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“Progressive” ideas didn’t win Victoria, conservative ideas went missing

28 November 2018 7:32 am

I don’t believe for one moment that Daniel Andrew’s stunning election victory means Australians are converts to “progressive” politics. Does…

The EU’s anti-science laws hit here

27 November 2018 8:49 pm

Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that he’d be passing up the United Nations’ Migration pact on the basis that a global…

Caution: gay people crossing

27 November 2018 4:49 pm

First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures…

Bernardo Bertolucci and fake news

27 November 2018 1:18 pm

The great Italian film director, Bernardo Bertolucci died on Monday.  The bloke is hardly cold and the savages are already…

The surveillance state’s chameleons

27 November 2018 8:02 am

In the USA they are collaborators with the “deep state”. In Australia, they are champions of privacy. Global tech companies…

The Victorian Liberals caused their own catastrophe

26 November 2018 6:18 pm

Now the dust of last Saturday’s electoral bloodbath in Victoria is starting to settle, it’s time for some sober reflection. …

Give speech a chance

26 November 2018 12:25 pm

It’s time once again, good people, to take out your pen and paper (or your QWERTY keyboard and computer) and…

Both Labor and the Coalition threaten religious schools

26 November 2018 8:21 am

Religious schools may be fundamentally undermined by Commonwealth parliamentarians adopting flawed amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act in their admirable…

Victoria: the fallen mighty

25 November 2018 4:49 pm

Australia’s Baby Boomers cut their teeth on flourishing rivalries against a backdrop of dreams and aspirations, achievements being carved out…

How the state has killed sex

24 November 2018 1:49 pm

Earlier this week, the Tasmanian Parliament voted for new laws which: Make it ‘hate speech’ to not use someone’s preferred gender…

To blow on whom I please…

23 November 2018 6:02 pm

If I was to enter a bloke’s room, take off my clothes, massage his genitals, place his cock in my…

Victoria votes: Daniel Andrews re-election looms

23 November 2018 3:54 pm

With one day ago, published opinion polls indicate joy for Labor premier Daniel Andrews and despair for Liberal leader Matthew…

What’s going to happen to Malcolm’s great green elephant?

23 November 2018 3:54 pm

Canberra breeds many white elephants, but now they are breeding a gigantic new breed of pachyderm in Australia’s Snowy Mountains…

Australian schools: reading, writing and revolution

23 November 2018 1:47 pm

Revelations this week that schoolteacher Regina Wilson had vowed to “ensure that the next generation of voters in my classroom…

The week in misandry

23 November 2018 11:26 am

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. International Men’s…

Daniel Andrews: a threat to a twenty-first century economy

23 November 2018 9:09 am

Melbourne prides itself on its cafe culture, vibrant laneways, quality restaurants, and marquee sporting events. This dynamic and cosmopolitan lifestyle…

Their ABC’s latest magic pudding economics

22 November 2018 7:00 pm

You may be tempted to stop reading after the oxymoron “Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser”, but if you are as tolerant…

Loans are a wrong and risky way to help small business, Mr Treasurer

22 November 2018 2:01 pm

The Federal Government’s proposed $2 billion small business loan scheme is the wrong response to a real problem. The decline…

Inequality in education is about more than money

22 November 2018 11:45 am

Opponents of non-government schools often claim Australia’s school system is grossly inequitable. But this is not true. Multiple international OECD…

The one huge problem with multiculturalism

22 November 2018 9:09 am

The greatest enemy of migrants in Australia is a bad immigration policy; an immigration policy that generates anxiety and suspicion…

Is that Thanksgiving turkey “he”, “she” or “ze”?

21 November 2018 2:37 pm

Life imitates Portlandia: Proof positive: It’s time to buy your turkey. But this year, you can also read about your…

Labor’s energy deal: Shorten facts, but you’ll pay more

21 November 2018 12:03 pm

Sucked in by spurious claims of the loss of 99 per cent of all coral reefs, mounting natural disasters, a…

Why has Australia left Asia Bibi to the mercy of the mullahs?

21 November 2018 8:27 am

The case of Asia Bibi – the Pakistani Christian mother falsely accused by her Islamic female neighbours of blasphemy, but…

Journos are only human, so forgive us our press passes

20 November 2018 7:48 pm

Journalists are human. That is an undisputed fact, though many in Canberra – not necessarily politicians- regard them as the…

Mutti and Macron: a tragic tale of thwarted love

20 November 2018 4:45 pm

You probably thought it was not possible to accurately equate the relations between nation states with personal human relationships. That…