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Australia should cop out of COP-24
Prime Minister Morrison should make no new commitments at the COP24 climate-fest this week in Poland. We do not trust…
The new Big Day Out
Hi mum, just got back from the Parliament House climate change protest. Protesting is just like Schoolies Week with lots…
Why the New Testament shouldn’t come with trigger warnings
Demands for the New Testament and Koran to contain alerts in the margins of those passages that have been used…
Tinker, tailor, soldier, Mr Harbourside Mansion?
George Papadopoulos has gone to gaol, it seems, for lying to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Scott Morrison is going into…
It’s time the Tattersalls president stood up for equal rights for men
Revolution is brewing in Brisbane’s venerable Tattersalls Club, but it’s not about letting in women. In fact, the revolution is…
Liberals note: conservative does not mean reactionary
Congratulations to Dan Andrews and Labor on a very strong result. Their ability to campaign effectively should never be underestimated…
Your social credit has been declined
I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but…
Apocalypse not
I have read that Pope Francis believes that climate change is such a big danger to the planet that it could turn…
Derryn Hinch’s public sex offenders register would be outrageous
In the wake of last weekend’s Victorian State election, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (probably with four shiny Upper House seats)…
After Victoria, Liberals still have the values and the ideas to win
Another Victorian election, and another Liberal loss, leaving the state with a financially profligate and socially radical government in near…
Ten reasons why Imran Khan’s theology is just not cricket
Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, caused controversy recently when he said in a speech celebrating the anniversary of…
“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…