In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Milo vs Hillary: signs of strength
It is said that true strength is shown in how you dust yourself off after setbacks and keep going. Take…
Victoria’s euthanasia mission creep
Anyone looking at the experience in Canada since euthanasia and assisted suicide laws came into force last year, should be…
Send in the drones
On a crisp Canberra autumn morning last week scientists and technical experts from the CSIRO, the University of New South…
Will Europe fall to Putin’s grand design?
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. All the powers of Atlanticist Europe have entered…
Politicians need to listen on abortion laws
Occasionally a politician proposes something so mind-bogglingly extreme and dangerous that it’s hard to fully believe they’re actually being serious.…
The 18C fight: it’s bigger than you think
It has become a sort of trump card in debates over 18C for its defenders to ask its critics what…
The government goes after online shoppers
If there’s one thing government enjoys more than taking your money, it’s finding a convenient excuse to do it. With…
Let’s put people in charge of their own super
Imagine if your boss called you into their office to tell you they had decided who you could bank with.…
Daniel Andrews gender agenda and mythmaking
By now, I’m sure you would’ve heard the news that the Victorian Andrews government is backing a brand new “feminist…
What part of free speech doesn’t Liberty Victoria understand?
Liberty Victoria’s decision to reward Gillian Triggs with its annual Voltaire Award is a perfect example of the left’s perverse…
Fairfax: you’ll really miss us when we’re gone
Fairfax journalists are — gosh, how retro — out on strike for a week over job cuts. They’ve taken to…
Licensing our lives
Anyone who’s ever stepped out onto a crossing with the green light and come within a hair’s breadth of being…
Gonski 2.0 or Conski 2.0?
In a stunning political move, the government seized the Gonski high-ground yesterday by announcing Gonski 2.0, another review into how…
How a KGB man became the fascist’s friend
Since ‘fake-news’ is all the rage these days it seems only appropriate that there’s a strange law on the books…
Abbott slams “anti-men” policy, but why are other MPs silent?
Thank heavens for Tony Abbott. Did we ever think we’d be saying that? Questionable. On Monday he spoke out to…
Pope Francis’ flock and Islam’s wolves
The Holy Father’s been having a tough time lately. He recently gave a statement to reporters on the war against…
The tide turns against Daniel Andrews sexual revolution?
The Liberal Party of Victoria has been criticised in various quarters for being “Labor-lite”, for being silent on important issues,…
Failing Fairfax’s sad sneer squad slag the Friedman freedom-fest
There’s nothing like seeing an event that you personally witnessed, written up in the mainstream media to realise how inaccurate…
Donald Trump’s and Snoop Dogg’s cute cultural affinity
In case you missed it recently rapper Snoop Dogg dropped a music video featuring a caricature of President Trump depicted…
May Day and the noble worker, sure – but what about the bold entrepreneur?
It’s the first of May, and so I can’t help but remember the May Day marches of my Polish childhood;…
Goosey Lucy goes independent
Kenyan-born lawyer, now Family First Senator for South Australia Lucy Gichuhi was confirmed in her Senate seat after Labor decided…
The oddest British poll issue: Gaysexit
A make or break question has emerged in UK election fever over the past week. Is it school funding? No.…
Halal Certification Authority president: white Australian Christians lack compassion
Social media starlet Yassmin Abdel-Magied, she of “Islam is the most feminist religion” and more recently “Lest We Forget [insert…
Cultural relativism sees justice denied
A teenager who migrated from Afghanistan recently plead guilty to a series of sexual assaults in Surfer’s Paradise committed in…
“Buy Ethical” will only harm the world’s poorest
For the past four years, Baptist World Aid Australia have been releasing their annual Behind the Barcode report into the…