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

Do you speak-a my language?

19 July 2023 5:15 am

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?

19 July 2023 5:00 am

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?

19 July 2023 4:30 am

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

19 July 2023 4:00 am

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

18 July 2023 6:00 am

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’

18 July 2023 5:30 am

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?

18 July 2023 5:00 am

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?

18 July 2023 4:30 am

‘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

18 July 2023 4:00 am

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

17 July 2023 5:30 am

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

17 July 2023 5:00 am

How can it be that a man of impeccable character in his late 70s is convicted of 28 nasty sexual…

Let them eat Macarons 

17 July 2023 4:30 am

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

17 July 2023 4:00 am

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

14 July 2023 1:11 pm

Guest host Rebecca Weisser speaks with special guest David Adler about why the Jewish community should vote ‘no’ to the…

Chris Bowen, renewable fundamentalist

14 July 2023 5:30 am

You don't need physics when you have faith

Protecting children takes courage

14 July 2023 5:00 am

Just ask Dr Jillian Spencer, a child and adolescent psychiatrist

India’s Voice warns against affirmative action

14 July 2023 4:30 am

Caste and disadvantage are still deeply entrenched

Could Japanese interest rates trigger a global financial crisis?

13 July 2023 5:30 am

Ask Iceland.

Affirmative action is racism

13 July 2023 5:00 am

Asian American students win a victory against the woke left

How to fix our schools

13 July 2023 4:30 am

A new report identifies what needs to be cut

Trailercore is universally loathed

13 July 2023 4:00 am

But what is it?

What’s unfair about the Voice referendum?

12 July 2023 5:30 am

Not funding the 'No' case

Would Jesus vote ‘Yes’?

12 July 2023 5:00 am

And what would the Good Samaritan do?

Did anyone vote for a Voice for Cate Blanchett to parliament?

12 July 2023 4:30 am

Hollywood has a message no-voting neanderthals - evolve deplorables!

Should Australia and Ukraine should join NATO?

12 July 2023 4:00 am

The UN is powerless to prevent war