In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Men welcome in women’s basketball
It’s funny how the universe works. The first round of the women’s NBL1 competition is set for April 1st. That’s…
Alan Jones: should the pension age be lowered for Indigenous people?
Wouldn’t it be valid to argue (though Australians are frightened to say it) that Indigenous Australians, who constitute 3.8 per…
Silicon Valley Bank: doomed to fail?
The basic question to ask about the collapse of the $200 billion Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is, why did it…
Hopping off into Woke madness: Puma drops kangaroos
Sportswear giant Puma has gotten itself into a bungle. To polish its Woke credentials, the company decided to drop its…
Dignity – yours to lose
On my morning walk with the dog I passed through a family gathering. The path I was on goes right…
Did the ivermectin ban cost lives?
It appears that we live in a reality where doctors are censored and early treatments such as ivermectin are banned,…
The horrifying rehabilitation of paedophilia
There’s no faster route to acceptance, even canonisation, in the post-modernist, feelings-trump-facts contemporary world than the path of victimhood. Don…
Who qualifies for the Voice?
The so-called ‘Voice to Parliament’ is a proposal for a race-based advisory body established via a referendum to amend Australia’s…
Australia’s creeping codependency
There’s an old joke in psychology that when a codependent is dying, they see everyone else’s lives flashing before their…
Why I do not celebrate International Women’s Day (and what I propose in its stead)
International Women’s Day has come and gone once again. March 8 is the day we are exhorted to turn our…
Attempting to cancel Zulu exposes the Left’s idiocy
You would be hard pressed to find an Australian soldier who has served since the reactivation of National Service in…
A fresh approach to energy policy
Current energy policy in Australia is based on the arguments that greenhouse-gas emissions should be sharply reduced and that, as…
Giving six-figures to racism
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…
Rowan Dean: We don’t need a Voice because we already have one
As readers know, I occasionally like to be the bearer of good news and today I am delighted to tell…
Post-referendum blues
Come the referendum and the Voice will be dead or alive. But the shouting will continue. Post-referendum Australia will have…
Rules-Nazis
I went for a surf this morning, vaguely aware of a notion that fibreglass boards shouldn’t be used at the…
Alan Jones: the inescapable truth of the energy crisis
If politicians cared to move into the real world and listened, rather than lectured, they would understand the inescapable truth…
Woke rail networks want to save the planet, but they can’t look after their stations
I was born in Wahroonga. Attended school there. In the decades since, I have lived in and around the little…
Should white people atone for colonial sin?
It has recently been reported in the ABC that Nathan Maynard, a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, is seeking the body of…
Victimhood: the inversion of evolution by social stealth
There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters.…
The yin and yang of clean energy
After embarking on a clean energy tour to the US and Canada, I came back convinced that nuclear and renewables…
What’s in a name?
Indigenous disadvantage resides not in the affluent city of Mitcham, South Australia, but in the usually out-of-sight remote communities which…
Divine pronouns? Let God decide
The Church of England has been asked to respond to requests from clergy to use gender-neutral pronouns for God. The…
Digital dystopia
Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical…
Defining tyranny: will the Voice end democracy?
What is a tyranny? You probably know that China is a tyranny, even if the experts prefer the term totalitarian. Social…
