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What’s a girl got to do to get elected nowadays?
I’m wondering what a girl named Gladys has got to do to get elected nowadays. Winning Sky News debates is…
The Christchurch chaos exercise
Scissor statements are weird. They’re something that most people can’t instantly define, yet they are an inextricable element of today’s…
Gladys Berejiklian: Liberal legend?
If Gladys Berejiklian wins the state election she will be a certified New South Wales Liberal legend. There have been…
Recep Erdoğan’s war on history
The most touching, if not confronting, memorial at Anzac Cove is the sandstone plinth inscribed with words attributed to Kemal…
Women in parliament problem? Your answer’s Rwanda
The Coalition has received sustained media and ALP criticism regarding their percentage of women in parliament – so much so…
Hire two new pen-pushers: that’s economic reform, NSW Liberal style
Last May at the New South Wales Business Chamber, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet announced with great fanfare the state would establish…
Eighty-nine billion new reasons to quit the Paris Agreement
Momentum continues to build for Australia to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. New economic modelling prepared by Managing Director of…
Why this Conservative believes Fraser Anning couldn’t be more wrong
I was working out of a coffee shop in Cairns overlooking Trinity Inlet when my Twitter feed went nuts with…
Is virtue signalling our new social currency?
The internet was imagined by its pioneers to be the arbiter of a new information renaissance, believing that it would…
Ten reasons why Donald Trump will win a second term
In one of those classic, “the truth is stranger than fiction” scenarios, it’s been revealed that former First Lady Hillary…
The scare is settled? Have the climate catastrophists won?
Evidence does not seem to matter in the debate on human-induced climate change. Hardly anyone is listening to reason. Minds…
Memo, Josh: only fiscal discipline works long term
Former Treasurer Wayne Swan’s valedictory speech hailed the legacy of his stimulus package (but not the subsequent — and growing…
Christchurch: a time for tears
I attended the funeral service of a Christian minister last year. In the eulogy, his son told us how gentle…
Why Labor’s changes to capital gains fail the fairness test
In the run-up to the next election, the Labor party continues to press the narrative that its proposed policies are…
Backwards & Forwards: the week in politics gone, the week to come
Looking back Last Thursday, with millennials convulsed by the unprecedented crash of Facebook and Instagram, New Zealand’s Canterbury Police tweeted…
The identity politics of the lunar right
On Friday 50 people were massacred in New Zealand; murdered by a terrorist who looked at women and children and…
The Christchurch killer behind the headlines
What makes a man apparently plan in cold blood for two years the mass murder of his fellow human beings,…
Is Jordan Peterson a ‘gateway’ drug to Nazism?
At the recent Lesbians Who Tech summit in San Francisco—no, seriously, it’s a thing— Susan Wojicicki, the CEO of YouTube,…
Climate strike? In my day it was nuclear first strike
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction…
Venezuela’s not alone at the end of the road to serfdom
Venezuela in social and economic collapse provides a contemporary case study of where socialism takes a country, but one too…
Scott Morrison has just weeks to prove: is he a conservative or a con
I don’t want to spend too much time on all these Newspolls that show that Shorten’s ALP is going to…
No, no, no Alyssa Milano
I know it’s only March, but I think I may well have founder the winner of the “Dumbest Tweet of 2019”. In…
Freedom’s just another word, so don’t take it for granted
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” So sang Janis Joplin in her 1971 hit Me and Bobby…
How the school student strike reduces kids to puppets
School students are being recruited and organised to strike from school this Friday, 15 March. The website, schoolstrike4climate.com claims the…
Menzies, Malcolm, misogyny and merit
Malcolm Turnbull—our now disgruntled former prime minister—believes that that the Liberal Party “absolutely” has a woman problem. And, somewhat unsurprisingly,…
