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And they’re off…

11 April 2019 9:10 am

Our exclusive campaign insider writes: In the morning mist of the world’s epicentre, the balloon has gone up. Election 19…

What’s woke this week?

10 April 2019 4:37 pm

Wokeworld this week offered up an embarrassment of riches as work continues apace on dismantling reason in favour of dumbing…

It’s time to end the seal of the confessional: the religious case

10 April 2019 12:14 pm

There have been recent calls in California and Australian jurisdictions for the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse by clergy…

How Labor is holding your tax cut hostage

10 April 2019 7:27 am

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg claimed in his budget speech last week that the government had repaired the budget “without increasing taxes.”…

Why is Facebook censoring a conference on Christianity and religious freedom?

9 April 2019 12:32 pm

Every day millions of Christians around the world are persecuted for their faith. They are often intimidated, abused and in…

Why can’t Australian politics produce a Cicciolina?

9 April 2019 7:51 am

The lead-up to the election? A third-rate circus. I mean, what would Italian politician and porn star Ilona Staller (aka…

Backwards & Forwards: Billy boy’s electric cars and a Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow budget

8 April 2019 3:18 pm

Looking back Josh Frydenberg and Bill Shorten had their budgetary pissing contest. My surpluses will be bigger than yours, my…

The cult of the vegan vigilantes

8 April 2019 12:39 pm

When I checked my news feed this morning it was filled with story after story about radical vegans causing mischief…

EXCLUSIVE: The men who really saved Australia from the GFC

8 April 2019 7:03 am

Often in Australian political life, individuals that make profound contributions to public policy go unnoticed while those more conspicuous have…

The unmentionable problem with Labor’s electric car plan

7 April 2019 1:01 pm

With the federal election campaign underway in all but name, the stars have been aligning for a move to the…

The Coalition needs a bazooka to stop Shorten. Try this one…

5 April 2019 12:19 pm

In my Backwards and Forwards column on Monday, I said that if Bill Shorten gave a barnstorming, grievance-pandering, promise-laden speech…

Play on Labor’s ground, surrender the advantage

5 April 2019 7:50 am

The 2019 Budget has been a budget that satisfies everyone but pleases no-one. It has proved to be a Labor-lite…

Ten reasons why we’re being denied the truth about Planned Parenthood

4 April 2019 6:21 pm

Do you know what is one of the most revealing films that won’t be shown in Australian cinemas this year?…

What about immigration, Scott, Josh?

4 April 2019 7:55 am

When Australia goes to the polls sometime and the Coalition is likely defeated, as the 50 straight Newspoll losses would…

More an epitaph than a budget

3 April 2019 5:29 pm

Looking at the reaction to Josh Frydenberg’s first budget, its beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It has…

What’s woke this week?

3 April 2019 12:26 pm

Wokeworld this week invoked cheese in the fight against Trump, introduced therapeutic cuddle parties for men to fight toxic masculinity,…

Roxane Gay’s toxic feminism

2 April 2019 3:09 pm

On Sunday night in Melbourne an event was held that was supposed to be a discussion/debate between Christina Hoff Sommers…

Scott and Josh’s tax sham surplus shame

2 April 2019 5:00 am

After over a decade of abysmal federal budgets, Scott Morrison is set to announce a budget surplus today. I expect…

Thanks, Liberals: income tax growth is almost doubling

1 April 2019 10:00 am

The government is tearing a hole in your pocket at an alarming rate. The Reserve Bank of Australia announced that…

Backwards & forwards: the NRA blows budget week to pieces

1 April 2019 7:27 am

The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Were you looking for pre-Budget leaks last week? For big…

How drug prohibition caused the Lawyer X outrage

31 March 2019 7:29 pm

An outrageous injustice is currently being investigated before a Royal Commission in Melbourne – the case of Lawyer X, now…

Would you leave your children with Clementine Ford?

31 March 2019 4:43 pm

Lock up your sons and daughters! Allen & Unwin have just announced they are ‘thrilled’ to be publishing a junior…

Al Jazeera has exposed One Nation as part of the political establishment

31 March 2019 12:04 pm

During an eighteenth century parliamentary debate, British statesman Edmund Burke professed that “in the reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a…

Mother, sister, brother produce a baby

30 March 2019 12:24 pm

Remember when people warned that redefining marriage would open an ethical Pandora’s box? And remember when those who objected to…

Bernardi bombshell: is Cory rejoining the Liberal Party?

29 March 2019 2:48 pm

Spectator types have shown their good manners this week. We haven’t spoken ill of the dead – or the terminally…