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Wikileaks, technology and the end of privacy
I’m neither an IT expert nor an intelligence insider (12 years ago when I was publishing the “Good News from…
Let’s have a day for middle-aged white men
So International Women’s Day (aka the ABC’s male presenters’ RDO) has come and gone. Feminists and social media mavens have…
Pauline Hanson isn’t ripping off Queensland. Canberra’s ripping off the West
The accusation by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that Pauline Hanson is trying to rip $1.6 billion from her home state to send to…
A bitter pils to swallow
The Courier Mail reported Monday “One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson is set to embark on another venture, putting her name…
Wellness warriors and the right to be a bloody idiot
Fringe health and well-being guru David “Avocado” Wolfe is coming to Australia and surprise, surprise there are two separate Change.org…
Pedestrian signals, pedestrian thinking
Today it was revealed by the Herald Sun that the Committee of Melbourne in conjunction with VicRoads are installing 10…
March too much (for science)
Just days after more than 300 US scientists petitioned President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency (February…
How the left have barred the way for economic reform
Judging by the despondent state of most Australian economists there’s little prospect coming years will generate much more than continued…
There is no alternative?
How many readers believe that any political party in the democratic world can continue to win every single election for…
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Brace yourselves for a round of fake ANZAC speeches
Australians should prepare themselves for an avalanche of fake speeches from our political class as the 75th anniversary of the…
Want to lift the standing of the Liberal Party? Hit Labor
After the last couple of weeks, a lot of us are left wondering what are Liberals to do? How about…
Jesus is Lord? Prove it, or we’ll do you for misleading advertising
Jesus once said that the Pharisees – the self-righteous cultural gatekeepers of his day who looked down on everyone else…
Would they rather invite ISIS in for scones and tea? Aunty’s latest
Malcolm Turnbull is best known for ill-considered waffle, but to the ABC his language is too harsh. Way too harsh.…
But science! Greens, GMO and ‘alternative facts’
Last Sunday a post on The Greens (WA) Facebook page took umbrage at Gary Adshead’s article in the Sunday Times…
Blowing smoke: Nanny’s crusade against vaping
There are few things governments enjoy more than protecting the commoners from themselves. It’s the reason why they’re happy to…
Even a broad church needs walls
Whatever internal troubles Malcolm Turnbull and the federal coalition were experiencing, it’s fair to say that Tuesday’s release of the…
Clinton email tactics hit Queensland
When you have a vested interest to hide and skeletons in the closet, using your own private email account and…
It’s not the just Liberals. It’s the political class
It is certainly convenient and natural for media and political insiders to focus on the personal conflict between Abbott and…
Tony Abbott must return
If the country is to be saved from impending disaster, Tony Abbott, like General MacArthur must return. (This will probably be…
18c: they just don’t get it
The failure by the Coalition-dominated parliamentary review to recommend changes to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is another sign…
WA votes amid a tax and spend addiction
The Western Australian state election is looming around the corner with almost two weeks until the state government is reshuffled…
Fake news meets 18c
Earlier this month Professor Andrew Jakubowitz of the taxpayer-created Cyber Racism and Community Resilience Research Group attempted to debunk a…
Hey guys, check out David Morrison’s latest
He’s become the gift which keeps giving, though, like a spinster aunt’s annual Christmas socks and hankies, it’s a gift…
Chicken Little on workplace relations — and plain old chicken
There’s been more chicken than Colonel Sanders himself could handle in Canberra this week, as the debate about Sunday penalty rates…
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