In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The Australian education system is woefully outdated
The aim of the Australian education system is to provide ‘a system that supports participation and helps all Australians reach…
Super self-own
The libertarians are having an ‘I told you so’ moment. A friend of mine who has long championed not putting…
Bipartisanship: a wolf in sheep’s clothing
During a parliamentary year, many bills are made into law which have bipartisan support. The danger is to fall into…
Boundless plains to share?
One of the more dominant themes intertwined in the great story of Australia is that of the bush. Embedded into…
How green was my valley? The changing face of the Green movement
How Green was my Valley? The 1939 novel and film of the same name, by Richard Llewellyn, was based in…
The RBA (reckless bank of Australia) needs a radical, not reserved, review
In a YouTube clip from the BBC show Blackadder II entitled The Idiots Guide to Alchemy, an exchange between Lord Blackadder (LB)…
We got Bernie, now let’s get Moira
What do you get if you combine Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, and Genghis Khan? Why, a conservative Christian…
Breaking the silence: a ‘how to’ guide
So far, we’ve looked at the case for the suspension of Covid injections and how vested interests contributed to the silence of Australia’s…
Ban these books!
The curious and eager nature of some to desperately find something to be upset about, like an overexcited bloodhound, is…
Family Law Reform fiasco – riches for lawyers and poverty for children
The proposed Family Law Amendment legislation by the Labor government will be another case of rearranging the deck chairs on the…
Alan Jones: Albo’s victory is stained with dishonesty over super
I have said for some time that politics is not about personality, but about policy. You hear people say, I…
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…
