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George Pell remains a guilty man

7 April 2020 2:42 pm

Today, legal justice has been thankfully, belatedly, served. Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on all counts was quashed unanimously by the…

George Pell: Dan Andrews spits in the face of the justice system

7 April 2020 12:45 pm

So this is where Dodgy Dan’s mates in the CFMEU get their respect for the courts and law and order…

Pell case moves to higher court in Rome

7 April 2020 10:49 am

The fate of George, Cardinal Pell will now be decided in this building in Rome following the unanimous decision by…

Coronavirus and the double danger to sex workers

6 April 2020 6:30 pm

‘Coronavirus Fears Are Decimating The Sex Industry’, ‘Sex Workers Bracing For Income Loss During Coronavirus Pandemic’, ‘Sex Workers Are Facing…

Stop this pig-headed pandemic management

6 April 2020 4:19 pm

If this latest case of over-the-top moonbattery from Danandrewstan does not alarm you, I am not sure what will: A 17-year-old learner…

EXCLUSIVE: Extinction Rebellion – “stay sane”? Please. Define sane.

6 April 2020 2:30 pm

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder – as must be sanity, if the latest bulletin from…

Stimulus: where’s the money coming from?

6 April 2020 12:30 pm

In a week we have shifted from a globalised liberal economy and free society to a command economy with closed…

Quaranteens: will the ‘Boomer Remover’ instead melt the snowflakes of Generation Z

6 April 2020 10:30 am

Gen Z has come face to face with our first crisis, and it isn’t the climate emergency. Coronavirus is sweeping…

One ego plus one PC-type

6 April 2020 5:00 am

Barrie Cassidy hosted the(ir) ABC’s Insider’s programme for 18 years. An accidentally leaked 2013 document revealed he earned $243,478. Some…

Will we be paying to keep GetUp! going?

5 April 2020 3:11 pm

Here’s a little something that the Prime Minister should be urgently seeking advice on – or backbenchers with any steel…

Coronavirus: a threat to lives. The government response? A threat to fundamental liberties

5 April 2020 5:00 am

One of the few positive aspects of this present crisis is that some politicians are finally revealing their true authoritarian…

Will we survive coronavirus financial fever?

4 April 2020 5:00 pm

It is truly staggering how quickly fortunes can change. At the beginning of this year, the economy was ticking along…

Beijing Bob’s job application?

4 April 2020 3:14 pm

Heaven knows why a respectable family newspaper such as The Australian continues to publish the pronouncements of the thinking man’s…

Globalism is dead, long live the new nation state

4 April 2020 5:00 am

We all know the supposed ancient Chinese curse “may you live in interesting times”. As the first quarter of 2020…

Panic, parochialism, pissantery and pigheadedness: pandemics in Australian history

3 April 2020 5:00 pm

An incurable disease … highly contagious… those struck down by it shunned by neighbours and friends… its cause unknown ……

Dodgy Dan’s short sainthoood

3 April 2020 2:34 pm

Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has been getting a lot of brownie points, first for his role in coordinating responses to…

A note under the door to hotel quarantine whingers

3 April 2020 12:00 pm

We are seeing a tale of two types of human right now.  On the one hand, we have “influencers”, social…

Who’s woke this pandemic?

3 April 2020 11:00 am

I have one nagging question in the midst of this pandemic: Who died and made the(ir) ABC’s ‘medical expert’ Dr…

Are you happy now, Greta?

3 April 2020 5:00 am

Apparently, the current coronavirus pandemic is not linked to the exotic eating habits of the Chinese, but instead is due to “the…

Welcome to the new health system autocracy

2 April 2020 7:17 pm

Under the guise of the ‘precautionary principle’, Australia’s health system has overnight transformed from a bureaucracy into an autocracy. This is no surprise…

ScoMo’s gone as crazy as Kev, but we can still save the economy

2 April 2020 3:07 pm

When the Prime Minister and Treasurer appointed Stephen Kennedy as the Treasury Secretary, they opted for a bureaucrat who had…

Shut up there, Cazaly

2 April 2020 1:00 pm

They don’t know what they will do, when they will go back to work or how their families will survive…

The Ruby Princess fiasco: our leaders’ latest great failure not only over coronavirus, but China as a whole

2 April 2020 11:01 am

Our political leaders have significantly failed to protect Australians from the Wuhan virus. On the principle enunciated by President Truman…

ScoMo has built an economic time bomb. It detonates in six months

2 April 2020 5:00 am

Since it became clear to the Morrison government that the coronavirus outbreak could lead to a potential depression for Australia,…

No, you can’t judge a book by its colour

1 April 2020 5:08 pm

One of the tell-tale signs of the onset of Coronavirus Cabin Fever is that you start noticing the home office…