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Dear ABC, how did this get broadcast
One of the best emails I get in my inbox (after Spectator’s Morning Shot, of course) is the Fourth Watch Newsletter…
Operation weakened borders
As Tony Abbott’s immigration minister, Scott Morrison had one job: stop the boats. Stop the boats he did. He made…
Shining a light on Dark Emu
Finally, the spurious claims of Bruce Pascoe are coming under serious scrutiny from a source more credible than those alleged hotbeds of racism, Quadrant or the Dark…
The Australian public dis-service
Former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld once quipped: “You go to war with the army you have, not the army…
The comic relief bombs as a nation waits for Dan Andrews’ return
Reports of Melbourne’s renowned theatres all being closed this weekend are false. A Daniel Andrews’s scripted tragicomedy Let’s Lock Up…
The whinging at Peta Credlin’s gong exposes the left’s double-standards
On the one hand, left feminists love to hurl tedious tantrums and screech that more women should be recognised in the Order of…
The West’s Iron Ore Curtain and its electronic Stasi
Have you tried to travel interstate to Western Australia lately? If so, you would have been required to apply for a…
The great G7 jacket wars
It’s the G7 and as world leaders gather here’s the big question: who wore it better – Dr Jill and the psychobabble elder-care…
My plastic crack
Anyone born in the seventies or eighties will know that those were the golden years for collectable, mass-produced toys. It…
The looming medical apartheid
As is well known, the Afrikaans word apartheid means “apartness”. In South Africa, this involved keeping blacks and whites apart. We have moved on from…
Martin Luther King as a Trojan horse
Martin Luther King Jr. is a Trojan horse. Ask yourself, what happens when the conflict between Western Civilisation and the…
No philanthropy, thanks, we’re leftists
The other day, Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio Cortez took to Twitter to complain how her “abuela” (grandma) in Puerto Rico…
The King Cnuts of coronavirus
In eleventh century England, King Cnut was told by his admiring courtiers that ‘there is nothing on earth that dares…
What is the purpose of our universities?
Australia’s universities need to spend less time focussing on research and international students, and more time improving and safeguarding the educational…
Fighting for the truth about the Reef
It is an injustice that turtles are blown up in the Gulf of Mexico because American oil companies choose a…
Orwell in Danandrewstan
George Orwell must be looking down on the state of Victoria, rueing his lack of imagination. As dark as Orwell’s…
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…
