Flat White
Plain packaging has failed. It’s time we looked at alternatives to reduce smoking risks
For some people, hydroxychloroquine cannot possibly prevent or treat COIVD-19 infection because it would vindicate President Trump’s support for it.…
Confucian wisdom
The International Energy Agency is just another international agency that Australia finances in order to receive advice that, if taken,…
Nothing like proving the(ir) ABC’s a sheltered workshop
I’m waiting for white knight Jimmy Barnes to come to the rescue of Ita Buttrose. Ita has taken a cold chisel and cracked…
The forgotten religious roots of #MeToo
A bathrobe-clad Harvey Weinstein raped starlets, or tried to, during meetings he’d arranged with them in his hotel room. He’s…
Coronavirus hasn’t killed you? Don’t worry, there’s a new euthanasia push coming
Jackie Trad (aptly nicknamed The Terminator) wants Queensland to follow the lead of Western Australia and Victoria in giving people…
Empty self-indulgence damages
Those organising the Black Lives Matter protest scheduled for this week in Sydney argue Australia is a racist country riven…
Their ABC’s war on competition
The(ir) ABC is like a greedy, selfish child who sits in the midst of a huge pile of toys refusing…
Anthony Albanese’s capital punishment?
Elections; not state, not federal — but territory — are in the air. The NT votes late next month, followed…
How white were my Greens?
We all know the terrible truth about the Greens; that for all their noise and posturing, they’re largely Julian Burnside…
Why don’t we take the lead tackling big tech’s election meddling?
Why do we as Australians concern ourselves with American politics? Well, they tend to export many ideas to us. The…
Yes, there’s a pandemic, but we have pushed our public finances past the point of no return
The perfect storm of more than a decade of fiscal mismanagement and a “once-in-a-century shock” — Treasurer Josh Frydenberg –…
The Morrison Government’s coronavirus response has broken Australian politics
The Morrison Government’s economic response plan to the coronavirus outbreak has effectively broken Australian politics. Up is down, water is…
What’s woke this week?
Racism has remained the backbone of wokedom this past week with stories from the unlikely realms of sleep and K-Pop. Not to be…
Why didn’t we leave the cheese alone – and tackle violence and sexual abuse in Indigenous communities instead?
I’ve managed to go through my whole not so short life without ever associating the name of Coon Cheese with…
Why the left has seized on political correctness and cancel culture
I first warned about the dangers of political correctness in the early 1990s after reading the American academic Dinesh D’Souza’s…
ScoMo and Josh: worse than Whitlam?
In delivering the economic and fiscal update on Thursday, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg delivered on his promise of ‘eye-watering’ numbers. An…
A champion versus champion bigotry
Margaret Court is not only Australia’s greatest ever tennis player, but she is also proving to be something of a…
MasterChef is deeply, deeply racist. Apparently…
Next time an Asian makes the final of MasterChef, I’m turning the TV off. If my team – by which…
Coronavirus, climate and China: can we afford to fight three wars at once?
Australian politicians are trying to maintain their never-ending climate war on carbon fuels while waging a lockdown war on the…
Peter Ridd loses, we all lose
On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when…
The D10: decoupling from China
God knows there has not been much good news of any sort in 2020, so whatever there is deserves wider…
Coronavirus and the public toilet theory of human behaviour
Looking around the world, some of the nations first hit by Covid-19 are well on the road to economic recovery…
Peter Ridd and James Cook University: the Federal Court delivers a devastating blow against free speech
The Federal Court has devastating blow against mainstream Australians, against freedom of speech and against freedom of speech on climate…
Official: “Sport Australia has not defined the term ‘woman'”
Should women and girls have to share change rooms and toilets with people with male genitals? Is it okay for…
The other virus
The barbarians are not at the gate. The barbarians are manning the gate. And they decide who gets in and who stays in. …
