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Eden-Monaro: why so little focus on a seat so significant for both leaders?
For all its reputation as a “bellwether seat” usually going with the government of the day, Eden-Monaro has not been…
Time to end the unions’ super scam
Sir Robert Menzies said in 1949, “The best people in this community are … those who by thrift and self-sacrifice,…
Virgin’s Bain?
Last Friday, American private equity firm Bain Capital reached an agreement with Virgin Australia administrators Deloitte to purchase the dilapidated…
Power companies must decide: are they about virtue signalling or cheap, reliable energy?
Yesterday, The Australian reported dissent within the Australian Energy Council (AEC), the industry association that represents electricity generators. Of its 24…
So Albo’s safe from a Bill Shorten challenge – for now?
It’s fair to say that things are pretty awkward at the top of the ALP right now. Jim Chalmers is…
Memo AFL: do you play footy – or politics?
Australia is not a racist country and the Australian Football League should know better than to give its support to…
Only a market-based, real-world, cost-benefit approach can prevent a great global corona depression
The coronavirus, the political risk event of our generation, will change many things. Not least of these is the sufferance…
Queensland Labor: left and lefter
Queensland’s great political double act looks set to continue right up until the state election in October of this year.…
Confected outrage
Nestlé, why stop now? You are on a real roll trending and riding the tsunami wave of stupidity going on at the…
The truth about ethnic communities and coronavirus
Just as the epidemic shines a mirror on a host of issues, it has also raised questions about our multiculturalism.…
It’s 2020, so everything is racist. Especially at the ABC
It’s 2020, so everything is racist, including misspelling non-Anglo names. Over to Samoan-Australian ABC journalist, Tahlea (or Tali) Aualiitia (and…
Mounting anger around the Family Law inquiry
When Scott Morrison announced the Family Law Inquiry he described it on Channel 7 as an opportunity, “to hear directly…
Coming soon: the ALS Friedman Conference
It’s just a little over two weeks until Australia’s largest centre-right event, the ALS Friedman Conference, co-hosted by the Australian…
Cartoon lives matter
Hollywood animators were thrown into chaos last week when white actors said they would no longer voice coloured characters. Actors…
Is teeth whitening now racist too?
Remember when author J. K. Rowling got absolutely smashed on social media and cancelled for daring to say that only…
A glimmer of gender sanity in sport?
After initially publicly backing gender-fluid guidelines for women’s and girls’ sport, Sports Minister Richard Colbeck is now walking this back.…
Instead of abandoning the humanities, let’s save them from the loony left
In announcing a major overhaul of university fees last Friday, Education Minister Dan Tehan said: “universities must teach Australians the…
Vale, Owen Harries
Henry Kissinger, Owen Harries, Samuel Huntington, March 1998 History’s best beginning for a printed obituary was the beginning which Clive…
Dyson Heydon: process matters
The more serious the allegations the more important the process or procedure used to look into those allegations. In the…
Education reviews are booming. Shame the same can’t be said about school standards
Don’t be fooled by the “back to basics” language from the Berejiklian government — in reality, this NSW curriculum review…
Do the mob toppling statues expect their own monuments?
It is only a matter of time before someone pulls down a statue of Mother Teresa because she was silent…
Wasting your money: wattle the government think of next
Firstly, a solution in search of a non-existent problem; not surprisingly a brain fart of that most immaterial of prime…
Why does Big Public Health want to keep us smoking?
My partner started smoking cigarettes in high school. A little over a year ago, he quit, thanks to nicotine vaping.…
Why the humanities matter in the age of AI
I hope that we will not, under current pressures or emotions, be tempted to ignore the basic fact that civilisation…
Chairman Mao wiped out the sparrows, Chairman Dan will purge the ronas…
In a bold attempt to prove his worthiness and loyalty to Chinese strongman XiXi The Pooh, Chairman Daniel Andrews issued…
