Flat White
For real Scomentum, drain the billabong
Our political class are being seen more and more as arrogant and as out of touch as the French aristocracy…
Hell hath no fury like…
‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Or so Lord Byron said – and if anyone would know, it’s…
We need nukes
As Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies at ANU, has been telling us over the last few years, the world…
Michael Moore bombs
Trump Derangement Syndrome is flourishing on the bestseller lists – Bob Woodward’s Fear, anyone – but not so much on the…
Budget (almost) balanced; now for the vote buying
One of the rituals of the federal Budget cycle is the release of a final budget outcome for the preceding…
All deaths in custody matter
I’m horrified to see sensible people I know organising prayer vigils for “Aboriginal deaths in custody”. This is alarmingly gullible…
Deep State Downer, the Foreign Minister, the PM — and the Clinton campaign
If there is one thing that a variety of media provides, it is diversity of detail and greater transparency. That…
Pill testing will save lives
The recent fatalities at the Defqon.1 music festival have spurred renewed calls to allow pill testing and a growing chorus…
Malcolm’s suit
The first thing I noticed was Malcolm’s suit. Immaculately dressed at those daily pre-coup press conferences most days he seemed…
Ten reasons why having children is a good idea
The NHS Trust in the town of Walsall, east of Birmingham in what was once the heart of Britain’s industrial…
No hot Halloween Handmaids for you
You all know of course by now that you can’t appropriate other cultures’ artefacts, but did you know you also can’t…
The Age of sectarian bigotry
When that Serena Williams cartoon appeared, The Age was deeply offended. One of its ragtag crew of perpetually po-faced columnists,…
Bring back those dark, satanic mills
Once upon a time – actually, not that long ago, think the seventies — we actually had reasonably good, working…
Australia, the public sector workers’ paradise
How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you…
Will we hear of political bullying that doesn’t fit the Fairfax/ABC agenda?
While Australian federal politics remains discombobulated about alleged bullying in the parliamentary Liberal party, across the Ditch there’s been an…
The week in the world of MISANDRY
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – because it’s all about women. The joke…
Are renewables more or less expensive? Er…
Is renewable electricity cheaper than coal? A recent article by Stephen Long for the ABC had the tag-line, “The tipping…
Smart move to keep smartphones out of classrooms
Smartphones have become a big educational talking point. This year, the French government banned the use of mobile phones in schools, while…
Will we follow the EU’s attacks on web freedom?
The European Parliament’s decision to approve two articles in the name of copyright protection sets a worrying precedent for our…
Boys won’t be boys
In the Oxford dictionary, the word ‘erasure’ is defined as: The act of removing or destroying something. (Synonyms of erasure…
Sorry Yassmin, but the market for Muslim moaners just got more crowded
It seems that the “young Muslim refugee woman with head covered who bags her adopted country and gets lionised for…
Do you feel triggered, snowflake?
The 2018 university environment is held hostage by political correctness and an Orwellian sense of authoritarianism and censorship. The long-purported…
Hunt finally sees sense on vaping
It took a while, but yesterday there was a strange burst of rationality from the ship of fools also known…
Red shoes, chat groups and #MeToo blinkers
Apparently at some point while many of us were expecting politicians to be running the country they were busying themselves…
Aussie breasts spoil Deutsche fest
Is it still cultural appropriation when we do it to the people responsible for World Wars I and II? Whatever: Oktoberfest,…
