Flat White
Twelve questions for the next Covid media conference…?
I’ve not wanted to get bogged down in Covid, but the censoring of debate and the quality of information is…
All hail ‘Marshal’ Mark, the Canute of the West
The announcement by WA Premier Mark McGowan last Thursday that he would continue to preside over a hermit kingdom indefinitely…
The political modellers have spoken: Covid is over in Britain
The political winds have swung and Boris Johnson has some dignity to restore after the shameless hypocrisy of the ‘Partygate’…
Nerds, nannies and dictators
Young nerds in Silicon Valley are now the rule-makers of culture across the western world. Culture, identity, and the conflict…
Talking Tonga
For decades I have avoided listening to, watching or being interviewed by the ABC in preference to the Wilcannia Weekly…
The tyranny of good intentions
Many are familiar with the term ‘fifteen days to slow the spread’. People were largely on board in 2020, given…
Freedom of political communication
I suspect the people who voted for Alex Hawke and Scott Morrison will not be particularly persuaded by the seriousness…
Who runs Australia – elected politicians or shadowy bureaucrats?
Who runs Australia? Is it the politically accountable politicians elected through the democratic process? Or is it the unidentified, unelected,…
Net Zero frivolity and our emissions reduction fantasy
One of the most tragic aspects of the increasingly unhinged focus on reducing human CO2 emissions at ‘almost all costs’…
George Christensen is a litmus test for liberal politicians
The second season of George Christensen’s political podcast, Conservative One: Pandemic Unmasked, has been extremely well received by Australians. Campaigning…
Melbourne’s medical nihilism in the time of Covid
Victoria has activated state-wide Code Brown emergency measures for the first time in its history on January 18. This means that all…
Travel pass does not mean ‘good to go’
My recent experience in departing and returning from and to Australia has demonstrated the complete disconnect between the Posing Politicians,…
Enough with the political correctness
People are intrinsically good and want to please each other. We may have our quirks and foibles, but to be…
Australian jobs held hostage by the ‘Vaccine Wars’
Of all the insanity of the last two years, I think one of the worst issues I have observed is…
Bread and games everybody, bread and games!
Australia is set to achieve 180 per cent vaccination now that the evil Novak Djokovic is out of the way.…
Forget peak Omicron, it’s peak accountability that Andrews fears most
While medical experts debate the timing of peak Omicron, the non-Labor side of politics hopes a different type of ‘peak’…
Did Australia buy tanks to protect Taiwan?
Australia splashed out $3.5 billion on 120 specially re-enforced US military tanks and armoured vehicles, causing prominent political reporters to…
Australia stubbornly refuses to become a republic – with good reason
Back in high school days, a group of fellow students at a model United Nations conference rankled the organisers by…
The strange emergence of the anti-vaxxer bogeyman
To Sir (!) Tony Blair, they are selfish idiots. To Bob Carr, they are simpletons. To the Archbishop of Canterbury…
Health fascism has become a Hollywood dystopian sci-fi
Some of you might recall the 2013 film Elysium starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. It is about a ravaged…
The Australian Republican Movement unveils another dud model
The Australian Republican Movement’s (ARM) recently revealed model for a republic is as unsurprising as it is bad – which…
Australians mugged by taxes and regulations
Issued last Friday was a new Victorian government review of ‘embedded networks’, which act as the electricity retailer to co-located…
Conservative, in the best possible sense
In National Federation of Independent Business vs Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned…
Graphs that give lie to the narrative
Numbers may not lie, but graphs can give the lie to the lockdown and vaccination narratives that have held the…
Minister Hawke’s bizarre reasoning spells doom for Morrison
I read with mounting alarm and incredulity Minister Hawke’s 71 paragraphs of reasoning on January 14, 2022 to the Federal…
