Flat White
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
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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 –…
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…
