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There’s more to Daniel Andrews social engineering plans than the pandemic bill
Daniel Andrews is not a state premier so much as he is an engineer – a social engineer who is…
Victorian Labor: you can close your eyes, Dan, but the stench of sleaze won’t go away
Listening to dumped Victorian Labor cabinet minister, Adem Somyurek, speak today you’d swear you had stumbled into the X Files.…
Dateline Glasgow: the climate emergency wore cashmere
Much of the real work of COP26 appeared to diminish substantially after the leaders’ meetings concluded, and some journalists have…
How long can Marshal McGowan and his hermit kingdom stand?
After a piece of mine on Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan was published in The Australian back in February, a former…
Just the facts: coronavirus in Australia by the numbers – updated
Notes: The data below is generally current as at 4 November 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due to jurisdictional reporting…
Tim Smith did the right thing – eventually
It’s rare for a state politician to get a national profile when most Australians don’t have a clue who their…
After a week, a semblance of sense on submarines
It’s only taken a week to get here, but at last we’re seeing some semblance of sense over Australia’s future…
COP26 and the climate cult’s schizophrenia
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in addressing the fashionable fiction of human-induced climate change used the hackneyed phrase “It’s one…
Childhood experiments
Somebody once sang that the children are our future at a baseball match in New York but they never said anything about them being the collateral damage…
Carbon capture and story? Try hemp
Glasgow’s favourite son, Billy Connolly, once observed that the natural colour of the average Scotsman is light blue. It takes…
Three comments on the United States
How many readers realise that of all 50 US States it is Florida that, as I write this, has the lowest rate…
What’s new about politicians calling their opponents liars?
From Glasgow to Ultimo there is a most convenient confluence of resentment, even hatred. Feeling the heat at home and…
So long and thanks for all the krill
China is an eco-serial killer. When it’s not poisoning, re-landscaping or using Asia’s waterways to blackmail its neighbours, the Communist…
Je suis ScoMo
Je suis ScoMo. Friends, Australians, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come not to bury the Prime Minister. This time. …
How Canberra can stop Victoria becoming Dictator Dan’s Dystopia
Imagine a place where all power lies with one man. He gets to dictate the rules by decree. He can…
Don’t forget Labor’s still loathsome
Prussian soldier strategist Carl von Clausewitz is best remembered for his statement, “War is the continuation of political intercourse with…
Yes, Virginia, there is a culture war
Voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia just delivered a message that will radiate hope to Christians and conservatives in the Commonwealth of Australia. Parents’ concerns…
Glasgow and the greenhouse gap
As we watch the bureaucratic minions and the behemothic motorcades circulating in Glasgow, the ‘Greenhouse Gap’ appears to be growing. On one side of…
Forget the French fury and focus: Australia needs nuclear submarines now, not later
In the debate which has ensued since the federal government decided not to continue with the French submarine contract, it…
Albo, Macron – and the amazing Real Housewives of the United Nations tantrum
As a general rule, I’m a great admirer of the French. They have an effortless style, an endearing self-confidence, and a love of the…
The logic behind net zero
Tony Abbott once said, ‘climate change is crap’. What he should have said was ‘catastrophic anthropogenic global warming is crap’,…
The climate moaners need to get some perspective from history
Greta Thunberg rejects all ideas of the enlightenment. Despite what she wails, she is now living in the best times…
Sister Olive, 1921: the last filly to win the Melbourne Cup
What better time than Cup Day to mark a little piece of racing history? A century ago, in 1921, a…
Why the NSW Liberals must give the Modern Slavery Act effect
In June 2018, then-Premier Gladys Berejiklian told parliament there was “an undeniable moral imperative to take action in relation to all forms of…
Can Canberra be held accountable internationally for human rights abuses from state lockdown laws?
The Western Australia Premier has recently ordered 75 per cent of WA’s workforce to get vaccinated or face job losses or a…
