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The last few days (of chaos)
The afternoon sunlight creeps down the wall and as the day trades its heat for the intensity of evening’s deeper…
Each-Way Albo - I can be Bob Hawke!
[Calm down, it’s satire.] Labor leader Anthony Albanese has promised to say anything anywhere in order to win the upcoming…
Practicalities in addressing autocrats’ aggression
The shock of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that it demonstrated a form of aggression most people thought belonged…
Ukraine’s ‘disposable’ men
The tragic video of the Ukrainian father breaking down when saying goodbye to his family was heart-wrenching. But even as it attracted…
The Greens call for ‘Truth and Justice’
Many Australians would be understandably sceptical of the Greens’ call for a ‘Truth and Justice Commission’ to conduct ‘truth-telling’ with…
Logic is still dead in Dom’s domain
Throughout the Covid-era there has been a significant lack of logic in decisions made and restrictions imposed. Double standards have…
Brisbane mud army 2.0 – a lesson in liberalism
It was 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon and the humidity was stifling – even for Brisbane. ‘Get some selfies for your…
You’re bad, we’re good – the binary politics of 2022
The current advertising campaign for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers pens a letter to the perceived closed minds of Australia accusing…
CSIRO-LGBTQQIAAP+
Don’t expect Australia’s peak science body to come up with a vaccine against ‘wokeness’. They are, themselves, riddled with it.…
Zelenskyy and Ukraine are unifying the West
Lamenting an old England disappearing under modernity, Philip Larkin wrote in his poem Going, Going: Most things are never meant. The…
Sharks, technocrats, and the post-human delusion
Politics never interested me until a spate of shark attacks occurred at my local Ballina beach next to the river…
Green power or confusing failure?
I am at a loss to understand the ‘Green Movement’. I fully understand their concern about the use of fossil…
Capitulation complete for Ukraine-Russia conflict
It cannot be any clearer: 141 countries have condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate in a vote…
Why is India holding back?
India, like Australia, America, and Japan, is a full member of the ‘Quad’ – the new political group formed to…
The Central Bank Digital Currency is on the horizon
When Covid spread its shady particles around the globe, the borders of nations were profoundly meaningful as travel restrictions were…
The danger of hubris
As the apocryphal tale of King Cnut goes, he commanded the sea: ‘You are subject to me, as the land…
The game of marriage chicken
China is grappling with the problem of what to do with what they call ‘leftover’ women – unmarried women, often…
The ABC: where activism beats compassion
As residents of Northern New South Wales, a region known as the Northern Rivers, are still clinging to their rooftops…
War on Wokedom
War. It is a word dreaded by the average person who just wants to live their life in peace. But…
Elegy for Warnie
Shane Warne is gone. An Australian is gone. An Australia is gone. That he was taken far too soon goes…
Let’s not learn the wrong lessons from Ukraine
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has not gone according to plan. A defiant, motivated, and mobilised Ukrainian populace has put up…
The anti-free speech politicians of Australia
Free speech is not just another one of our freedoms, it is the foundation of freedom that all our other…
A 32-year-old time capsule echoes fear of war
I recently bought a property in a quiet rural hamlet nestled in the hills on the way to Mt Baw…
Kyiv falls: then what?
Taking control of Kyiv is one thing. Taking control of the entire country is quite another. But even if Putin…
Kids Helpline goes Woke
It shouldn’t surprise that under the heading ‘Sexual Identity’ the internet-based Kids Helpline promotes gender fluidity and diversity to children…
