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Police speak out on Covid regs: ‘The directions we are ordered to comply with are highly politicised’
Two weeks ago the Western Australian Police Commissioner, Chris Dawson, issued an edict. As of Monday, 9 August, any officer…
Why are we ruled by political party patsies – as well as unelected MPs?
Some time back I learned a valuable lesson. At one of our annual Summer Sounds Symposiums, bringing together individuals from…
Continuous disclosure obligations: now with less activist tail wagging the corporate dog
It was 2012 and I found myself walking into the High Court in Canberra: shiny red soles on my stilettos,…
A lockdown opponent’s wish: may I be courageous like Soviet dissidents I knew
At 58, I have for the first time become a dissident. I am in active opposition to Covid-19 related policies…
Australia, we’ve got you cowered
If you didn’t already think so, the news that police have received thousands of calls from Aussies dobbing in other…
ScoMo’s said ‘no’ – but this is why we need a ‘Freedom Day’
The great semanticist and one-time Republican senator from California, Samuel I. Hayakawa once remarked that language is thought in action.…
Just what is the Reserve Bank up to?
The conduct of monetary and fiscal policy since the pandemic began has no parallel in Australia’s economic history, certainly not compared to what happened during the more severe Spanish Flu a century ago. Back then in the…
Governments, get real. Eliminating Covid from the community with fines is fantasy
The unacceptable violence at Melbourne’s ‘freedom’ rally, the quieter Sydney and Adelaide rallies and the New South Wales/Queensland border ‘invasion’…
The Taliban take over The Age Green Guide
At a time when the world is going to hell and some perspective is desperately needed, thank God for the…
Scott Morrison and our Afghan allies: as shameful as Whitlam with South Vietnam
On August 18, 1971 then prime minister William McMahon announced the final withdrawal of Australian combat troops from Vietnam. It…
Let’s be more up-front and honest with the daily Covid numbers
According to the federal Department of Health website, yesterday there were 10,956 active cases of Covid-19 across Australia. Of these,…
The latest lessons in Covid management from Israel
Will no one rid us of our Covid-dementors? Gladys Berejiklian says restrictions could remain in place after 80 per cent full vaccination. Yet…
Imagine … no state borders to close
The premiers are tearing the federation apart. Let’s hope they succeed very soon. To see my point, just close your…
John Hewson joins the Salon des Refusés
Poor John Hewson. After being booted from The SMAge for being pale, male and stale — as stale as the…
ScoMo and premiers: if you want people to get vaccinated give them liberty
Lets talk SARS covid-19 — coroanvirus. The political responses to Covid, while varying across the nation, consist of a general…
Kabul: the harbinger of western decline or the catalyst for Trump’s return
Recently revealed from the fall of Afghanistan is that President Obama exchanged Kairullah Khaikhwa, the public face of the Taliban leadership,…
Revealed: how much debt the government has racked up for each of us
Although many people are aware that government expenditure will exceed government revenue for the foreseeable future, it can be difficult…
Freedom is the best reason to get vaccinted
There is a saying that goes like this: you can’t change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust…
I’m guilty of going against The Science: a defence of my condemned, censored ‘dangerous’ speech to parliament
Politicians condemned me. Big Tech censored me. The mainstream media said my views were a danger to public health. Why?…
Afghanistan, women and safety
We have all seen the pictures of another Afghanistan, of beautiful women in short skirts carrying books at Kabul University.…
Our politicians have created a cringing Covid mentality
“The EPL is back” shouted commentator after commentator this weekend as cameras panned across sold-out, maskless crowds across English stadiums.…
Afghanistan’s fall — and our disgrace
If you go into someone else’s house and trash it, you have a moral as well as a legal obligation…
Jacinda Ardern asks the Taliban to be ‘nice’ to women
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has come out and asked the Taliban to be ‘nice’ to women during this…
Qantas move makes mandatory job jabs clarity yet more urgent
Today, Qantas has become our largest corporate so far to announce it will make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all staff.…
Kabul: some good must come of this
I’ve had a few thoughts on Afghanistan, which is a disaster I was against in the first instance, but once…
