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Watching lambs leading lions
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Munich regarding the Ukraine crisis days before the invasion began. ‘Through those 70 years [post the…
Xi Jinping seeks to control Australia’s future
The current tragedy unfolding in Ukraine is a lesson to the West; history does repeat itself and we should take the lessons…
In search of monsters
In the final scene of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy – an astronomer who had attempted for…
Crypto politico – digital liberty for the masses?
Cryptocurrency, a bona fide buzzword of the last few years, has taken off as a means of decentralising financial systems.…
What happens to Australia if Pax Americana fails?
The invasion of liberal Ukraine by a revanchist Russia is as good an occasion as any to muse upon Australia’s…
Transgender activism in women’s sport remains unpopular
As Mr Morrison comes out in favour of protecting women’s right to the safety and dignity of playing sport in…
Putin sticks the bayonet into the West
Here in the United States, the average American is aghast at finding the United States on opposing sides to Russia…
Morrison: tough talk on Putin, feeble on freedom
When Scott Morrison was asked what he thought of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, Mr Morrison responded: ‘I call him a…
Fresh gunpowder in the nostrils of politics
Fresh gunpowder in everyone’s nostrils has brought a new political reality. It was only this month that US Army Secretary,…
Is the West cannibalising itself?
As Putin’s army continues its invasion of Ukraine, I am beginning to fear we are seeing Western society cannibalise itself…
Thugs ‘R’ Us
The meeting in Moscow was kept secret. The Soviet leadership had agreed to a low key exchange of views with…
When did we stop listening?
I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent person, not Mensa level by any means, but in all likelihood a…
No one cares about boys doing badly
Nearly forty years ago, I was interviewing a senior New South Wales bureaucrat about how badly boys were doing in…
Societal myopia – Covid’s severe complication
I am in my fourth and final year of post-graduate medical school. From the beginning of second year in 2020,…
Is it too late to save women’s sport?
There’s a change in the air. Last week, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas’ ‘wins’ and ‘records’ at the Ivy League Women’s…
False tears and pretend remorse over China
Pick up a politician – give them a little shake – and a few Chinese billionaires will probably fall out…
Morrison must make a choice about Ukraine
On Sunday morning, Prime Minister Scott Morrison attended church as he very often does. Except yesterday, it was at a…
New Zealand High Court overturns police and defence forces vaccine mandate
A New Zealand High Court challenge questioning the legality of Covid vaccination mandates for Police and Defence Force employees has…
Equal before the law
While it came as a surprise to me that a Canberra resident could lose her patience in front of the…
Scott Morrison, are you serious about protecting women’s sport?
‘It’s male and female bodies that jostle in sporting competition, not gender avatars.’ – The Australian. With the biological male,…
Will ‘woke’ survive the war?
Will the West’s obsession with Woke survive war in Europe? Or will Putin’s missiles finally explode the Never-Never Land of…
Heartless Woolworths to start sacking unvaccinated staff
While many countries across the world have ditched Covid health orders entirely – declaring the pandemic over and the Omicron…
Free things are not a ‘nappy’ thought, councillor
Buoyed by thoughts that Labor might actually be getting its act together, one of Sydney’s Inner West councils has come…
The working class of the world unite – against the Left
‘Working men of all countries, unite!’ exclaimed the last sentence of Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. Looking around the world,…
Terry the truth teller
Last week the LNP member for Longman in Queensland, Terry Young, did something few politicians do. He told the truth.…
