In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The activism industry
The activist professional caravan has moved on. Hitting the social media headlines in 2017, the #MeToo movement disrupted the community…
The most disliked Hollywood film trailer in history?
Well, that didn’t last long. It seems my faith in Hollywood to tell a decent story bereft of identity politics…
BoM(bed) again!
The mainstream legacy media have done it again. As a collective, they have demonstrated how utterly untrustworthy they are as…
Big Tech only wants to hear one ‘Voice’
In the push to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia’s Constitution, censorship is the greatest weapon – and…
Slow rolling crisis or banking wildfire?
The world’s leading funds manager, BlackRock, has argued the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) may start a ‘slow…
Were vaccines a political treatment for public fear?
‘All of the public health response [around Covid] appeared to be focused on ‘well’ people, and none of it was…
Labor’s Net Zero dream left in the car park
Nothing describes Net Zero better than Labor’s campaign ‘e-bus’ sitting dead on arrival in front of reporters after suffering a…
Where is the Royal Commission into Covid?!
Australians were shocked when the news of the potential enormity of the coronavirus pandemic struck in early 2020. Many were…
Guilt by association
There are two issues at stake in the transwars that are again finding their way to our shores with ‘Posie…
Alan Jones: Ukraine, China, Russia, and the crisis in Western leadership
All the talk is about submarines and Aukus, but the very big geopolitical issue is the war in Ukraine. Elements…
Balls: women don’t have them, and neither does Pesutto
I was so close to writing a good news story about cancel culture. There have been many examples of bravery…
Pesutto has doomed the Victorian Liberal Party
The Liberal Party is doomed. It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s the only way to understand the decision by John Pesutto,…
What’s left of our cultural inheritance?
Though it may come as a surprise to a postmodernist, 3,000 years of Western history offers some viable solutions to…
Failure on the horizon
The consequence of Daniel Andrews’ constitutional ban on gas is about to catch up with Victoria’s energy supply, to the…
Muddle Land: creating an unsolvable mess
Drawn in Magic Marker and selling over 100 million copies since the 1970s, Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men characters overcome their…
Let Women Speak event hijacked: clowns to the left of Moira, Nazis to the right
John Pesutto advised Moira Deeming on Sunday night that her position in the Victorian Parliamentary Party was untenable after she…
Moira Deeming should not be expelled
John Pesutto has declared his intention to expel Moira Deeming from her position as a member of the parliamentary Liberal…
Chimeras: the monsters of man
In 2021, under the cover of Covid, scientists from China, Spain, and America created embryos that shared human and macaque…
The Christian vote is searching for a home
In this final week of the upcoming NSW State election, there is still much angst amongst Christians on how best…
The Melbourne art scene: diluted mediocrity
The building is ugly and the inside is confusing. There are people everywhere and you have to look around for…
Australia’s erosion of informed consent and the avoidable death of children
Deception can be lethal. The last three years of Covid have taught us that. Adding to the pile of disconcerting…
To win, the Liberals must destroy the climate cult
Scrolling through Instragram, I came across a likable North Shore member running for the New South Wales state election. He’s…
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price speaks at the Mannkal Foundation’s Emerging Leaders event
Renowned Indigenous leader, activist, and politician, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, gave the keynote address for the Mannkal Foundation’s Annual Emerging…
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has restored my faith in Hollywood
A few years ago, if you were to tell me that a sequel story about a retired swashbuckling cartoon cat…
Changing tides: a return to Australia’s shipping industry
From 1851, paddle steamers could transport up to 2,000 bales of wool along the Murray River, with engines that were…
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