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If you want reliable reporting on the corona crisis, don’t bother with the(ir) ABC
The(ir) ABC likes to portray itself as the all-knowing, all-seeing receptacle of truth. It spends vast amounts of energy (and other…
RIP climate alarmism: 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’ coffin
Reason No.1: The complete collapse in trust in the United Nations and its associated organisations The World Health Organisation and the…
We also need an endgame to help corona cabin fever
The government needs to provide more details for their lockdown exit strategy. The lockdowns have isolated people, increased stress and…
Virgin no more
Yesterday, Virgin Australia announced to the ASX that it had entered into voluntary administration and that it intended to recapitalize…
Scott, Josh and Mathias: here’s how you get us out of this mess
The Morrison government has flagged tax cuts and aggressive deregulation as part of a pro-business road to economic recovery. A…
War, death and courage
Among the victims of coronavirus is our habit of annual pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in Turkey. And, tied to our…
We need to follow Trump and suspend immigration
In the years since the global financial crisis successive governments both Labor and Coalition have continued to run extremely high…
Flattening the curve or just muddling on?
We appear to have seven Australian governments that are paralysed, unable to decide whether they are really “flattening the curve”,…
The last post for Kokoda?
Whoever thought Anzac Day would be defeated by a bat-soup virus from a wet-food market in China or that the…
Miserable ghost Malcolm Turnbull’s ill-timed bigger picture
Australia is well ahead of most of the West in suppressing coronavirus. Out of a population of 25 million Australia…
Chernobyl and the Chinese flu: spot the difference
There’s a scene in the HBO mini-series, Chernobyl that bears an uncanny similarity to the current communist cover-up involving COVID-19.…
The lexicon of lockdown: a guide to the new corona-speak
The coronavirus epidemic has completely changed the world, including the way we speak. Words that only yesterday meant one thing…
What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain and Tony Abbott have in common?
What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain, Tony Abbott and the Australian media have in common? They are all strong-minded and…
The crazy Kiwi corona book ban
New Zealand’s Ardern government has outdone even the world’s most authoritarian regimes, banning the sale of fiction. Emails have issued…
Has the Chief Medical Officer replaced the parliament of Danandrewstan?
The Andrews’ Labor government’s draconian response to the coronavirus pandemic has given all Victorians a taste of what it is…
Malcolm Turnbull and the media fraudsters
Face it: the identifiable, small, smug cluster of the Australian media elite does not care it’s out of tune with…
Liberty is too important for bureaucratic bungling
Over the course of just a few days we have had all sorts of conflicting messages concerning the plan to…
The corona clampdown: are we just being silly over sniffles?
There has been a lot of confusion around COVID-19 statistics and what they means. The fundamental problem is that there…
Alexander Downer and Russiagate: a bigger picture?
Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — this time in different words: Alexander Downer, the Fredo…
The ABC has vanished up its own…
No! No! No! Not now. Things are bad enough already. It’s too early to start drinking. But no. The dumbed-down,…
Tackling coronavirus risks head on is the only way forward for business
Our major football codes are the canaries in the coal mine for hundreds of industries desperate to restart as soon…
Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull?
Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull? Contemporaries have had to suffer throughout their lives the intermittent…
Who are the real corona racists?
The threat of coronavirus has Australian officials inventing new and contradictory authoritarian laws daily — and they’re backed by the…
What’s going to happen to Generation Lockdown?
Imagine for a moment that you are a parent and someone knocks on your front door with a proposition. The…
There’s a ghost in my house
There’s a ghost in my house. Or there’s going to be. A miserable ghost. And you can also have one…
