In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
A bank inquiry: what happens if the parliament and executive clash?
Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has received advice from the Clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, that the Senate and House of Representatives…
Richer, safer, healthier, vacuous, lost and depraved
Sixteen years or so too late, but I’m presently inhaling Peter Hitchens’s The Abolition of Britain. Though a diehard Hitchensonian…
Free speech? Shut up and drink your hemlock!
When Socrates was tried and executed by his fellow Athenians, his speech was found to be outside the acceptable realm…
Safe Schools’ sleazy Trojan horse
The Australian’s latest major Safe Schools revelations have exposed the farce of Pamela Blackman’s new sexual health curriculum Transmission. It hijacks…
Shorten’s mandate theory falls short
One thing about close election results is that they give rise to a lot of waffle about mandates. The Labor…
What is behind the left’s sympathy for Islamist right?
In 2015 Nick Cohen announced his ‘resignation‘ from the left in protest at its open support for the Islamist extreme-right.…
What do we want? Less free speech!
For years comedians across America have been lamenting the suffocating political correctness sweeping their country. This growing aversion “offensive” views,…
Time for business to remember its values and cut the Kofi breaks
Back in the days when Kofi Anan possessed the biggest blue helmet of them all as UN Secretary General, a…
Good governance goes to the dogs with Baird’s barking mad policy
New South Wales Premier Mike Baird appears to be emulating characters from American history with his barking mad bill banning…
Indigenous disadvantage: time for a royal commission into why good intentions achieve so little?
It might well be Chrenkoff’s First Law of Welfare that all the poverty- and disadvantage-reducing government programs are most successful…
The plight of the middle class white girl
When the noxious Left are in full self-righteous flight, the societal archetype they show the most contempt for is the…
The real Gosford Anglican Church outrage
None of us are wanting for a reason to abhor Nick Folkes’s stunt at the Gosford Anglican Church. It was…
Toxic masculinity, noxious lies
It’s one of the most pervasive and dangerous myths propagated by radical feminism: that our culture of ‘toxic masculinity’ has…
Waleed Aly’s indigenous deaths in custody myth
Waleed Aly has again taken to his favourite medium – the smug rant – ignoring facts to push a popular…
Annastacia Palaszczuk and the latest city-country divide
Nothing reveals the clear divide between inner city and regional Queensland than the long, tumultuous history of land clearing. The…
Those upper house blues
Here’s a question for all you readers. Of course I don’t expect anyone who’s gone through an Australian high school…
Lindt II: Death by multiculturalism
Ideas about nations matter – especially when those ideas shape the attitudes and actions of those in positions of authority.…
The Lindt siege: our lives are in the best of hands
In early December, Sydneysiders and Australians in general will remember the second anniversary of the deadly Lindt chocolate café siege.…
The biggest rort of them all
A stopped clock is … well, you know the rest. And so it was with Buzzfeed yesterday when the Australian…
#blackfathersmatter
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is recovering from brutal rioting. The unrest grew out of protests over the death of Sylville K. Smith,…
Finally, Shorten stumbles
When Malcolm Turnbull finished the election with all the grace of Shaunae Miller’s win in the women’s 400 metre final in…
If business shuts the door to debate the fringe will flourish
Among the many losers of the 2016 election, big business is near the top of the list, which might teach…
The anarchist bookstore and the Lodge: a parable
Walking past the Newtown Anarchist’s Club/Bookstore, I noticed their shopfront window was smashed. “Fitting”, I thought, before walking on. But…
The Party of Freedom and the Gosford Anglicans: pity both sides can’t lose
Yesterday, a group of yobbos known as the Party for Freedom staged a noisy anti-Islamic protest during the Sunday mass…
Captain Catholic’s confession
Catholicism can be ridiculously simple. Confess your sins in a spirit of true repentance and — te absolvo — you…