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Dear Elon, please don’t destroy the world

27 May 2023 4:22 pm

The US Food and Drug Administration has granted Elon Musk’s company Neuralink approval to begin human trials on brain chips. Twitter…

ChatGPT hires human to pass ‘are you human’ test

24 May 2023 2:32 pm

AI life can lie to humans. Computer programs are perfectly happy to manipulate us in order to fulfil their programmed…

Indiana Jones and the Cesspit of Woke

21 May 2023 4:00 pm

The adventuring, treasure-hunting, ultra-manly Indiana Jones franchise has defined large portions of story-telling history in Hollywood. Not only did it inspire…

Elon Musk’s confusing ‘green logic’

20 May 2023 6:29 pm

A video featuring Elon Musk from 2017 has been resurrected showing his disbelief after seeing (what now feels like blissfully…

Net Zero’s artificial food crisis paves the way for ‘future foods’

16 May 2023 3:48 pm

Net Zero rules employed by the United Nations, European Union, and domestic political parties across the world are expected to…

The dark side of Bud Light

14 May 2023 2:45 pm

Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney recently said the backlash against Bud Light had left them having ‘trouble sleeping’. They are not…

White paper

11 May 2023 1:05 pm

No, you’re not imagining it… Trying to find white A4 printer paper in Australia is getting more difficult and expensive…

Sir David Attenborough: 97 years of environmentalism

9 May 2023 2:45 pm

Yesterday marked the 97th birthday of Sir David Attenborough. For generations, he has been the chief connection between children and…

There is no such thing as a ‘safe’ injecting room

2 May 2023 4:30 am

The Victorian Greens are introducing a bill to open the doors of government-run injecting rooms to pregnant women and children.…

Louder, Crowder?

30 April 2023 5:00 am

I have never been a fan of bringing the personal lives of politicians or media commentators into the public forum.…

Does Tucker Carlson’s departure signal a leftward march?

28 April 2023 5:37 pm

Viewers have long complained that media outlets are drifting to the Left, chasing ‘Woke’ advertising dollars, political relationships, and lucrative…

Fox News is all Tuckered out

25 April 2023 2:21 pm

Perhaps it is surprising – perhaps not? – that one week after Fox News settled its alarming defamation lawsuit with Dominion, the…

Barry Humphries and his Dame

23 April 2023 3:40 am

Several years ago, I found one of my parents doubled over in laughter – barely containing their brimming tears and…

Matt Walsh unmasks the vicious Left

22 April 2023 11:54 am

Online activists are the new revolutionaries and, as with their historical counterparts, they are becoming radicalised and violent in pursuit…

Lick the world

17 April 2023 7:30 am

US President Joe Biden has come up with some shockingly garbled speech moments in his short time as leader of…

Bud Light backs down (almost): are brands learning their lesson?

15 April 2023 6:48 pm

(Formerly?) popular beer brand Bud Light has suffered a major thrashing in the public forum since engaging trans social media…

Flat broke: Dan Andrews has run out of other ‘other’ people’s money

12 April 2023 7:30 am

Everybody knows that Labor governments are rubbish with money. They sit around for years, spearing holes in the bottom of…

Dutton’s first victory: Julian Leeser moves to the backbench

11 April 2023 3:26 pm

The Liberal Party’s Shadow Indigenous Australians spokesman and Attorney-General Julian Leeser has defied Dutton’s leadership decision to support the ‘No’…

Our moral panic over AI

9 April 2023 7:00 am

I was born three years after the first Terminator film was released and didn’t see it until I was around seven.…

Wave power creates Net Zero corpses in the sea

8 April 2023 4:00 am

Every year, there is a green fad that claims it’s going to ‘save the world’ with some kind of renewable…

The tragic end of Book Depository

6 April 2023 3:00 pm

The sudden closure of UK-based Book Depository has sent a shiver through the Australian literary scene. As one of Australia’s most…

Ardern’s last speech to Parliament commits her to climate action

5 April 2023 7:40 pm

Remember when Jacinda Ardern said, rather tearfully, ‘I don’t have enough in the tank.’ A sniffle later, the former Prime…

Richard Dawkins committed the cardinal sin

3 April 2023 6:00 am

The West is a theocracy. Not a Christian theocracy – or even an Islamic one – but rather a theocracy…

15 minute cities: burning to the ground

29 March 2023 8:00 am

Are this century’s ideological peasants finally revolting? It certainly seems that way after residents set fire to road block ‘planters’ which…

Victoria needs Voltaire

27 March 2023 4:30 am

So modern and fabulous we think we are… But it was the French philosopher of the Enlightenment period, Voltaire, who…