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EXCLUSIVE: Charming Clementine scores a government grant

4 May 2020 4:26 pm

Remember back in January when Yassmin Abdel-Magied scored that cushy $20,000 in cash and six-month residency in Paris? Remember how…

Why the Guardian Australia is wrong about green tape

4 May 2020 3:51 pm

In an article last Friday, the Guardian Australia outline a flawed critique of the Institute of Public Affairs’ latest research…

Covid-19: Sorting the wheat from the chaff since January 2020

4 May 2020 2:00 pm

Just yesterday a university degree in gender studies was valuable. Today a job at the supermarket is valuable. Yesterday a…

The Wuhan Flu gives us a greater sense of proportion of the real risk of death from climate change

4 May 2020 11:00 am

Number three in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…

Sayonara, Albo

4 May 2020 5:00 am

You may imagine that opposition can’t go too far wrong during this coronavirus pandemic. The government, under pressure, is having…

Coronavirus won’t kill globalisation

3 May 2020 5:55 pm

Our highly sophisticated global system of exchange now faces its single biggest existential threat. Globalisation has made us richer, freer,…

Labor’s right. We need to cut immigration

3 May 2020 3:43 pm

After well over a decade of engaging in a quiet bipartisan endorsement of Australia’s high immigration intake, Labor has finally…

School closures: light at the end of the tunnel – except in Danandrewstan

3 May 2020 1:45 pm

There is light at the end of the tunnel. Parents and policymakers have generally had enough, and schools are now…

Western lockdowns are killing people in the developing world

3 May 2020 5:00 am

There are a million reasons why the economy vs lives meme in relation to relaxing COVID-19 restrictions is a false…

Slowly but surely, Australia is returning to normalcy. Normal leftist idiocy, that is

2 May 2020 2:26 pm

Twelve Victorians still lie in hospital with coronavirus, including seven in intensive care, yet even the Pravda of Danandrewstan, The…

We’re over over-hearty healthcare workers

1 May 2020 7:12 pm

Over the past couple of months, the world has seen some heartbreaking scenes from hospitals hit hard by the COVID-19…

If Labor loses Eden-Monaro, stand by for civil war

1 May 2020 5:17 pm

Despite the Morrison governments various missteps and scandals since the election in May last year, opposition leader Anthony Albanese has…

Annaliese Van Diemen shows covidiocy is contagious

1 May 2020 4:00 pm

If you saw my reflection yesterday on the “shame industry’s” degrading of the James Cook 250th anniversary from a celebration…

Nothing like exposing the Twits of Danandrewstan

1 May 2020 12:05 pm

As I write this, coronavirus isolation measures are being eased in almost every state and territory in Australia. But in…

Coronavirus: wet markets or the lab – or both?

1 May 2020 11:30 am

The most credible version of how the coronavirus was let loose on the world glues together the two apparently contradictory…

Our cultural divide will complicate lockdown exit strategy

1 May 2020 5:00 am

Exit from the COVID-19 emergency measures is getting closer.  Exit will be fractious.  Some of us will want the disease…

The coronavirus can’t stop the windpower blowhards, let alone economic reality

30 April 2020 7:20 pm

For Australian energy, 2020 started precariously.  The bushfires showed the vulnerability of the nation to its subsidy-induced reliance on renewable…

How dare we ignore our celebrities at a time like this?

30 April 2020 5:30 pm

In the latest example of how the cult of celebrity trivialises everything it touches, actress Hilarie Burton has announced that…

Hey, Beijing. Min yi shi wei tian

30 April 2020 2:51 pm

Did we really need to get into a diplomatic spat with China while battling the restrictions placed on us by…

Eden-Monaro? Don’t risk it, Jim. The Senate needs you

30 April 2020 11:42 am

A by-election is on in one of the nation’s most fascinating seats, Eden-Monaro, the electorate that surrounds the Australian Capital…

Why Lockdown Stage 3 was never needed

30 April 2020 10:54 am

Predictions of the development of Covid-19 in Australia have not held up to even short-term scrutiny. For example, the Health…

Cook 250 has been destroyed by the shame industry – and that’s something we should be ashamed of

30 April 2020 5:00 am

The 250th anniversary of the landing of James Cook on the rocky shore of Kurnell 250 years ago yesterday passed…

Shop local, help our media industries survive

29 April 2020 7:30 pm

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a generational turning point.  The global disruption the virus has caused to consumers, business and media…

Bleach? The MSM has been drunk on its Kool-Aid since Donald Trump became president

29 April 2020 6:11 pm

Repressive regimes don’t tell the truth, and, if they do, it’s because the truth works to their advantage. Truth, for…

An open letter to Dr Norman Swan

29 April 2020 3:30 pm

Dear Dr Swan Normally I merely read “Open Letters” from my supposed betters telling me why they are right and the…