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Medicare messing with Movember
It’s that time of year when some men are shaving off the moustaches and possibly beards they’ve grown during Movember…
Alan Jones: The folly of our Climate Change hoax
For years now I have been talking about the folly of this Climate Change hoax that sees us allegedly reducing…
Blackout Bowen wants taxpayers to ‘COP’ it sweet
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen and his entourage have added a few more tonnes of carbon emissions flying…
Has newsweek become newspeak?
People may suspect they are living in an Orwellian media fever-dream when articles like this appear in Newsweek. Over the…
The conceit of the elites
Without a change to our governing model, Australia will witness the same upheavals we’re seeing in Europe
Peak stupid? NSW Liberals back Greens and Labor on Net Zero target
Two big events occurred in Macquarie Street on Thursday morning. In Parliament, the Liberals joined the Greens in the Lower…
Winston’s moment
The Shaky Isles have a new government. At last. Christopher Luxon, with whom I spent a pleasurable day in Hawke’s…
Time for Albo to cut Bowen loose
Australia’s energy policy is an embarrassment on the international stage
Blueberry Fields Forever
‘Let me take you down, ’cause I’m going to blueberry fields. Nothing is real, and there is nothing to get…
Is Treasurer Chalmers the Pontius Pilate of interest rates?
Australian Prime Ministers typically leave a single memory to mark their reign. Morrison had his lump of coal. Rudd loved…
Transylvanian gold
Why is everyone arguing about the validity of Roman gold found by a peasant in Transylvania? More to the point,…
Game of wolves
The Albanese government mantra regarding relations with China ‘we need to cooperate with China where we can, disagree where we…
Multiculturalism put to the test
‘Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world.’ Australian political leaders of all persuasions have often paraded this…
Pray for sensible socialists and compassionate capitalists, son
There it was again, in a report about what Minister Bowen is planning next – that dreaded phrase … ‘dramatic…
Bowen should be goin’
It’s still not too late for Australia’s welfare, let’s hope, for the Opposition to call on the Prime Minister to…
Albo’s control of your TV is only the tip of the iceberg
With Communications Minister Michelle Rowland expected to introduce a ‘prominence’ bill this week, Australians should be very worried about the…
Does the ABS partner violence survey fall short?
Since the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its publication on partner violence, the widely reported statistic is that one…
A memoir: ruminating on multiculturalism
Although I do not harbour a principled objection to the writing (and reading) of memoirs – in fact, I enjoy…
Our ‘handsome boy’ in Beijing
Gosh, who knew the Prime Minister would be acclaimed as a ‘handsome boy coming from Australia’, as announced by China’s…
Your handy guide to unreliable activist journalists – published by them
We owe a debt of thanks to hundreds of journalists, and the media union house committees in the ABC and…
Punk Rock politics personified
Javier Gerardo Milei, Argentina’s President-elect, is the new face of punk-rock-politics. The unmarried, former soccer player, economics professor, singer, and…
The Net Zero lemmings rush
Australia’s ALP/Green government and their media mates are using subsidies, taxes, and propaganda in a lemming-style attempt to move the…
Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2023 to be introduced into NSW
After several lawsuits challenging binary gender values, Australia faces another strike against conservatives seeking to retain biological integrity. This time…
It’s amazing how profitable the end of the world has become
The Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC – or ‘COP28’ – is almost upon us. Like an expensive holiday…
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