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Australia must teach Britain to be brave on trade
In 2016, Boris Johnson bemoaned Brussels’ influence, and correctly identified the need for a post-Brexit Britain to make many free trade…
ScoMo is no Marcus Aurelius
Fans of Outsiders – Sky’s best current affairs program – will recall Ross Cameron and his love of the great Roman Emperor…
Three corona updates
In the race to stupidity by the Australian state chief health officers, the three stellar performers, far ahead of all…
Beware the Human Resources Manager (let alone People & Culture)
If you’re looking for the biggest losers in the culture wars, look no further than your HR manager. Loathed in equal…
Tough love: behave, be humble and believe in something
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
The ABC: still number four
A strange thing happened on the ABC’s Weekend Breakfast last Sunday. The regular news presenters – Johanna Nicholson and Fauziah Ibrahim – are already…
It’s erotic if you use a feather. It’s only perversion if you use the whole peacock
Sensuality boutique Honey Birdette has come under fire for one of their video advertisements on display outside their stores in Australian shopping centres. …
Andrews’ fumbling acolytes take Victoria to the brink
It’s all in a day’s work for the still absent, highly paid Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews. While Dan comfortably takes…
The G7, woke corporates and the end of capitalism
The Bank of International Settlements, the G7 Finance Ministers and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission have amped up carbon emissions-based “climate…
The diminishing returns from our macho tobacco laws
For most people who work at the ATO, chasing tax evaders must be rather boring. They sit at their desks and review tax returns for undeclared income and ineligible…
The centre-right cannot hold
With apologies to WB Yeats and Joan Didion, the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate are now slouching, not…
How to win the Ashes using cancel culture
The suspension of English cricketer Ollie Robinson for poor form – not on the field but on Twitter — should…
While we were sleeping, New Zealand has lost a democracy
Jacinda Ardern believes New Zealand will become a republic. It’s all right, though, because she’s not in a hurry. But…
Curious… The woker it gets, the greater the ADF’s PR problems
As the inimitable Sir Humphrey Appleby once opined, “Minister, two basic rules of government: Never look into anything you don’t…
Victorians need an alternative government
If there is one thing that to be learned from NSW in the last 18 months, it is the fact…
Trans activists are stepping up their war on women
First, they came for the Christians and I complained a bit, then they came for the lesbians and I was…
Scott Morrison stands for nothing – and his kitchen cabinet thinks it’s great
The Spec Oz has been warning about this. Now it’s official. Scott Morrison stands for nothing. The Sun-Herald and Sunday…
Princess Annastacia versus the little people
The Queensland government is denying vaccinated parents of a newborn the right to see their baby while, at the same…
Trolling the Queen
The Ginger and the Whinger have welcomed a daughter into the world, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. We should all be…
Twitter now claims to be an essential human right
Where to start? Twitter outdid itself over the weekend when it ditched any semblance of modesty and decided to identify…
The Dan Show
Strap on your masks and break out the hand sanitiser – The Dan Show is back for a fourth season, sans Dan! Debuting…
My daddy issues
Prince Harry wants to talk about his childhood and work out whom to blame. So do I. I grew-up in Mount Waverley and they really were…
A harsh lesson for our university chiefs
Education Minister Alan Tudge gave a speech at the annual Universities Australia conference yesterday. Here is how the AFR education editor described what…
Another cock up from their ABC
If a story would not stand up in court, it should not be published. It certainly should not be published…
‘Crackpot’ lab leak theory suddenly ‘feasible’
What a difference a year makes. Sir Richard Dearlove, the MI6 chief (‘C’) from 1999 to 2004, was first interviewed on the UK’s excellent Planet Normal podcast almost exactly a year ago. His…
