Flat White
Why the pandemic secrecy and censorship?
There is no justification for the uniquely high-level of secrecy the Australian government has maintained throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A…
Deadly virus kills our freedoms
It has been fascinating to watch how different countries have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic. Some nations have been nothing…
We have banned hate speech. Now we must ban hate votes
Drongo alert: this piece may contain traces of satire and irony. We have banned hate speech in order to protect…
Not the death of democracy – not even close
Contrary to the aphorism and what you’re seeing in America, things don’t fall apart, the centre nearly always holds. Despite what you read democracy…
The Great Purge
Beneath the noise of America’s Capitol Hill protests lurks the silent rise of Silicon Valley. Tens of thousands of social…
Another ‘mostly peaceful’ day in the USA
As Talleyrand famously said after Napoleon’s international kidnap and subsequent execution of the royalist Duc d’Enghein, “it was worse than…
Albo Labor is so bad it’s even dragging down the government
There are two writers whose analysis I try to almost always read – Aaron Patrick in the Fin and Troy…
A prayer for America
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and…
The real challenge for the real right
Many of us have watched with fascination and horror what has been unfolding in the American capital over the past…
Yes, the energy system is broken – but because of ministers, bureaucrats and regulators rush to renewables
Kerry Schott, head of the Energy Security Board, the most senior of the dozen or so Australian regulatory bodies, is…
Not so useful idiots?
In the battle of ideas, idiots are seldom useful. Look to Vladimir Lenin, who is reported to have coined the term…
Nancy Pelosi shows: gender is for bigots
Author’s Note: my editor refused to remove his (its) comments. Apologies. Stand and applaud, a great injustice has been corrected…
It reeks of blasphemy, but might more MP give us better service?
Australian democracy faces a crisis of representation. People feel alienated from our politics and our institutions. Donkey votes are up, minor parties’ votes…
Tell Chicken Little to go home and stop making policy
In a state with 8 million people in a city of 5 million, 49 locals this week contracted a virus…
Hillsong Church is to blame for absolutely everything
Forget coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party and Climate Change: the greatest threat to Australia is Hillsong Church. If you believe…
How coronavirus controls killed my faith in the Liberal Party
The following is my letter of resignation from the Liberal Party. It has just been presented to the Membership Coordinator…
Eight trends to watch in 2021
Twenty-twenty, the year of the “cool number” previously associated with the positive — perfect vision — has been anything but…
Revealed: the astounding quality of our state parliamentarians
From The Age: Labor upper house MP Cesar Melhem… said… some… MPs found it difficult to secure employment after… politics……
The new COVID crisis shows Victoria’s public health administration is in deadly decline
With the Victorian-New South Wales border shut again and the holiday plans of tens of thousands thrown into chaos it’s…
We are at war with China
Let’s face it. We’re at war with China. Whether we like this or not ‘war’ is what it is. At this stage,…
Three decades on and John Hewson is still getting it wrong
Australia’s most illiberal former Liberal leader John Hewson wants governments to begin randomly testing people for coronavirus. “Is it too…
Free to air tedium
It is said that you get what you pay for, and as regards free to air television, truer words have…
End the misery and confusion: we need national COVID coordination
At a time when Victorians should be celebrating the end of a horror year, thousands have cancelled their holiday plans…
How good is ScoMo’s ‘new and improved formula’ national anthem?
Ever since Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s (ridiculous) decision to announce via Tweet the changing of Australia’s national anthem, the usual…
Happy New Year and do what you’re told
While taking a rare trip one day on a suburban bus, I noticed a very small discreet sticker on the window…
