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Where did 50 billion dollars go?
50 billion dollars… It’s money we spend to achieve a capable defence force every year. We are supposed to get…
Double Shot S2E2: Climate change on trial… Kerry Wakefield, Ralph Schoellhammer, and Daniel Wild
Kerry Wakefield brings us the latest on the Mark Steyn trial where climate science has gone under the microscope and…
Does Albo’s backflip really make you better off?
Anthony Albanese has backflipped on his promise to deliver the stage three tax cuts in full. He has proposed a…
Misunderstanding ‘excellence’
The Sydney (Patronising) Film Festival has introduced ‘the world’s largest cash prize for Indigenous filmmaking’ at $35,000. My heart sank at…
Plucking the income goose
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s celebrated Finance Minister, is reported to have said, ‘The act of taxation consists in so plucking…
In praise of carbon dioxide
‘The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide abundance in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so…
Power to the people: the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables
One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, spoke at the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables on the lawn in front of Parliament House in…
Spotlight on the International Criminal Court
As both parties claim vindication following the ICJ ruling – less known are the important efforts of French human rights…
The war against merit strikes its lowest chord yet, thanks to the London Philharmonic Orchestra
By now, my readers should know that the one thing I like to do more than write words is write…
Woke is revoked
The mass awakening against leftism has begun
Week in 60 Minutes S2E2: Argentina is teaching the West liberty! Nick Hossack, Kevin Andrews, and Julie Sladden
Nick Hossack applauds Argentina’s President, Javier Milei, for his World Economic Forum speech which was a serious discussion on the…
The shameful trade of women and children: Why there’s no place for Alex Greenwich’s regressive surrogacy reforms in NSW
This week, New South Wales is set to debate Independent MP Alex Greenwich’s Equality Legislation Amendment (LGBTIQA+) Bill 2023, a…
Designer sickies and other madness
The new Enterprise Agreement at the University of Queensland is special but a typical example of the genre: designer sickies.…
OpenDAEN: making sense of the TGA’s Covid adverse event reports
It was a dinner table conversation imprinted in my memory. The date: September 2021. Topic: Covid injections. Discussion: robust. With…
Ethnicity and crime
The internet is currently awash with the video of four youths of Somali/Sudanese appearance leaving a car. Police want to…
About Western whataboutery
I recently saw an ad for an anti-Israel protest in Christchurch, New Zealand. Alongside a picture of the Palestinian flag,…
Conservative polemics – a new dawn?
A superior weapon is of no use if you do not know how to wield it. In a debate, the…
Was cost a factor in the senseless deaths of three US soldiers?
Recall Gen George Patton’s reported exhortation to his troops in Africa in 1943, about winning a war ‘by making some…
The writer with an incurable wound
‘They were seated in the boat, Nick in the stern, his father rowing. The sun was coming up over the…
Alexandra Marshall LIVE S2E1: Norman Fenton & Rachael Wong
Mathematician and UK political commentator Professor Norman Fenton became a freedom celebrity during the Covid saga. He sits down for…
Brace yourself
RBA meeting intervals have been extended to take place every 6 weeks, with 8, as opposed to 12, now occurring…
Hamas’ horrifying summer camp musical
Lights, music, guns! Dozens of school children run out, armed with prop assault weapons enact a choreographed assault against imaginary…
Calvin Robinson won’t be cancelled from Australian Christian conference
Dr Gavin Ashendon was the Queen of England’s personal chaplain from 2008 until he resigned from the progressively wokeifying Church…
Delenda est Australia
Cato the Elder’s rhetorical phrase comes to mind when reflecting on the present sorry state of Australia. The left’s propaganda…
Post-Davos, Argentina’s Milei holds the Libertarian line: ‘There’s no plan B’
Post-Davos, Javier Milei’s Libertarian plan for Argentina hasn’t changed. As suspicious as any association with the shady World Economic Forum makes politicians…
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