In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Conservative Australians should be very angry
John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a…
Let the new feminism speak
Let Women Speak is just what it sounds like, an event aimed at giving women a platform. Anyone who shows…
Theologian Thunberg and the pseudo-religion
Imagine that: it seems that Greta Thunberg is now a top theologian…? Yes, I realise that honorary degrees are usually…
The trans counter-counter protest
On Saturday morning last week, the Save Our Children (SOC) coalition, which included Christian Lives Matter (CLM) supporters, gathered at…
Love diversity, equity, and inclusion – or else
A decade ago, when I returned to University in my home state of Queensland to train as a teacher, a…
Social media: radicalising the West into the climate cult?
Facebook users are aware of the suffocating control the platform exerted over the Covid narrative. The Silicon Valley giant became…
Trust is a big fat nothing burger
I was back at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the opener of the 2023 AFL Season. This time last year,…
The powerful politics of Covid vaccines
When did Pfizer accumulate the 94 cases which would have qualified for the primary endpoint (the evaluable efficacy population) for…
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…
