented about the photo from the…

Indigenous leasing limbo

14 March 2018 7:21 pm

When picturing Indigenous land rights and economic development you typically conjure images of remote outstations, the challenges of developing infrastructure…

The stone-deaf politics of #MeToo

14 March 2018 4:02 pm

Immature argument thrives on one side voicing its opinion, and then shoving fingers in their ears while the other side…

If you don’t fight, you lose

14 March 2018 12:23 pm

A concatenation of events can sometimes resolve a conundrum, and that happened when, on Sunday, I was watching Sky News’s…

The war on LGBTI conservatives

14 March 2018 7:54 am

At the start of the academic year I turned up at the University of Sydney Camperdown/Darlington Campus carrying two corflutes. Printed…

Reverse racism and sexism? They don’t exist!

13 March 2018 7:28 pm

This sort of thinking is not new, but is now getting more and more widely accepted: So, if you discriminate…

Tariffs and trade: not that simple

13 March 2018 5:47 pm

The attention attracted by US import duties is important on many dimensions. Alan Kohler, in the process of suggesting that…

Transgender contenders

13 March 2018 1:15 pm

Sport, from the suburban backyard to the manicured turf of the MCG, has always been recognised as a defining aspect…

Speaking freely on China

13 March 2018 7:54 am

Last November, Australian academic Clive Hamilton made headlines around the world when news broke that publisher Allen & Unwin had…

Australian free trade must trump protectionism

12 March 2018 6:40 pm

With the Trump administration pledging to impose tariffs on aluminium and steel imports to the United States, the spectre of…

#MeToo, U2?

12 March 2018 3:22 pm

As Glenn Reynolds likes to ask, why are lef-wing institutions such cesspools of sexism and abuse: The anti-poverty campaign co-founded by Bono is…

What’s Left to like at the ABC?

12 March 2018 10:55 am

I was doing some research on an article for what I actually like at the ABC—I think it might have…

The Benedict option revisited

9 March 2018 1:13 pm

Given a year has passed since the New York publication of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option, in March 2017, and…

The Victorian Liberals wake-up call

9 March 2018 6:55 am

Yesterday’s Newspoll, showing the Victoria’s Labor government of left-winger Daniel Andrews has an election-winning lead of 52-48 two-party preferred, was…

The NAPLAN nervous ninnies

8 March 2018 3:26 pm

NAPLAN results are out and high gain schools are receiving their just recognition. Yet, critics are calling for a review…