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Break-up Big Tech? It’s complicated
There are only two unity tickets in United States politics at present. These are distrust of China and distrust of…
Australia’s problematic arts culture
The ideological closed shop that is Australia’s creative classes isn’t really a secret even if the artists themselves insist on…
There’s no magic bullet in the Palace Letters, yet republicans have shot their conspiracy theories to pieces
It is surely ironical that on Bastille Day 2020, the faces of Australia’s fake republicans should be so liberally smeared…
Extinction Rebellion’s shameful cultural appropriation
Extinction Rebellion are boasting about their latest little piece of absurdist street theatre, a protest outside Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s…
Sport should unite us, so why are its pampered pooh-bahs using it as a tool of division?
Australians go to the footy to get away from politics and watch and enjoy the footy. Elitist sports administrators would…
Turkey continues its backward march
Being born in Australia to Greek and Cypriot born parents, I was raised to forget the nationalistic differences of past…
Um, slebs… about those adopted Asian and African kids
The “cancel culture” chaotic mob mentality continues its journey throughout the Western World yet I cannot help but wonder why it has not yet turned on Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron and other Hollywood…
Masterchef Canberra
If you are in the souffle business and you keep delivering broken crackers, no amount of increase in ingredients and…
Oh my God, I’ve offended the ancient Mayans!
Just when you think the world can’t get madder, it does. The SMAge (where else?) reports: Actor and writer Michelle…
Does David Copperfield work at the Bureau of Meteorology?
On January 13, 1939, The Sydney Morning Herald reported: ‘Based on officially recorded maximum temperatures ….. the registration of 124…
Do you want woke with that?
Such is the dominance of political correctness and cultural-left ideology that society is now awash with virtue signalling and kowtowing…
We need cancel culture herd immunity
I’ve always disliked the phrase “I told you so”. It reeks of bitterness wrapped in arrogance, especially when coming from…
Revealed: the true hottest day ever recorded in Australia
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was long regarded as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia, Bourke’s 125°F…
Standing for Hong Kong
First, they came for the Tibetans, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Tibetan. Then they…
Eden-Monaro: how dare #Cobargo residents think for themselves?
It’s been a week since the Eden-Monaro by-election. The outcome has been overshadowed by the mounting coronavirus crisis, but one…
We need industrial relations reform for post coronavirus recovery
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced there will be an overhaul of Australia’s industrial relations laws. He wants business groups…
There is no greater taboo than perceived insensitivity to Aboriginal Australia, so why the constant cries of racism?
“Burn the f…ing place down!” screams the angry young Aboriginal woman on the TV screen (in a red dress and…
Do we want to follow St Jacinda and price our industry out of existence?
Rio Tinto’s announced closure of its aluminium smelter in New Zealand due to uncompetitive power prices this week is a…
We are killing more people because of lockdown than we are saving
While it’s tempting, and even invigorating, to experience a shiver of schadenfreude at the resurgence of COVID-19 in Victoria on…
The woke: disregarding goodness in the absence of perfection
There was a time when our celebrities didn’t feel like they had to join the madding crowds and rush to…
Mr Andrews, tear down this wall
A few things immediately sprang to my mind this morning as I awoke to my city surrounded by rings of…
The latest in woke censorship: it’s only cancel culture when the cancellers say so
Meanjin online has published a piece by Eileen Chong, “Representations”, explaining why she demanded a short story written by Stuart…
The death – and rebirth – of the newspaper?
Everybody, whatever side of politics they are on, generally agrees that the media is one of the reasons that politics…
Old King Coal doesn’t mind the cold
Before sunrise on Sunday, the grass temperature in Washpool, in the south-east of the supposed Sunshine State, was minus 1.7…
Déjà vu in Dan Andrewstan
“For those of us who are old enough to remember it is starting to feel like 1990 has come again,”…
