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The three lessons that Christmas teaches our culture
Christmas is popular. Nearly every Australian can’t wait to put up their lights and decorations. Retailers rush to sell them…
VATE’s commitment to championing the Voice
It shouldn’t surprise that at a recent conference organised by the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) teachers…
It’s acceptable to protest Covid measures – but only in China
And just like that, in case you missed the headlines, protesting against Covid measures has become acceptable. Heroic, even –…
Australians all let us rejoice, for Gough is, thankfully, long gone
Today is the 50th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam government. The hagiography is coming in a torrent: Whitlam…
Victoria and China: a tragic tale of two tyrannies
The contrast could not be greater: freedom is willingly being thrown away in Victoria and the West while being passionately…
Turn! Turn! Turn!
In 1965, The Byrds announced themselves to the world with their immortal hit Turn! Turn! Turn! The lyrics, which most people…
Twitter unplugged: Musk wages war on child exploitation
Twitter unplugged from the Woketopian matrix is firing on all cylinders, despite predictions the platform was doomed. Bitter at not having…
Cyborg assassins: robots granted a licence to kill
Cyborg assassins aka ‘Terminators’ (of a sort) have been legalised in San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) board…
‘Junior’ Coalition partner?
On Monday, the Nationals under David Littleproud and Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price took a political step that…
A belligerent Voice?
To paraphrase the awkward words of Joe Biden, ‘The Nationals ain’t black … they’re not voting for the Voice.’ Biden’s…
‘Racist’ Monkeypox renamed mpox - genius!
The World Health Organisation has announced a brand new, stigma-free, name for Monkeypox after US President Joe Biden denounced the name as racist. The…
Boys’ clubs under siege
Why do so many women have it in for male cyclists? All the jokes about unsightly middle-aged men in Lycra,…
A republic by stealth: why the King belongs on the $5 banknote
Do Australians know who is on their banknotes? How many of us, if asked randomly on the street, would be…
The Shinkansen to Hiroshima: a Covid-Haunted world
When Michael Jackson famously started wearing face masks, many took it as evidence that the great man had succumbed to…
Albo’s big night out
Not even Menzies looked this good in a penguin suit, Anthony Albanese thought to himself as he stood before the…
We need more male authors
Just as there are certain social and developmental proclivities that distinguish men and women generally, there are some subtle differences…
Power for power’s sake
Unlike the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who wrote that the East German government – unhappy with the election result –…
Local government needs to wake up from Woke
The increasingly pervasive Woke activist agenda has escaped its confines in university and academia, and hit the mainstream. We have…
Hakuna Matata? Sacked for being white
A sign-language interpreter performing in a Broadway production of The Lion King has allegedly been fired for being white. Keith Wann, 53,…
Yes, Australia has a problem with live birth data
The fact-checkers at the ABC jumped to the government’s rescue when I asked a few pointed questions about the reported decline in birth rates…
Dan enters the pantheon of ‘great’ leaders
Now the hurley burley’s done, and Dan Andrews is in the pantheon of the state’s great leaders, it’s time to…
Govern me harder, Daddy
The outcome of the Victorian election can perhaps be explained in one sentence: it’s better to believe the fairy tale…
Dying on their knees
Remember these two analogies. First one. At the start of the pandemic hysteria in Florida, the uncritical press had petrified…
Gender quotas are never the solution
‘To be judged on the content of our character and not the colour of our skin’ – that was one of…
The Victorian Liberals are totally…
Didn’t I tell you three months ago? If the Liberal party around Australia is buggered, in Victoria, it is totally…
