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The return of Ross Garnaut and climate nirvana?
This week, the Financial Review has featured a return of Ross Garnaut to the climate policy advisory role. Soothingly, he…
Forget racehorses. What about drunk colts and silly fillies?
Yet again, we’re in the middle of the spring racing carnival. And, like every other year, there is so much…
Stasiland?
The late British-American historian Robert Conquest is attributed with a truism that only gets truer with the passing of time:…
God and the Rock – and our parliament and liberties
If there is one thing that I agree most whole-heartedly with, it is the need to let people speak their…
Q&A hits a new low
When I was at university four decades ago, debate raged about the evils of racism, capitalism, colonialism, orientalism and of…
Dan Andrewstan: punch police horses; protest the Cup the next week
The pugnacious pernicious parade of protestors who packed a few powerful punches on “good old Will the police horse” last…
Kanye West, holy fool
Kanye, famous for deifying himself, has found God. For some, Kanye’s konversion is the latest chapter in an eye-rollingly bonkers…
What now for Hong Kong – and our China appeasers?
Working at Radio Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution was my first introduction to politics in China. It was a…
Tinker, tailor, Abbott – spy?
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: GULAG’s confidence in the public service has been reinforced by…
Why is the ABC justifying violence?
Tonight our national broadcaster will take a step too far. It will lose all right to pretend that it’s “unbiased”…
The United Nations is a joke with zero credibility on human rights
Tell us something we don’t know, mate, I can hear you saying right about now. Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no…
Dogma is dominating debate on euthanasia in the West; emotion frustrating facts
The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 is currently before the upper house in Western Australia. The bill has been widely…
Stop those tears! Can’t you see the oceans are already rising?
Another day, another useful and informative bulletin from Extinction Rebellion. It appears that the silly hippies aren’t just scaring innocent…
What’s woke this week?
Roll up! Roll up! The death of a terrorist (and possibly any semblance of balanced reporting), more from the safe…
Yes, companies sometime underpay workers. Get over it
Most of us have now heard that another company — Woolworths this time — has underpaid workers and are going…
Leunig and the loon brigade
The ‘martyr mother’ archetype sums up motherhood in 2019 succinctly. The outrage over Michael Leunig’s illustration ‘Phoney Love’ is proof…
ScoMal goes green to GULAG glee
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: The exhilaration! CBD’s Christmases (oops seasons) are coming early. Just…
Washington, we have a problem (and probably Canberra too)
Another year, another annual survey on American attitudes towards socialism, communism and collectivism, conducted by YouGov on behalf of the Victims of…
Worker entitlement funds: the missing millions
Big unions boast that they represent the financial interests of workers. But actions speak louder than words. If unions are…
Techtonics: why the party of the workers has a problem with working people – and why it matters
This is the first in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.…
No free speech please, we’re Millennials
Another day, another survey paints a worrying picture of the attitudes to freedom of expression in the home of the…
Catholics didn’t squib the NSW abortion fight
Christopher Akehurst’s lament of the Catholic Church’s apparent absence from the recent New South Wales abortion debate, Eavesdropping on Sin,…
Why is the left allowed to bully whoever it deems dissident?
The Ellen De Generes I saw in the public eye was never really my cup of tea. Then again, it…
God and the Rock
Religion is a serious business. It used to command our lives and our attention, albeit the latter only weekly. Still,…
What the Joker furore says about our gatekeeper journalists
Perhaps the only thing to come out of the cinemas recently that is as interesting as Todd Phillip’s Joker has…