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Come fly the gender neutral skies
The gender-neutral brigade are getting a bit much. Last week I wrote an article for SpecOz about how women are…
The IBAC sensation: ‘ICAC, hold my beer’
State corruption and integrity commissions are well and truly du jour at the moment. Less than a fortnight ago, ICAC felled its…
Look over there! Look over there!
If it wasn’t so serious you’d fall off your chair laughing. A major sleaze scandal is threatening the Andrews Government…
Freedom Day? You have a barcode on your forehead
You wouldn’t let a premier tattoo a barcode on your forehead, so why do we submit to QR check-ins? “Those…
It’s not Freedom Day until we’re all free
Welcome to Freedom Day! Oh, hang on, this isn’t Freedom Day. If it were, everyone would be free with no…
The Business Council of Australia’s green schizophrenia
The Business Council of Australia is a pale imitation of the body that pioneered economic reform and deregulation 30-40 years…
The rule of medical law continues in Danadrewstan
Victoria has invented a new type of law: medical law. Medical law is enshrined in Victorian law by emergency orders made under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic). Medical…
When will South Australia tackle the Covid crunch?
No premier will be watching how events unfold in New South Wales with the relaxation of coronavirus restriction than South…
Freedom beckons for Sydney. Meanwhile, in Victoria…
Freedom beckons for New South Wales. As of tomorrow, residents of that state will enjoy exotic delights such as having…
If a cabinet minister can pay his legals why not ABC journalists?
In the national capital the most-used greeting is usually not “How are you?” but “What have you heard?” Canberra is…
Dominic Perrottet puts responsible government, not unelected bureaucrats, first
I can hardly believe it. The new Premier of New South Wales, Dominic Perrottet, appeared at a press conference yesterday…
Why can’t Canberra be more like Florida?
On Monday 4 October, after 245 days, Melbourne claimed the decidedly unwelcome record of the longest locked-down city in the world. On…
Will someone please explain to Daniel Andrews he can’t sack a judge who isn’t double-jabbed
The first of October 2021 will go down in history as a belter of a day in Australian politics. The…
I am a woman – and proud of it
I am a woman. I am not a uterus-holder, a vulva-owner, a person with a front-hole or a body with…
Journalists want health officials to run the country?
Our media is in thrall to the busybody worrywarts of the public health bureaucracy. From the Sydney Morning Herald from earlier…
Is Facebook really on the ropes?
It may be counter-intuitive, but American investigative and Pulitzer winning journalist Glenn Greenwald makes a strong argument that paints Facebook…
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…
