In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Conflict in Palestine … again – where do you stand?
As a nation, why is a minority, including some of our elected representatives, condoning pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel rallies? Most Australians are not…
Energising the Liberals
The Liberal Party’s energy policies lack clarity, making them ill-suited to take to the next federal election (due by mid-2025).…
Occupation justifies murder…?
Dominating the news headlines this week on the Israel-Hamas war have been the calls for a ceasefire and for humanitarian…
Ukraine’s draft church ban: breach of religious freedom?
The Ukrainian parliament’s cautious nod of approval for bill 8371 banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) breaches religious freedom. Approval was tentatively…
Parliament votes for more fatherless children
October 19 was a dark day in Australia’s social history after our Parliament voted for more fatherless children… Labor’s draconian…
Albo gives EV drivers a free ride
It is no secret that federal fuel excise revenues have been in decline for years, and something needs to be…
Immigration and the fires of separatism
We have seen abhorrent scenes in my home state of New South Wales. It has been thoroughly disappointing, but sadly,…
Zoo life with Tanya Plibersek
We’re going to call it the ‘Jurassic Park Approach’. When faced with the potential extinction of a critically endangered ancient…
Refusing to label terror in the name of ‘neutrality’
No one has ever accused me of being an over-zealous defender of Joe Biden. Not that anyone would have been…
Digital trust on trial
Banking on your biometrics. The controversy surrounding corporate-dictated digital identification
Fight them on the speeches! Why the FSU is needed in Australia
There is a view that is common amongst the sceptics of cancel culture, that it is merely a battle between elites and…
It is still called genocide
Trick question 1: What is the main difference between the Nazis and Hamas terrorists? Answer: Gas chambers. Trick question 2: What is…
Is multiculturalism failing?
In March 2022, Declan Cutler, a working-class 16-year-old, died after being stabbed over 50 times by a ‘gang of teenagers’ in…
Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes
If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…
Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia
With the Voice Referendum ‘done’, it’s now both possible and necessary to recognise and understand the broader ‘revolutionary’ agenda that…
A tinderbox of incompetence
For a decade, the Victorian government-owned forestry controller VicForests has been a tinderbox of incompetence looking for a match. Gifted…
Nasty weather: renewable energy poses a national security threat
The least efficient way to handle energy is to store it. Imagine a bucket with a mosquito net for a…
We have a big problem
The tantrum of the ‘Yes’ campaign and its supporters following their referendum loss is symptomatic of a class of people…
Crisis of soul: moral relativism and the modern university
Alan Bloom, perhaps modern education’s greatest post-war critic, wrote presciently on Western elites’ decaying moral and intellectual fibre. Bloom’s 1987…
The madness of Net Zero
How crazy has the world become? What we are watching is the most insane delusion faced by humankind. To believe…
The Age of Audits
Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…
Time to punish the Big End of town?
Australia’s Big End of Town gambled heavily in the Voice Cup. They lost. Only the Nanny ‘State’ (Canberra) voted ‘Yes’,…
Our enemy, the government
The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny…
Education vs Wisdom: referendum voting patterns come under fire
Waleed Aly was technically correct, but perhaps discourteous, in the way he expressed the socio-economic difference seen within voting patterns…
False rape allegations aren’t so rare
Remember how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing…