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

The hangover after the ball

16 June 2017 2:18 pm

It was Paul Keating who said that if you needed a friend in Canberra you should get a dog. Malcolm…

High tax: the pillar of what civilisation?

16 June 2017 11:44 am

“Progressive” think tank Per Capita recently released the results of their annual tax survey. It turns out that 51.5 per…

Safe school days

16 June 2017 7:29 am

Once upon a time, schools were for teaching things like reading, and writing, and arithmetic. Today, schools teach reading, writing,…

Goodbye to all that

15 June 2017 8:59 pm

The Age made a song and dance today about the departure of their political editor Michael Gordon. And rightly, too.…

Elder abuse: it’s real

15 June 2017 6:50 pm

Today, June 15, is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Timed to coincide with this international day, the Australian Law Reform…

Trumpism, post-Trump

15 June 2017 4:28 pm

BOSTON, UNITED STATES — Professor David Flint made a statement in the last print issue which I’d like to tease…

Manus: a ten point plan to recover our honour, our borders and our country

15 June 2017 2:16 pm

The Turnbull government has gone to water over the claim by about 1900 Manus Island detainees. It could have and…

No Hils, you’re no Wonder Woman

15 June 2017 11:04 am

Hillary Clinton has learned nothing from losing the election. She’s still living life in one of two modes. She’s either…

Values matter in politics

15 June 2017 7:28 am

One statistic is essential to understanding the shock British election result: the turnout by people aged 18 to 24. Since 1992 only…

Why just tinker with refugee rorts?

14 June 2017 12:05 pm

This week Canberra is buzzing. It’s the last sitting fortnight before the long winter break, the week when important bits…

St Pauls can do better…

14 June 2017 7:06 am

I usually leave the sincere and polite explanations of why Daisy Cousens is confused to the wonderfully articulate Michael Davis.…

Somebody please show feminists the glass trapdoor

13 June 2017 4:31 pm

I’ve heard it all now. Literally, all. Moaning about the “glass ceiling” reached deafening dizzy heights after Clinton’s collapse. Today…

When racism’s not racism

13 June 2017 2:02 pm

Excuse me. I always though Wonder Woman came from the Amazon island of Themyscira. Apparently not. She’s Jewish. Israeli. And…

Australian values: are we all on the same page?

13 June 2017 12:17 pm

This week, the federal government will disclose its planned changes to Australian citizenship. The legislation being presented to parliament will…

Go home, Nanny, you’re drunk

13 June 2017 6:34 am

Thomas Jefferson in 1776, said ‘We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that…

Emmanuel Macron, the new Barack Obama

12 June 2017 9:10 pm

Eleven years ago, the US media started to produce glowing, servile reports about the junior senator from Illinois named Barack…

Thirteen reasons Jeremy Corbyn is a scumbag and a moral midget

12 June 2017 5:45 pm

In little less than a year, Jeremy Corbyn went from a -40 per cent net favourability rating against Theresa May’s…

Saudi Arabia: people in glasshouses shouldn’t throw grenades

12 June 2017 2:22 pm

A coalition of Arab nations lead by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have cut their ties with Qatar over the latter state’s…

The war on St Pauls is a war on the West

12 June 2017 9:16 am

In a move that will surprise no one, the leftist media has once more targeted, cornered, and attacked an elite institution…

Greenpeace: criminal rabble or charity?

11 June 2017 2:53 pm

Why does a “charity” that promotes criminal behaviour still enjoy tax-deductible status? Early on May 29, Greenpeace activists illegally trespassed…

Islamist broken windows

11 June 2017 7:42 am

When Rudolph Giuliani was mayor of New York City, he took an approach to criminology called “Broken Windows”, generating respect…

Euthanasia: toxic messages feeding fear

10 June 2017 4:51 pm

I wrote recently about a play that ran in Melbourne called The Magnolia Tree and how the notion of being…

May made Malcolm’s mistakes

10 June 2017 1:54 pm

Prime Minister May’s election campaign succeeded in the near impossible through turning a projected 100 plus seat majority into minority…

Honey Badgers make me cringe

10 June 2017 8:49 am

I want to believe. I really, really do. I want to believe that all this post-conservative ‘New Right’ stuff. I…

Malcolm and May: separated at birth?

9 June 2017 12:09 pm

July 2, 2016. Stable government. Fourteen seats lost. A majority of one. June 8, 2017. Strong, stable leadership in the…