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Just like a Danish pastry, Australia will become a flaky composition of treaties
Here’s looking at you, Western Australia. Your Aboriginal Heritage Act has taken our national attention. We sit watching the unfolding of your…
Snow White and the politically correct replacements
In 1994, the British dance band and performance arts collective KLF decided to burn £1 million in a disused boathouse on Scotland’s…
The Woke art of debanking men
Earlier this month, Nigel Farage’s bank announced they were closing his accounts. The controversial UK politician had been with the bank for…
Government: the leading source of misinformation
Clear your schedule, pop some corn, and settle your tush into your favourite chair, because I am about to both…
The great green backlash: is Labor next?
Net Zero is the politics of poverty. This dim economic reality lurking beneath all the feel-good social media propaganda about…
The Sound of Freedom, a revolutionary act
During times of universal deceit, wrote George Orwell, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Our time can certainly be…
Soy boys – not what you think
When livestock farming became unfashionable and it was said palm oil was unsustainable, soybeans stepped up to become the darlings…
Aboriginal heritage laws and The Voice: Rowan Dean was right
If you want to know what practical difference The Voice to Parliament is going to have, then you only have…
Australia: a land of untrustworthy, scheming authoritarians?!
Once upon a time, in high school, our politics teacher asked us what the Australian national identity was. To wit,…
Co-governance smoulders in election run-up
In New Zealand, the general election on October 14 will be, to some extent, a judgment on the extensive co-governance…
Do you speak-a my language?
When 9 News put out a story on Twitter this week claiming a pack of four wongari had attacked a…
The worst policy failure of the decade?
Writing about Australia’s management of the Covid pandemic, Garrick Professor of Law, James Allan, commented that: ‘…in a decade or…
Facebook fact-checking God?
In the plethora of substitute saviours, few in the contemporary era come close to Facebook’s far-left fact-checkers. They are the…
Daniel Andrews and ‘trust’ live on different planets
I don’t give the proverbial rat’s arse about the Commonwealth Games. It is a second-rate sportsfest, whose only value is…
When giants fall: the collapse of wind energy
If the Statue of Liberty were to keel over this morning, odds are someone would notice. There’d be chunks of…
Our bias toward ‘Yes’
In a world where positivity is encouraged, it is only natural to have a bias towards the word ‘Yes’. ‘Yes’…
Artificial intelligence: the next extinction?
With technology developing ever faster, a new threat is looming in the form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) potentially interacting adversely…
Has world war three already begun?
‘War, Boom, Bust’ is often heard in the context of economic cycles in history. A war is needed to get…
Dangerous detail: how the Voice will select its 24 members
Australians have been told that if we want to understand the Voice proposal we should read the 272-page Final Report…
NATO’s broomstick army
In the good old days when you typed into Google, French military victories and pressed the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button, the response…
Presumption of evil not innocence
How can it be that a man of impeccable character in his late 70s is convicted of 28 nasty sexual…
Let them eat Macarons
Fireworks were banned on Bastille Day. Justice has been updated by the French Senate’s new bill which has approved Big…
Gambling with Australian lives
At the beginning of the Covid vaccination rollout in Australia on 21 February 2021, then Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared…
Double Shot Ep11: David Adler on why the Jewish people should vote no
Guest host Rebecca Weisser speaks with special guest David Adler about why the Jewish community should vote ‘no’ to the…
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