In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
What makes a state?
The New York Post’s recent write-up on the budget allocations of the Palestinian Authority makes for disturbing if not wholly…
Why the Andrews euthanasia bill is all about suicide
It’s difficult to talk about suicide. There won’t be a person reading this who hasn’t been touched by a suicide…
Wage inequality: us vs the bureaucrats
Note to Labour: One reason why the income gap widens in times of slow economic growth, I suggest, is surely…
Why January 26 matters
Symbolism and imagery are important for a nation. They are important as focal points where our history vividly comes to…
Would another Arab state be any different?
In the latest act of rank hypocrisy from Labor, this weekend the NSW and Queensland branches of the Labor Party…
The future of learning and the independent scholar
When the British historian, Christopher Dawson, received the Christian Culture Award in 1951 from a Canadian university, he called his…
No, Premier, we will not get out of the way
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has formally accepted the recommendations of the Ministerial Advisory Panel that he set up in December…
Inside the Hillary book
Exciting news for fans of the president who never was, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yep. The inevitable has happened. She’s got…
Importing China’s poison
There is an engineering company in Brisbane with about 30 employees which used to do a lot of work in…
Everyone hates political correctness: official
A swag of media outlets have run a yarn along the lines “Older Australians say political correctness is running society”…
I’m an atheist and against euthanasia
Some prominent Australians who favour a change in the law on assisted dying seem so anxious to implement it that…
No, men are not more of a threat than terrorists
When does a “comment” piece stop being comment and become a short work of fiction? The answer lies in the…
The (new) God Delusion
Richard Dawkins has discovered that it’s trendy to be an atheist – but only if you are an exclusively Christian…
Gillian Triggs: the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
In today’s Australian Chris Kenny has a wholly accurate piece on Gillian Triggs. Kenny sets out the ways in which Triggs…
A brown coal plan that’s worse than Finkel?
The Victorian Government’s new Statement on Future Uses of Brown Coal, released earlier this month, is further proof that there…
Canavan will be missed
LNP Senator Matt Canavan stood down from his position as resources minister this evening while issues over his citizenship are…
Class war breaks outs
Bill Shorten has declared to the Melbourne Institute and later, on Insiders that Australia had a ‘two class’ tax system…
Who the hell were they polling?
Readers should take this morning’s Newspoll from The Australian, ‘Turnbull beats Abbott on leadership and values’, with a pinch of…
The stupidest thing the federal government does
This is a tale of idiocy, full of facts and foreboding, signifying that the end times must be surely upon…
The euthanasia op-ed the papers wouldn’t run
Compassion for people at the end of life is a fundamental reflection of our humanity. We care. It’s what people…
When did the war on men blight all sides of politics?
When did being a “mediocre white man” become a crime in Australia? When did it become the acceptable butt of…
The Cory Show
Senator Cory Bernardi is blitzkrieging the east coast at the moment, holding a series of meetings and interviews. I caught…
Ordure in the House
We’re about to be gifted, courtesy of ‘Our ABC’ a new series hosted by Annabel Crabbe, she of the ‘take…
Since when was democracy a right wing thing?
Does it strike anyone else as ironic that the push to reform the preselection process of candidates and give grassroots…
How many safeguards are needed to make assisted suicide safe?
The Final Report of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on ‘Assisted Dying’ set up by Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews late in…
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Net zero bandwagon’s wheels are wobbling
As Bowen heads off to another pointless Cop gabfest
Trigger warning: common sense outbreak at UN!
United Nations calls out trans threat to women’s sports
