In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
‘Who’ matters
Perhaps the only positive to come from the Israel-Hamas war and its upheavals is that it has opened up space for an…
Brewing truth: climate doomsayers’ cooked-up coffee crisis
Every day, people across the world wake up to news about climate change affecting their lives. With the seeming randomness…
Bowen’s homemade recipe for an energy debacle
Rewiring the nation won’t happen by rewriting history. Markets work best through light regulation and promoting competition. Government has a…
20 years since John Howard’s renewable energy policy
It is now just over 20 years since John Howard introduced a renewable energy policy which required wind/solar-generated electricity to…
Green Day: the end of punk rock
Green Day’s middle-aged, middle-finger to middle America shows the band known for political irreverence has become politically irrelevant. Once anti-establishment…
The real pandemic
We were told that Covid was a pandemic: and yet less than 1,000 died of Covid prior to the introduction…
Music and the well of human spirit
Amongst the huge volume of online viewing options that dominate our televisions these days, occasionally there are gems that speak…
Life’s too short to battle public health puritans – I’m over it
When I’m not compiling the Morning Double Shot email, or talking on the radio, my professional role is as a…
Clover Moore’s ‘Blak power’ New Year’s Eve fireworks (for kids?)
The ABC has been dragged from one end of social media to the other after the appallingly political and nauseatingly…
The haunting certainties of Australian Digital ID
Of what can we be certain regarding the two Digital ID Bills opened by our federal government to public comment…
King Charles vs Ayn Rand
Is it only the political movement of Climate Change in which we need to be wary of King Charles III,…
Cyclones are not evidence of a climate apocalypse
The damage from recent Cyclone Jasper has taken many, including the Bureau of Meteorology, by surprise. The failure to predict…
Dear Chris Bowen – a New Year’s letter
Stop enduring those night sweats, Mr Bowen … fear not! CO2 is safe. It’s welcome. I write to you openly…
Power on, livelihoods off
While some companies are set to gain millions of dollars, other individuals fear they will lose hundreds of thousands of…
Christianity in decline
It is platitudinal to claim that Christian religions in Australia are in decline. Indeed, for several years, Christianity has been…
Space junk
Like space junk in the stratosphere, the Western fiction-sphere is increasingly cluttered by a vast cloud of unfinished stories. This…
Bid to exclude Trump from 2024 primaries raises grave constitutional concerns
The 2024 presidential election is already proving to be a breeding ground for controversy, with states taking an audacious step…
Tesla’s Skynet moment
The news cycle dragged itself out of the Christmas hangover with headlines such as the Daily Mail’s: Tesla robot ATTACKS an…
Michelle 2024?
David Axelrod is America’s smartest political strategist on the left. He has an impressive track record in backing longshots who…
A teetotal Parliament House?
Christmas seems a good time to bring up alcohol. Having recently moved to Manly, I am now living near the…
Barossa ban risks turning Australia into a trade pariah
Australia has a hard-won reputation as a reliable trading partner throughout our region, but without serious red tape reduction, and…
The government’s censorship agenda is out in the open
The federal government has previously maintained that its proposed misinformation laws would not allow the government to censor the internet.…
It’s the narrative, stupid!
The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the ‘power of a narrative’. The mass of people caught up in…
The energy Grinch
Just before Christmas, the CSIRO presented the government with an analysis in support of their beliefs that wind and solar…
Failing Israel in its darkest hour
At 6.29 am on October 7, nearly 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded the State of Israel unleashing one of the most…