We need to ask:  Is WorkSafe Victoria grossly incompetent or is something else going on?  Yesterday, June 29, 2021 was…

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, supported by state premiers and territory chief ministers, is set to make the coronavirus vaccination mandatory…

Here’s an old writers trick that doesn’t involve moving to Tunisia and becoming a dope fiend. If you don’t want to say…

A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…

Australia’s current WuFlu situation is not dire in world terms, yet from the reactions of federal, state and territory governments,…

Here we go again. Let us sip once again, dear fellow citizens, from the bottomless well of public policy insanity…

Humanity is only ever one blackout away from the caves. The more advanced and complicated a civilisation, the easier it…

#GladysClusterFukup was trending on Twitter yesterday. That was no surprise. Like most of Twitter, it was driven by malice. But…

Readers may remember my abortive undercover mission in the People’s Republic of Wikipedia, specifically in the Protectorate of Dark Emu. …

It’s a dreary day again for Sydneysiders, who face a fortnight of lockdown, maybe more.   That’s despite the best efforts…

After all the lurid lies and speculation about Daniel Andrews’ stumble down those stairs, have we been missing the truly…

Just who really runs Western Australia? How long will it be until some Sam Dastyari-style scandal emerges in the state’s…

Now that two well-credentialed academics acceptable to the left have debunked Bruce Pascoe’s blindly acclaimed ‘history’ book Dark Emu as…

Jacinta Price has won the top spot on the Country Liberal Party’s Senate house ticket and, if usual electoral patterns…

The Irukandji jellyfish, Wikipedia tells us, are any of several similar, extremely venomous species of box jellyfish. with a very…

New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has announced the latest fix for our bushfire problems. Unsurprisingly it involves big spending.…

As the High Court judges retire to consider the Science Case of the Year, Peter Ridd v James Cook University,…

The Irish Times reports that an IMF study of Ireland estimates that the nation will need to spend 20 billion euros a…

The great English novelist Charles Dickens, based on his experiences, had a very dark view of lawyers and the legal…

In the Irish stronghold of south-west Victoria, St Patrick’s Day is a notable date on the celebration calendar.  Danny Boy…

In just days, the architect of one of the worst chapters in the life of Victoria (outside of war and…

A story has surfaced about a prostitute in Adelaide who alleged she was raped after a male client removed his condom…

The SpecOz has already registered disgust at New Zealand male-born Laurel – formerly Gavin – Hubbard’s selection in the Kiwi…

Something strange is happening to the Liberal Party in South Australia, long captured by the ascendant so-called “moderate” faction, led…

Did you see the recent Pew surveys in the United States about Twitter?  Twitter users make up under a tenth…