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No me digas! Spain is leading Europe’s feminine swing to the right
After almost three winters of discontent, Europe is swinging to the right and – reminiscent of the UK’s response to…
Plibersek, stop handing public money to billionaires
Mining giant and Fortescue Metal executive chairman Andrew Forrest said at a Sydney conference this week: ‘We are fat and…
Play hardball and stop the carnage
The Western alliance against the Russian Federation’s Ukraine invasion is characterised by soft leather shoes, white shirts, diplomatic suits, and…
Nuclear power: crossing the ideological divide
Europe is in the midst of an energy crisis. The abject failure of renewables to meet basic power requirements combined…
The vilification of Moira Deeming
Free speech and debate are important cornerstones of democracy. History demonstrates that they are the first to go when bad,…
Divide et impera: the end of pluralism
Pluralism – or the ‘doctrine of multiplicity’ – tends to go hand-in-hand with liberal democracy. Based on the concept of…
A big fat problem
For a country crippled by obesity, it’s not hard to see where Australia might be getting it wrong. Aside from…
The iron triangle of energy realism
Possibly the most powerful argument against the quest for Net Zero can be briefly stated using the Iron Triangle of…
iPhone’s ‘Clean Energy Charging’: the beginning of dystopia
iPhone users raged on social media after they discovered why their devices have been a bit sluggish on the charging…
Climate change: short on proof, drowning in nonsense
The environmentalist creed in context Environmentalism, more particularly its prevalent global warming strain, dominates politics. It is the fourth such…
Moira Deeming: former ‘Labor Party Princess’
Just when you think all hope is lost for the Victorian Liberal Party to ever regain its conservative political roots,…
Us and them: how the media seeks to divide
What did Julie Bishop really mean when she identified politicians as being members of the ‘political class’? It was rare,…
Indian diary
Eight weeks all up. Two of them on the well-trodden tourist path of Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur, but none of…
Peter Dutton: incapable of giving a straight answer on the Voice
Blue-Ribbon Liberals desperately want Peter Dutton to succeed. They want him to stand up and emerge from the Turnbull-Morrison rubble…
How to fix the teaching crisis: ban mobile phones, absolutely and completely
Thirty years ago I was teaching in a high school when a student brought in a very early mobile phone.…
The climate change debate: lessons from evolutionary psychology
One of the many perplexities of life is how some new scientific discoveries and insights quickly find their way into…
Live not by lies – climate edition
I used to correspond with Cardinal Pell. He was the only cleric in Australia who took a stand against the…
Worth fighting for
Germany could never have won the first world war. She was opposed by Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and eventually…
Hate speech or free speech? Balancing religious sensitivities with liberty
The New Zealand government’s most recent failed attempt to enact hate speech laws shows just how difficult it is to…
Is it time to defund public education?
For quite some time, I have been concerned about the attack upon private schools, and in particular, those who are…
The anti-anti-racism movement?
It is something of a rare delight to write positively about race relations in recent years. As such, these stories…
Caught between three scams: ‘a delicate environmental conundrum’
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mike Foley tells us that 20 per cent of development applications relating to proposals ‘threatening koala habitat’…
Science: prostituting itself for the luvvies
Hauling icebergs to Africa: could a bizarre plan to get drinking water actually work? It’s a headline so odd it…
Racist Labor?
Foreign Minister Penny Wong recently told an audience at King’s College in London that we should hear uncomfortable stories rather…
The lost generation: a global assault on children and young people
Last week, Australia’s children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, spoke passionately about the myriad impacts children and young people had endured due…
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