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Will the EU do to Britain what it did to Greece?
With less than six weeks remaining until the March 29 deadline for Britain to exit the EU, the likelihood of…
Donald Trump. Worst. Homophobe. Evah.
Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay…
Laugh at Trump and Fat Boy Kim, but we’ve got plenty riding on Hanoi
Fatty Kim III. Trust the Chinese to come up with an amusing nickname for Kim Jong-Un. This bizarre figure will…
Pawns take Bishop
Julie Bishop has pulled the plug on her political career. The effusion of love in the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon,…
What’s so good about transgender toilets?
It seems that simply posing the above question can—at least potentially—get you into some serious trouble these days. But it’s…
The problem with ‘hate speech’ laws
When Facebook posts lead to Federal Court proceedings, a parliamentary inquiry, and a bankruptcy, something has gone seriously wrong with…
ISIS MILFs* want back in
In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a…
How Cuba pulls Venezuela’s strings
Last month, when the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, was briefly detained by Maduro’s intelligence agents less than 48 hours…
Brexit: a distortion of democracy
The Brits have been left out to dry in a lousy Brexit process. Last week, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called…
A plaintive twilight swansong
The retiring member for Lilley didn’t actually whistle The Red Flag during his parliamentary swansong, though there were dog whistles…
What’s woke this week?
The wokerati are always against something. It’s their raison d’être after all. From the pointy-fingered moral high ground of their…
Socialism: a Millennial religion?
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it, as George Santayana once said. Slightly before him, Karl Marx claimed…
Identity politics devours its own
Former tennis legend, Martina Navratilova, now understands just how ‘nasty’ those who champion identity politics can actually be. The whole…
The Paladin contract non-conspiracy
Government tenders are fraught with risks that most citizens fail to grasp. On the face of it there are aspects…
Why won’t we admit it: women commit domestic violence too
Males are generally the perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence and women are generally the victims of domestic and sexual…
Put company tax cuts back on the table
If Scott Morrison wants any chance at re-election, he can’t simply stay on the backfoot, opposing Labor’s shameless tax hikes…
The queer case of Jussie Smollett and postmodern victimhood
Remember when Bill Shorten was caught out lying on national television about having personally witnessed the homophobic posters, “Stop the…
They say it as if debate was a bad thing
Sorry. More Jordan Peterson — but we know you love him like those middle-aged, professional St Kilda dads who still…
Sub snafus and other technical traumas
Sometimes you feel like screaming when hit with that sinking feeling that our politician’s obligation to their voters is often…
Take responsibility for your life
Prominent intellectual and speaker Jordan Peterson’s current Australian tour could well be the first time many millennials have heard a…
The myths of the Murray
Over the past century, the Murray Darling river’s naturally highly irregular flows have been transformed to convert it into the…
Married at First Sight and the unkindness of strangers
Critics ask, ‘why MAFS’ – and it is certainly a polarising topic. This take, for example: ‘Fucking hard hitting journalism…
The green-left war on God becomes a poll fight
One of the things that the Left hates the most is religion. And unfortunately, New South Wales Labor contains a…
Doctors are doctors, not philosopher kings
Doctors swear on the Hippocratic Oath that they will “first do no harm”, yet they pay little attention to the…
Switching off a nation: no-coal Germany
In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds…
