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Who loves the WHO?

10 February 2021 5:10 pm

What are the odds of the WHO investigators discovering the actual origins of the Covid-19 virus? Even if the investigation team had been there a year ago, when the pandemic was just…

James Packer’s slipped Crown: a victim of sleaze – and snobbery

10 February 2021 3:57 pm

Melbourne legend tells that days before Crown Casino opened senior police visited the next largest gambling place in town, a…

Net zero jobs by 2050?

10 February 2021 2:33 pm

Australian farmers will hardly sleep easy with the assurance of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Michele O’Neil that…

Albo almost gets it right while Bowen blows hard

10 February 2021 1:08 pm

Labor Leader Anthony Albanese has told The Australian: A government I lead will always respect the central importance of successful…

Eddie McGuire: only a fool feeds the woke beast and thinks it will not devour him

10 February 2021 11:01 am

Collingwood Football Club President Eddie McGuire played the woke game for years but he could not outrun it. Yesterday he…

Putting the Voice in the Constitution: a dangerous move

10 February 2021 4:00 am

Recently, The Australian has run a series of articles, six at least, pushing the idea of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. …

EXCLUSIVE: Church set to defy Daniel Andrews’ conversion laws

9 February 2021 8:34 pm

The Presbyterian Church of Australia stands poised to defy Daniel Andrews controversial ‘Change or Suppression Practices Bill’, passed last week.   As…

Capitol Hill: call that a coup?

9 February 2021 6:31 pm

To understand how far short the Capitol Hill riot falls of any serious standard for insurrection one only needs to…

The UN decrees ‘There’s no wrong way to be a woman”

9 February 2021 4:37 pm

It’s not for nothing that the United Nations entity for women is called UN Women. They do, after all, spend…

Using political logic, quarantines, border closures and lockdowns may never end

9 February 2021 2:40 pm

The recent knee-jerk lockdown has sparked more discussion about the ‘value’ of a human life. Yes, it may sound callous to put a price on life; yet we…

If business is paying back JobKeeper windfalls, what about the bureaucrats and their bonuses?

9 February 2021 1:04 pm

JobKeeper. JobSeeker. Job destroyer. Well, the mob has spoken.  Those businesses who legally and correctly accessed the Job keeper scheme,…

Why we must fix the feral Tax Office

9 February 2021 4:00 am

When underhand, commercial bullying happens in the private sector, there is righteous community uproar. Regulators investigate. Even Royal Commissions can…

Wokespeak: a pocket guide

8 February 2021 5:30 pm

With the ascendency of Joe Biden and the rise of Leftism around the Western world, it is vital that every…

Introducing a wonderful new news service, Google Boring

8 February 2021 4:15 pm

While the federal government makes threatening noises at Google and Facebook, egged on by legacy media outlets in what will…

Mark McGowan versus the world

8 February 2021 1:52 pm

It’s been an eventful week in Western Australia. When I say ‘eventful, I don’t mean ‘fun’ eventful – I mean ‘what…

Yassmin plays dress-ups

8 February 2021 11:31 am

When she’s not busy disrespecting our servicemen and women, flouncing around her grand residency in Paris courtesy of the Australia Council, or recounting her generous grant dollars, Yassmin Abdel-Magied (YAM) is…

A brief history of absolute nonsense

8 February 2021 4:00 am

Robert W Welch Jr was, shall we say, an interesting bloke. You might think that a chap who made a…

If a picture says a thousand words…

7 February 2021 4:13 pm

This weekend shot says it all in just two: Albo’s rooted. We have never seen the leader of a major…

Forget Super Bowl Sunday, it’s hyperbole month in Washington

7 February 2021 10:17 am

“Like Lincoln, Biden comes to power at a time when a country is torn between conflicting visions of reality and…

Who remembers what happened last month?

6 February 2021 3:02 pm

Precisely one month ago today a truly extraordinary, appalling event occurred. Astonishingly, it seems few people can instantly bring to…

In defence of offence

5 February 2021 4:31 pm

It might be time to say something in defence of offence.    In recent weeks the views of Craig Kelly, Israel Folau and…

The virus made us do it

5 February 2021 2:28 pm

Let’s be honest.  Mr Morrison and the Coalition right now are offering us all the sort of interventionist, huge spending,…

Why does Facebook ban conservatives, but give the Mad F–king Witches red carpet treatment?

5 February 2021 11:59 am

If your politics are right of centre, you are constantly criticised for pushing “conspiracy theories”.   If you try to assert…

Our universities don’t need more money, but instead a focus on the fundamentals

5 February 2021 4:00 am

Covid-19 has forced Australian universities to face a harsh reality: the international students who pad their bank accounts aren’t coming…

No, a great koala national park won’t help koalas

4 February 2021 8:16 pm

The only accurate information in Newcastle University’s newly touted “independent assessment” of koala conservation is the disclaimer: “no responsibility or liability for any information,…