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Loosen corona restrictions or face a fearful future cost

29 April 2020 2:04 pm

If you want to know how much the coronavirus pandemic might cost, the International Monetary Fund’s recent world economic outlook…

Clementine Ford prepares to launch beauty line?

29 April 2020 12:07 pm

Lockdown has done funny things to many people. We’re seeing hidden talents emerge as a by-product of not being allowed…

Let’s rediscover James Cook and his extraordinary voyage

29 April 2020 5:00 am

Today marks 250 years since Captain James Cook and the crew of the HMS Endeavour made their first landing on Australian…

Learning from lockdown

28 April 2020 7:36 pm

Like all parents of school-aged children in my state, I recently received an email from the Education Department letting me…

Let’s get this straight: COVIDSafe is grossly flawed

28 April 2020 4:00 pm

The take-up of the government’s COVIDSafe app has been truly remarkable, with over two million downloads in the first two…

China has been playing us for mugs

28 April 2020 1:35 pm

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

Coronavirus: advice for the perplexed and bewildered

28 April 2020 11:46 am

Are you bewitched, bothered and bewildered about how to deal with the coronavirus? Be not dismayed; you are not alone.…

Rebuild muscle, not flab

28 April 2020 5:00 am

In order to kill corona-wasps in the ceiling, politicians have knocked our economic house down. Now they dream of rebuilding…

The PVO merry-go-round

27 April 2020 6:01 pm

If you were to open up Peter Van Onselsen’s brain and have a look around, you would find scrambled egg. …

The Planet of the Humans: Moore vs Gore and the renewables recidivists

27 April 2020 4:00 pm

Michael Moore’s The Planet of the Humans is currently one of the top trending videos on YouTube. Just in time…

Are the Trump outrage merchants drunk on their own hand sanitiser?

27 April 2020 3:49 pm

Have we all really become that stupid? Has it really come to this?  Have we all lost the ability to…

Even the left don’t want Turnbull

27 April 2020 5:00 am

Poor Malcolm Turnbull.   The Liberals don’t want him; he may even be expelled from the party for being such…

Everyone thinks they’re a great writer when corona cabin fever strikes

26 April 2020 3:43 pm

Pandemic Poetry   On isolation How the hell do you spell pendemic anyway? Maybe I should use a thesaurus, no that…

Yassmin’s Gallipoli offensive – thwarted

25 April 2020 3:44 pm

Narcissist nutjob and professional victim Yassmin Abdel-Magied — presumably currently suffering in Paris’ oh so trendy Marais district on the…

Mark Latham takes on the ‘anti-discrimination’ industry

25 April 2020 1:47 pm

I don’t know when it happened precisely, but Mark Latham has become one of the champions of religious freedom in…

Lessons from the Anzacs as we navigate crisis

25 April 2020 8:24 am

National crises challenge liberal democracy more than anything else. Citizens surrender civil liberties they couldn’t imagine living without in ordinary…

Privacy fears over the corona app? We lost our privacy long ago

24 April 2020 2:08 pm

All this carry-on about the corona app is way too late. Worrying about our privacy? We lost that a while…

Our deep thinking corona crusaders – and others

24 April 2020 12:02 pm

In the fight against coronavirus, it is disconcerting to have people barracking for the virus. The latest cheer-leader for the…

Castle falls

24 April 2020 10:07 am

“Thank God.”  I’m sure that is what Israel Folau would like to Tweet right now. The Chief Executive Officer of…

Australia and China: where to after this?

24 April 2020 5:00 am

Coronavirus has reinvigorated discussions around the Sino-Australian relationship. Australia’s dependence on China highlights how interconnected we are on trade and…

School closures hurt disadvantaged families more

23 April 2020 9:53 pm

Schools are one of the most complex parts of the policy response to coronavirus. Policymakers seemingly have to navigate the…

China: diminished and exposed

23 April 2020 5:42 pm

A propaganda banner reads: “Create Happiness for the People”. The CCP, the Chinese Criminal Party, is steeped in the communist…

WHO on earth do they think they are?

23 April 2020 1:40 pm

I woke up this morning to one of the strangest tweets ever. It was from World Health Organisation boss Tedros…

“Corona-sexism”, cry the poor me women brigade

23 April 2020 11:00 am

The Morrison government has poured not one million, not several million, but $1 billion into support services during this coronavirus…

Random thoughts on the coronavirus lockdown 

23 April 2020 5:00 am

For some time now I have been a sceptic as to the relative or statistical dangers of this coronavirus as…