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

King Charles vs Ayn Rand

3 January 2024 1:50 am

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

2 January 2024 5:15 pm

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

2 January 2024 4:00 am

Stop enduring those night sweats, Mr Bowen … fear not! CO2 is safe. It’s welcome. I write to you openly…

Power on, livelihoods off

2 January 2024 4:00 am

While some companies are set to gain millions of dollars, other individuals fear they will lose hundreds of thousands of…

Christianity in decline

1 January 2024 3:00 am

It is platitudinal to claim that Christian religions in Australia are in decline. Indeed, for several years, Christianity has been…

Space junk

1 January 2024 2:00 am

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

1 January 2024 1:00 am

The 2024 presidential election is already proving to be a breeding ground for controversy, with states taking an audacious step…

Tesla’s Skynet moment

31 December 2023 10:33 am

The news cycle dragged itself out of the Christmas hangover with headlines such as the Daily Mail’s: Tesla robot ATTACKS an…

Michelle 2024?

30 December 2023 2:37 am

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?

30 December 2023 2:01 am

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

29 December 2023 12:02 pm

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

27 December 2023 10:11 pm

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!

27 December 2023 9:36 pm

The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the ‘power of a narrative’. The mass of people caught up in…

The energy Grinch

27 December 2023 2:06 pm

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

27 December 2023 12:55 pm

At 6.29 am on October 7, nearly 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded the State of Israel unleashing one of the most…

Seduced by communism

27 December 2023 12:04 am

The communistic approach, which underpins much of the West’s ‘good people/bad people’ political thought, is right – the haves are…

The King’s Speech

26 December 2023 4:30 pm

Standing in front of a Christmas tree adorned with ornaments dedicated to sustainability, His Majesty King Charles III used every…

Peter Dutton’s Christmas message: we live in the best country in the world

24 December 2023 3:35 pm

Australians will be looking forward to this Christmas; 2023 has been a year of hardships at home and adversity abroad.…

There you go. I said it. ‘Christmas!’

23 December 2023 9:04 pm

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. There you go. I said it. ‘Christmas!’ Isn’t it strange how…

Carols by Candlelight: a true Australian tradition

23 December 2023 6:00 pm

The tradition of Carols by Candlelight in Australia finds its roots intertwined with the arrival of the Cornish Methodist miners…

Merry Wokemas

23 December 2023 5:33 pm

‘Rejoice in the birth of a brown-skinned, Middle-Eastern, undocumented immigrant.’ You might have seen this message around the place in…

Tasteless: fake meat faces extinction

23 December 2023 2:49 pm

The fake meat industry is dying. In August, Wired ran the headline, Fake Meat is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet after weak…

Is Wikipedia struggling to maintain neutrality in times of political unrest?

23 December 2023 5:00 am

In the realm of social media, Wikipedia isn’t a platform that comes to mind. It isn’t thought to possess hate…

A victory for commonsense!

23 December 2023 2:00 am

In a win for commonsense, education ministers across the country have recently signed off on measures requiring universities to include…

Volcanoes, another end-of-the-world scenario

22 December 2023 10:52 pm

Those who think we can control the power of nature are deluded. The latest threat comes from Iceland. After a…