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Even ABC types are waking up: vaping helps you quit
Australian anti-vaping ideologues can’t run away from the evidence anymore, but they’ll still try. The latest ground-breaking study in the…
Clementine Ford: showing off again
It was no surprise to me that manic exhibitionist Clementine Ford had sensationally resigned from her role as an opinion…
The empire – sorry, EU – strikes back
While it is always interesting to be a fly on the wall, it is also interesting to try to understand…
Smoking policy: all about revenue, not health
Despite a number of high-profile convictions in recent years, the black market for tobacco in this country is flourishing, as…
Does the Morrison government have the strength to slash red tape?
The future of freedom in Australia was dealt a blow at the start of the year with Senator David Leyonhjelm’s…
The Ramsay Centre: knowledge or nihilism
Everyone must surely be aware that the Ramsay Centre has held discussions with a number of Australian universities as it…
Gansta crap
The recent hullabaloo provoked by the United Patriots Front’s rally on St Kilda beach, ostensibly occasioned by the “thug life”…
Keep the lights working, not the spin doctors
Australian Energy Market Operator supremo Audrey Zibelman likes saying load shedding – rolling blackouts to you and me – is…
Pill testing: an indulgence for the elites
Total and unwavering prohibition. That is the future of sensible drugs policy. No one could claim that the pill testing…
How to go from train wreck to back on track
With the next election now at most four and a bit months away, the reality faced by the Coalition can…
Green energy vandals
Just as we have recharged this long weekend, our energy networks have had the opportunity to recover from the demands…
When the JJJ Hottest 100 is even too much for millennials
Triple J’s annual Hottest 100 prides itself as the world’s largest music democracy, attracting more than a million votes with…
What’s woke this week?
This week’s woke epistle includes some Australia Day trashing in the guise of ABC investigative journalism, some good old-fashioned white…
The Wintour of our discontent
When it comes to fashion, one minute you’re talking about something and then next thing they’re talking about something else.…
How that roast leg of lamb celebrates the unsung heroes of the First Fleet
In Australia, the January 26 acknowledges the disembarkation of the First Fleet’s arrival, in 1788, at Port Jackson under the…
Why I celebrate Australia Day
I celebrate Australia Day because it’s who I am. I am Australian. My wife and kids are Australian. My neighbours,…
January 26: the least worst day for Indigenous Australians?
There is no doubt that Stone Age hunter and gatherer societies, having ruled the roost for hundreds of thousands of…
Three thoughts to guarantee a guilt-free Australia Day
A recent poll by the Institute of Public Affairs has shown that a mere 11 per cent of Australians want…
Let January 26 remain a day for all Australians
January 26, Australia Day, is a day for all Australians. It’s a day for being with friends, family and loved…
Shorten’s sop to the Left: a bung for the bureaucrats of the UN
You may have missed it in the Christmas rush, but opposition leader Bill Shorten proposes to quadruple taxpayer handouts to the United…
The Gospel according to Lady Gaga
Theologians come in all sorts of strange packages nowadays. No more bearded old guys in stuffy booklined offices it seems.…
Cricket needs a counter-reformation
The recent scandals and poor performance of Australia’s national team will quicken the quest for practical solutions. But the deeper…
The Aboriginal industry: a new religion?
Religion is an inescapable concept – everybody has a religion. Everybody has a basic set of assumptions about metaphysics, epistemology…
Wait a day, then comment
The mainstream media – let alone social media – are so good at generating instant outrage that I now have…
Sorry kids, but no socialism for you
Views that Australia will turn into a utopia under socialism are wildly uninformed, and John Quiggin’s already infamous Guardian piece…
