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Swimming between the Woke flags
One of the things that makes Australia so great is the fact that more than a quarter of Australians aged…
1.5 degrees of idiocy
There is not a lot of rigour in the COP process. This year’s extravaganza has predictably produced a platitudinous wish…
Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad thanks Australia
Ghazi Hamad, leader of the terror group Hamas, appears to have warmly welcomed Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister…
The yellow bus to nowhere
The middle Melbourne rail loop – Cheltenham to Box Hill for starters – will go on through the west and…
Cyclones, dunnies, and a belated confession
As far north Queensland mops up after the flooding and mayhem largely resulting from unpreparedness in the wake of Cyclone…
Albanese all at sea over Houthi rebels
What has long been regarded as a nuisance in the Red Sea escalated in recent days to a serious economic…
From West to East: shifting global power via Net Zero
The 28th annual scourging of fossil fuel users, the Conference of Parties (COP28), has been and gone. Like the previous…
Godzilla Minus One: an absolute riot!
In 1954, Ishirō Honda released Gojira. The movie centres on Godzilla, a gigantic reptile that is brought to life after being…
A year of failure for Albanese and Labor
During the election campaign of 2022, one got the impression that Labor Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, didn’t take winning the…
The politics of envy
One of the defining moments of the 2004 federal election was Mark Latham’s hit list of wealthy non-government schools and…
Science is a political dystopia
There was a time when science was seen as the domain of the nerdy few. When the topic of careers…
‘Little Bird Bookshop… You can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’
I had arrived at work on what I hoped would be one of the three busiest Saturdays of the year…
Weather apocalypse-mongering has endangered Queenslanders
You hear plenty of strange things when you work in retail, but I can’t forget the afternoon I received an…
Victoria: rotten to the core
The evidence is in. Victoria’s public service has become massively politicised, confirming what many suspected after nine years of Labor…
Albanese government: highest taxing since 1959!
What I’m about to say is probably not fair, but I’ll say it anyway. When working in party politics, you…
The ABC: answerable to no one
Ad nauseam! That’s the constancy of calls for the ABC to be shut down, privatised, or restructured. The first two…
‘Awaiting the tsunami’: the danger of coercive control laws
A few weeks ago, thousands took to the streets of Madrid to march on behalf of children’s rights, holding banners…
Walking the walk: what happened to the good old days?
As an ‘Old Bushy’ who has a patriotic and passionate love of our country, its environment, its history, and the…
Postcard from Buenos Aires
Wide awake at 3 am, in submission to the gods of jet lag, seemed an apt moment to jot down…
Rejecting the Queensland Climate Transition Bill
In March, Greens MP Michael Berkman introduced a Private Member’s Bill, the Queensland Climate Transition Bill 2023. The proposed legislation…
Shards of truth: the compatibility of farming and renewables projects
Up to one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural farmland could be destroyed by the industrial-scale solar panels and wind turbines
We’re back in the USSR
We have been handed a load of lies for many decades. I cannot tell which of them is the biggest,…
When the ice returns
Earth is living in the latter days of the Holocene Warm Era. This is the latest short, fertile, warm interlude…
Yes, they profiled citizens according to compliance
There has been an unexpected validation of the title of Our Enemy, the Government (Brownstone, 2023). In a stunning indictment…
Turning students into barely literate social justice warriors
The recently released results of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) confirm yet again the significant and systemic…
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