In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
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…
Did anyone vote for a Voice for Cate Blanchett to parliament?
Hollywood has a message no-voting neanderthals - evolve deplorables!