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Conservatism wins elections

14 June 2022 9:00 am

In the recent election, I saw – as a member and branch officeholder of the Liberal Party – the effect…

Sudden Adult Death Syndrome baffles doctors

14 June 2022 4:00 am

A strange new medical anomaly has doctors baffled as it sweeps across the country. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) is…

Facebook: hate speech or idiom?

13 June 2022 2:00 pm

In the annals of political skulduggery, there have been fewer brutal acts than the assassination of Julius Caesar on the…

Depp wins the #MeToo gender wars

13 June 2022 12:00 pm

After seven weeks of chaos, a verdict was finally delivered in the defamation trial brought by Johnny Depp against ex-wife…

Politicians have sabotaged the energy market

13 June 2022 9:00 am

‘After a decade of denial and delay, Australia deserves a better future – one with cheaper power, more jobs, and…

Pride, prisons, and women’s rights

13 June 2022 4:00 am

For Pride Month I’m fasting mainstream media and praying that pride leaders will stop allowing men to rape the most…

Forward to the future – or have the majors ‘had it’?

12 June 2022 1:21 pm

The Liberal Party found itself thoroughly thrashed during the last election, a situation which they brought upon themselves. They had…

Responsible government and the monarchy

12 June 2022 8:00 am

Given the speed with which Anthony Albanese attacked both the Australian Constitution and the Monarchy after the Australian election, you…

HSBC banker suspended for calling climate catastrophisers ‘nut jobs’

12 June 2022 4:00 am

HSBC has suspended its head of responsible investment, Stuart Kirk, following a blunt address where he called Climate Change catastrophisers,…

You have to accept my identity as a tree

11 June 2022 9:00 am

[Calm down, it’s satire.] There’s no denying the fact I’m a tree. For years I was a victim of gaslighting…

Planned chaos in Australia’s power generation

11 June 2022 7:00 am

Politicians are inviting electricity chaos in Australia by promoting the closure of coal-fired power stations, but also by promoting more…

Albanese snubs CHOGM summit

11 June 2022 4:00 am

Prime Minister Anthony ‘My Government’ Albanese’s enthusiasm to strut the world diplomatic stage has already begun waning.  He’s announced that…

#Auspol: rinse and repeat

10 June 2022 2:00 pm

Here’s my free election analysis that won’t get me on a panel show where people shout about their feelings or…

The potential danger of assisted dying

10 June 2022 1:00 pm

[A plausible scenario under the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022 that is worth considering.] John was 85. Two years ago,…

The moral monopoly of Net Zero

10 June 2022 11:00 am

Two recent books are timely and relevant – Alex Epstein’s Fossil Futures and Douglas Murray’s The War on the West. They crystallise…

Yet more ‘vaccine success’

10 June 2022 8:00 am

I recently received a communication from my GP’s surgery: ‘Influenza is spiking early. Our GPs report that those with 2022…

Australia’s perfect economic storm

10 June 2022 4:00 am

Successive Australian governments are directing our economy into the eye of a perfect storm. It should be avoidable, but due…

Mask-up for MonkeyPox

9 June 2022 2:00 pm

America’s Centre for Disease Control this week recommended travellers mask up to protect themselves from the MonkeyPox – a disease…

Hospitals: a medical and political crisis

9 June 2022 1:00 pm

Sensational headlines about ambulance ramping have become a regular event, with the usual finger-pointing of state versus federal responsibility made…

Where are the visionary politicians?

9 June 2022 11:00 am

As I watch my Australia transition from a Liberal government that only managed around 36 per cent of the primary…

21st century vandals

9 June 2022 8:00 am

The nihilism of the times is displayed by the fact that protesters increasingly see fit to attack artworks or statues…

The ‘incredible’ International Fire & Climate Conference

9 June 2022 4:00 am

Three consecutive extreme summers accompanied the Settlement Drought of 1790-93. Masses of flying foxes and lorikeets dropped dead in Parramatta…

Crypto: the opposite of a Kantian investment

8 June 2022 2:00 pm

‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so despicable it has to be changed every six months.’ – Oscar Wilde.  Therein…

Top Gun Maverick: Hollywood abandons ‘Woke’ and the CCP

8 June 2022 1:39 pm

You’ve heard the saying ‘Go woke, go broke’ due to various film and television instalments being rejected by audiences for…

We must educate ourselves on democracy

8 June 2022 11:00 am

I’ve undergone a crash course in the Australian voting system. It’s complicated and opaque – but has the potential to…