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The Melbourne art scene: diluted mediocrity
The building is ugly and the inside is confusing. There are people everywhere and you have to look around for…
Australia’s erosion of informed consent and the avoidable death of children
Deception can be lethal. The last three years of Covid have taught us that. Adding to the pile of disconcerting…
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price speaks at the Mannkal Foundation’s Emerging Leaders event
Renowned Indigenous leader, activist, and politician, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, gave the keynote address for the Mannkal Foundation’s Annual Emerging…
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has restored my faith in Hollywood
A few years ago, if you were to tell me that a sequel story about a retired swashbuckling cartoon cat…
Changing tides: a return to Australia’s shipping industry
From 1851, paddle steamers could transport up to 2,000 bales of wool along the Murray River, with engines that were…
The rise of the Fifth Estate
In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly.…
Power policy in parallel universes
This year Daniel Westerman will become a well-known if not much-loved public figure. In his role as the energy czar…
You won’t hear these statistics on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (IWD) came and went, with morning teas and combative speeches. We heard about unconscious bias, injustice, imposter…
The coercive control con job
Tomorrow, when NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman visits early voting centres in his local electorate, he’ll be in for an…
Alan Jones: Perrottet’s spending spree fails our children
Either the media in NSW have gone to sleep, or I am inhabiting another planet. I worked for a Liberal…
The Voice: undermining democracy and empowering the elite
A constitutionally enshrined uniquely Aboriginal organisation will do nothing to solve the ongoing problems of marginalisation and social dysfunction in…
Memes: the road to collectivism
As politics becomes increasingly polarised, policymakers are no longer focused on giving voters what they want, but on making voters…
The fallacy of equity: South Africa’s warning to the West
What do rolling blackouts, public disorder, and impending societal collapse in South Africa, have to do with the contemporary preoccupations…
Calling it what it is: voluntary assisted tragedy
Canada’s government has been tussling with the idea of providing voluntary euthanasia for those with mental health issues. This poses…
Masking science with politics in the Covid era
The release of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages in the ‘Lockdown files’ has been an eye-opener for many who are now…
Super betrayal: it’s not a tax on the rich, it’s a tax on the young
Throughout my twenty years as a financial planner, a frequent objection to my strategies is, ‘I don’t trust super’. The proposed…
The fanatical foot soldiers of feminism
So, another International Women’s Day has come and gone, and the usual plethora of dubious statistics, socialist ideology, and tendentious…
Australia’s big picture: climate change, nuclear energy, and defence
We are destroying our economy by shutting down baseload power whilst subsidising fake renewables, big batteries, and the incredible energy-gobbling…
Get Woke, go broke: Vanguard ditches ESG investing
The world’s second largest asset management firm, Vanguard, with $8 trillion AUM, has pulled out of the ESG madness. This…
Men welcome in women’s basketball
It’s funny how the universe works. The first round of the women’s NBL1 competition is set for April 1st. That’s…
Alan Jones: should the pension age be lowered for Indigenous people?
Wouldn’t it be valid to argue (though Australians are frightened to say it) that Indigenous Australians, who constitute 3.8 per…
Silicon Valley Bank: doomed to fail?
The basic question to ask about the collapse of the $200 billion Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is, why did it…
Dignity – yours to lose
On my morning walk with the dog I passed through a family gathering. The path I was on goes right…
Did the ivermectin ban cost lives?
It appears that we live in a reality where doctors are censored and early treatments such as ivermectin are banned,…
The horrifying rehabilitation of paedophilia
There’s no faster route to acceptance, even canonisation, in the post-modernist, feelings-trump-facts contemporary world than the path of victimhood. Don…
