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World, welcome to the middle-classes
While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh, whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was and the ramblings of…
How the Greens power plan would leave you in the red
One of the under-reported stories to come out of last week was Greens leader Richard Di Natale’s address at the…
MBT: Malcolm Boycott Turnbull?
In the annals of Test cricket, there’s never been a cricketer as self-centred, single-minded and selfish as English batsman Geoffrey…
Chinese eyes, Five Eyes
The ABC’s China correspondent, Mathew Carney, recently delivered a chilling report on mass surveillance in communist China, Leave no dark…
Brett Kavanaugh and the #MeToo inquisition
One particular aspect that has been repeatedly overlooked—yes, I’m referring to you Huffington Post—throughout the whole judicial fiasco involving the…
The victimhood Olympics
When you don’t have real stories; when your “journalists” aren’t experienced or credible enough to get real stories — or…
Climate catastrophe: an update from Tim Flannery
It’s my fault. I should not have been browsing The Guardian Australian website. There I was, minding my own business,…
Enid Lyons: the speech of the nightingale
In one of his many colourful metaphors, Prime Minister Billy Hughes once described Australia’s first female Federal parliamentarian as “like…
Their ABC exposed, implodes
The GayBC has become a creature of its own imagination. Observing incandescent staff delight from its far-right commentators – Phillip Adams, Barry…
We can’t even get the Australia Day we have already right
Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie is only the latest politician to mistakenly suggest that Australia Day celebrates the arrival of Captain…
Sex, sexual harassment, and those left wing lunatic women
It seems that sex is on everyone’s mind these days. There is, of course, that great free intercourse provider, otherwise…
Daniel Andrews’ free speech protection racket
The Victorian Police’s decision to issue a bill to the promoters of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s speech event in…
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…
