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1939 Revisited
September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, quickly overrunning Polish border defences, and advancing on Warsaw. What if, in the lead-up…
It took a while, but green academics finally woke up!
It has suddenly become politically correct to acknowledge that disruption of Aboriginal burning caused megafires in Australia before any hint…
Keeping Australia ‘on brand’
‘After four years of research and almost $10 million, a new “nation brand” and tagline have been unveiled – comprising…
Life is for living - not hiding
A woman came to the emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain. She was in her mid-fifties and was not well.…
We should be mad as hell at Putin and Western leaders
The trouble with Odysseus, the Ancient Greek mythological hero and King of Ithaca, was that his deceptions, while good in…
Want to ‘think bigger’? Switch off the ABC
Earlier this month, ABC Managing Director David Anderson delivered the startling news to a Senate Committee that, ‘Now, more than…
Australia’s ‘children of the Covid state’
The Victorian Department of Education and Training has now become the co-parent of our children. In a most disturbing government…
The stampede of green lemmings
No country on Earth relies entirely on wind and solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. They…
Throwing kids in prison doesn’t work
In 1993 the British Home Secretary, Michael Howard, famously said ‘prison works’. He was right, but only in the most…
Dark times for freedom of speech
You could barely imagine a more ludicrous scenario. A female CEO sacked without process. From Girl Guides. For questioning why…
Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers
If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of…
Covid and government: health as a numbers game
Numbers weren’t meant to be complicated. We use them daily, yet when it comes to Covid and our health they…
University and TAFE vaccine ‘policy’ mandates are misinformed
As an Australian, I have been fed a steady diet of anti-discrimination doctrine for many years. It’s a common thread…
It may sound crazy, but Russia should be admitted to Nato
The Cold War is over. It’s time the West started acting like it. When the hot war with Germany ended…
The West has a bad case of ‘tall poppy syndrome’
I notice that the infantile ‘cutting down the tall poppy syndrome’ appears to be flourishing again. A favourite target of…
Breadgate: let them eat wholegrain
In recent weeks it’s been tempting to look for similarities between the re-election prospects of Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison.…
Weaponising womanhood to destroy equality
Lately, I have been considering why, at a time when women have unprecedented access to opportunities and are participating in…
Bandit Bandt and grave robbin’ Albo
It would take a certain kind of malevolence to stand up during a pandemic and float the idea of taxing…
Simpleton central
George Orwell once observed: ‘Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.’ What would Orwell say about Australian…
115 years of the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club
On this day 115 years ago, the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club was established, arguably making it the first…
The ‘revolution’ is here and it cannot be censored
It has been a long time coming, but it appears we may be on the precipice of change. For two…
Can New Zealand move on from Covid mandates?
Omicron has arrived in New Zealand. A ‘freedom convoy’ has plonked itself on parliament lawns. As the police struggle to…
Infowars: government and big tech vs the people
How do we navigate this age of ‘infowars’ where we have an information overload and a 24/7 news cycle ready-to-engage-phone-addicted…
Australia: governed by kids that always get what they want
The kids are in charge. They just look older these days. The Reserve Bank thinks it can produce full employment…
In defence of nomadic farming, including with fire
For traditional Aboriginal Australians the concept of ‘Wilderness’ was not a cause for fond nostalgia, but was perceived as a…
