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Smoke clouding the judgement of health bureaucrats
There was a deafening roar last week caused by Australia’s tobacco control experts congratulating themselves on the latest national smoking results. You…
COVIDSafe is grossly flawed – an update
You read about it first in the SpecOz back on April 28 when I outlined the obvious limitations of the…
Is Dan Andrews using coronavirus as cover for war on the self-employed
Does Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ want to make being your own boss illegal? There’s mounting evidence. With the second big…
Mad F***ing Boycotts
“There’s no such thing as cancel culture,” scream wide-eyed mad witches atop their broomsticks while simultaneously insisting that all middle-aged…
On radical centralism
It’s an interesting point in time when a non-ideological and non-partisan stance becomes radical. That seems to be the point…
Sorry Alan, but Modern Monetary Theory is a load of cobblers
Alan Kohler considers the current crisis provides the ideal laboratory for applying the catchily titled Modern Monetary Theory — MMT. …
Coronavirus can’t stop crazy social policies in Danandrewstan
Victoria’s new race-based parliament, The First Nation’s Assembly of Victoria, has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution to establish a ‘Truth-Telling…
Who killed Red Pill lawyer Marc Angelucci – and why?
On the Saturday before last, July 11, just before 4 pm, my dear and wonderful friend Marc Angelucci was at…
Better targeted coronavirus cash is needed to avoid worse economic contagion
Tapering — rather than topping up — income support is key to sustainably and compassionately backing Australia’s vulnerable households and…
Gentleness is much needed in our restless world
On a solitary walk, I encountered two families. The parents in the first family were upbraiding their daughter —…
Here is a coronavirus update from your friendly public health experts
Hello. We’re from the government: And we’re here to confuse help you: Illustration: Katja Motion Picture Corporation/Krevoy/Stabler/Wessler Production/New Line Cinema.…
The self-interested inconsistencies of the RMIT-ABC Fact Check unit
Two years ago the opposition was pushing a the-government-has-cut-funding line for aged care. It was a lie, of course, and,…
Australia is out of touch with world tobacco harm reduction policy
At least in the United States and Australia, the systems of government are similar. Barring parliament and constitutional monarchism, both…
How coronavirus is killing small business – and threatening our values
The heart of the Australian way of life is under threat with small businesses fighting for survival as lockdown restrictions…
What’s racist this week?
Your woke correspondent has emerged this week from hibernation into the light of a brave new Wokeworld where white people are clambering over…
Lauren Southern: keep the theatre of cancel culture off the Australian political stage
Earlier last year I stepped away from politics in a bid to focus on family. What most people didn’t know…
We must resuscitate our near-flatline economy
The performance of the economy was weak before COVID-19, and now it is perilously close to flat-lining. In particular, business…
China, ‘consequences’ have consequences of their own
The Chinese leadership, through their mouthpieces in their embassies in Canberra, London and Washington, are these days mouthing veiled and…
EXCLUSIVE: Ripping off Clinton fits the bill for flailing Albo?
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. Or about how you can hold on to your job, anyway, if you happened to…
Australia can’t hit smoking targets by going cold-turkey
Australia has tried gums, patches, sprays, high excise taxes, and plain packaging. But for the last decade, Australia has collectively…
What ‘oppressive monocultural society’ do we have to tear down?
Hamlet summed up the problem of how to be good, “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes…
Fake fact-checkers fall flat on Michael Shellenberger’s apology for apocalyptic climate claims
Facebook fact-checkers have tagged veteran environmentalist Michael Shellenberger’s Forbes article as “partly false.” The widely shared article, ‘On Behalf Of…
Revealed: the Victorian government’s hotel quarantine judicial inquiry debacle
Premier Andrews of Victoria announced last week a “judicial inquiry” into the hotel quarantine program which has apparently caused the…
Forget about a catchy tag for the economic corona crisis. How do we get out of it?
Living standards, livelihoods and business survival are at stake as the pandemic — and government responses to it — wreak…
Republicans: time to accept the truth of the matter
With all the focus republican lobbyists have placed on the Palace Letters – a move that has backfired considerably –…
