Flat White
A tertiary tragedy
Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility
Desperate Dan tries ‘bread and a $15m circus’
If Netball Australia had any decency, they would reject Dan Andrews $15 million sponsorship offer. The Victoria Premier promised to…
Let’s talk Covid apologies … and reparations
If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon. Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that…
Decline and Fall: Biden embraces childhood trans rights
There was a time not so long ago when educated men and women read Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and…
Jack the Insider is out of bounds
For the past two and a half years, Jack the Insider (Peter Hoysted), through his columns in the Australian, has waged…
Newspeak sabotaged the West
As the probability of war in the Indo-Pacific rises, Australia consciously jeopardises its energy security. In America, where a revolution…
Diamonds are forever: Andrews puts a ring on it
‘Bottom of the barrel politics’ is nothing new to Victorian Labor Leader Daniel Michael Andrews. He loves the contest and…
Victorian Labor: waste and rorts
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ announcement that industry super funds will support the socialisation of the energy grid will create the…
The kids aren’t alright
The Age of Anxiety has dawned. While this may be easy to dismiss as a natural corollary of the recent…
Lobster bisque
The doomed politics of Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew (Matt?) Guy
From mottos to slogans: the West is slipping
During a particularly long queue at Heathrow Airport – awaiting the pleasure of a malevolent little man, manhandling my personal…
US moves to end overfishing
As environmental awareness grows across the globe, there is one area of sustainability we don’t hear much about – the…
Locking up the world’s most liveable city
Victorian’s considering voting for a Labor government in next state election need to wake up and consider how the last…
The tribe has spoken
Once upon a time, sport was an international language. A child kicking a soccer ball in Argentina could communicate in…
HSBC’s greenwashing and the myth of stakeholder capitalism
Oh, the irony! Five months after infamously standing down its Head of Responsible Investment, Stuart Kirk, to appease a few…
Climate Change Police: the new CCP
The Climate Change Police. It sounds like a concept from the latest sci-fi, techno-thriller, or dystopian novel – doesn’t it?…
The cancer of Christianophobia
Mulling over the recent Andrew Thorburn injustice, I reflected on a photo on my computer. Say ‘Hello’ to a boy…
Biology refuses to play along
A company that sells tampons has been accused of lying in advertisements that insist ‘only women can have periods’. They…
It’s what’s under the hood that matters
What does an out-of-control self-driving electric vehicle have in common with the self-identification movement? Both are headed for disaster...
The Olympics and World Cup Soccer – can we afford it?
As the Tokyo Olympics wound down, enthusiasm for the Olympic Games persisted, but there is a downside to the acceptance…
Northern Territory is set to abolish religious freedom
Proposed amendments to Northern Territory 1992 anti-discrimination legislation is set to abolish religious freedom, as well as erode freedom of speech. The…
Victoria’s infrastructure con job
Some things in life are just too good to be true: often we spot them, but sometimes we don’t. If…
Cultural safety and confusion training
‘What is a white person? And what is this “whiteness” you speak of?’ Since the full-day Cultural Safety and Respect…
The Lady’s for turning … and Britain is burning
One knows better than to compare today’s politicians to great figures of the past. But in the case of Liz…
Which employers still have vaccine mandates?
Australian citizens interact with businesses every day, but whether those businesses have policies requiring their staff to have proof of…
