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The danger of ‘luxury beliefs’
“Luxury beliefs” are all the rage in elite circles. Rob Henderson, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge who…
Gladys Berejiklian is not a victim
Not everyone buys into the whole, ‘poor Gladys betrayed by a dodgy boyfriend’ line. No one should… As Premier, Gladys…
Covid-19 and Hobbes vs Locke
As we inch towards learning to live with Covid, it is common to hear it said that the government is granting us more…
They’re only words
If we apply the Bee Gees standard to the Victorian Premier, then Daniel Andrews is in strife. In 1969 –…
Perrottet’s first task is to restore our democracy
Dominic Perrottet is known as a man of principle. His first test will be to see if he believes in our…
There’s something missing from Adam Bandt’s office
Adam Bandt’s Melbourne inner-city office is on the market, a kind reader has let us know. The building is as…
Tough love: why we risk being a really miserable lot
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Crack open the Dom
Are they any better words we could hear from a leader, any leader, state or federal, than Dom Perrottet’s words…
The Panthers faithful and the true believers: a tale of Western Sydney
Like 3.2 million Australians on Sunday night, I sat down and watched the NRL Grand Final between the Penrith Panthers…
National Cabinet should not be secret
National Cabinet has provided enormous power to state and territory leaders with very little accountability for their decisions in managing…
The bald and the bonkers
How quickly we forget. Gladys Berejiklian had her ‘sliding doors’ moment with Matt Kean a year into her premiership. Kean…
Their ABC teaches students about “systemic racism”
Abraham Lincoln said, “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in…
Vaccine mandates breach the Disability Discrimination Act? I’ve lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission to see
A couple of weeks back your correspondent paused his gardening to point out that the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth)…
Bodies with vaginas? Women want their sex back
The phrase “adding insult to injury” has never been so appropriate as in the treatment of women by the progressive…
The Catholic Church’s Plenary Council: another case of ‘reform, reform’ – aren’t things bad enough already?
This week, 280 bishops, clergy and laypeople will convene in a Plenary Council to consider issues that will have a…
Ten questions for the incoming NSW premier
This article was to be titled “Ten Questions for Gladys Berejiklian”, but … well, there you go. Much ink will inevitably be…
Victoria, the Venezuela of the South
Such was the ineptitude and mismanagement when Joan Kirner was Victoria’s Premier the state become known as the Albania of the south…
Here comes Perrottet, here comes the sectarian bigotry
Forty days and 40 nights? Alas, it appears that the downpour of sectarian bigotry that’s begun as it become clearer…
Our political ecosystem is full of collaborationist whores
The Great Covid Oppression has made it very clear that the political ecosystem is populated by people who talk about…
Matt Kean: not as bad as Labor?
Attempting to pick the next premier of New South Wales is a bit like working through a packet of jellybeans.…
Norm Macdonald – exceptionally normal
Norm Macdonald, that plain-speaking Canadian comic who died this month, aged 61, showed us how to respond with humour and…
I don’t like Pauline Hanson – but don’t like her being censored
I hold no brief for P Hanson who is a vacuous, shallow opportunist. Neither do I know Jessica Rowe who,…
Send the Glasgow climate and canapés conference to Iceland
November’s COP 26 meeting should be shifted from Glasgow in Scotland to Reykjavík in Iceland. Twenty-five previous meetings of this…
The Peoples Republic of Westralia ♥️ the Peoples Republic of China
Western Australia is increasingly a country of its own under Mark McGowan, so we shouldn’t be surprised that it’s pursuing…
Gladys goes. Will the NSW government?
How Gladys Berejiklian has fallen. It’s been just five months from her The woman who saved Australia front page of the…
