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“Progressive” ideas didn’t win Victoria, conservative ideas went missing
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Religious schools may be fundamentally undermined by Commonwealth parliamentarians adopting flawed amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act in their admirable…
Victoria: the fallen mighty
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
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…
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
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?
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
Revelations this week that schoolteacher Regina Wilson had vowed to “ensure that the next generation of voters in my classroom…
The week in misandry
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
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
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
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
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
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”?
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
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?
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
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
You probably thought it was not possible to accurately equate the relations between nation states with personal human relationships. That…