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The Right will slay this Woke dystopia
Conservatives the world over are taking back power and restoring sanity, but where is Peter Dutton?
Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states
Remember the chorus of Hollywood bien-pensants who publicly avowed that they would leave the country if Trump won the election in 2016? To…
The more things change…
In Moscow 1992, according to former ABC journalist in Soviet Russia Monica Attard, ‘the cost of everything – a loaf…
The Midterms: America faces its Litmus Election
In the 14th Century, Spanish chemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova discovered that litmus, a compound derived from natural bacteria, would…
Fiona Patten ditches safety for sex workers
‘It’s really opened a lot of doors, that could lead somewhere else.’ Jay said, unyielding. We stood at the entrance…
Living in the Latter Days
Australians are living in the latter days of the Anglo/American Empire. For centuries, world power centres have been moving west…
A lesson for Lismore
The Green anti-dredging cult has destroyed Australia’s ports and endangered riverside towns
Elon Musk giveth, and Elon Musk taketh away
Back in the lockdown days, around the time I started fiddling around with cryptocurrency, Elon Musk was hailed as a…
Climate vandals mimic ISIS in their war against art
One could be forgiven for thinking that climate groups had been masterfully infiltrated by swathes of fossil fuel merchants. How…
IR madness: Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill
Industrial relations lawyers in Australia each need to immediately buy themselves a new Porsche. Labor’s new Secure Jobs, Better Pay Bill is…
$15 million: the debt-trap of empty virtue signalling
Many Victorians are incensed by the news that Daniel Andrews has decided to spend Victorian taxpayer money to fill the $15…
Repatriation…?
As Mr Albanese cleared the way to repatriate jihadi brides, National Archives opened access to my mum’s naturalisation records. In…
Infectious diseases remain a threat
Have we learnt anything from our past experience of infectious disease? For well over a century, pandemics and epidemics produced…
Spitting out the truth
The problems on Darwin’s buses are not new and the Transport Workers Union has long campaigned for better protection for…
Climate injustice: a personal account from a Kiwi farmer
New Zealand sheep farmers have been singled out to bear the brunt of our country’s efforts to stop the planet…
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
