Flat White
“Perhaps even more unsettling…”
Barry Humphries gave an interview to this august journal just last week where he had some unkind things to say…
Downer, the Democrats and the Donald
It can be difficult for us Australians at this distance to understand the Democratic Party’s obsession with Donald Trump; especially…
Things go better with God
If I said to you that research suggests Greens voters recycle more than the average Australian, would you be surprised?…
Dear Obama, please sit down and join Clinton
Anyone who thinks the Tony Abbott is the worst recurring nightmare to a new leader should take a look stateside.…
Their really unbiased ABC
Paul Bongiorno writes for Saturday as well as being an ABC Radio National commentator on politics and cultural affairs. Very…
I only buy it to line the budgie cage…
We live in an era where journalism has been traduced by its practitioners to such a degree nothing should surprise…
Plain packaging a graphic study in failure
Twelve years since they were introduced and nearly six years since branding and logos were removed from cigarette packets, we…
Science ain’t all that
Hey, I like science just as much as the next guy. But I recognise that science has its limits. While…
Doing God
It was interesting to learn from Greg Sheridan in The Weekend Australian that there are some religious people in the Parliament.…
Free speech now carries a hefty price tag
What happened to Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux in Melbourne over the weekend is a potent example of how free…
It’s all child’s play for Sarah Hanson-Young
Bad move SHY, bad move. Sarah Hanson-Young decided it would be a good idea to put her 11-year-old daughter on…
They still have to eat their broccoli, but are free to choose their sex
Exciting news on the gender front. NBC News discovers a new trend: Shhhhhh, I’ll let you in on a little secret:…
Post-modern conservatism? Yes, it’s a thing
The other day I was notified about a recent Spectator Australia article by Andrew Urban mocking a recent piece I…
The Big Public Health donkeys
Public health Pooh-Bah bullies are at it again. With the Victorian and federal elections heaving into sight, this week a…
The NSW Liberals destroy themselves along with the nation
Well done, New South Wales Liberals, well done. You weren’t content with sentencing the people of NSW to years under…
Immigration: the issue that won’t go away
With Australia’s population set to hurtle past the 25 million mark in August – decades earlier than predicted – there…
A new front for the left’s war on effort and achievement
Selective public schools across the country have again come under fire for their success as opponents claim they inflict ‘brain…
Thank you, Ms Ford – if you’ve finished
For feminists like Clementine Ford, it seems that absolutely everything is about gender, even when the evidence tells a different…
Annastacia Palaszczuk and the merchants of death
In 2016-7 former Labor MP and independent Rob Pyne proposed radical liberalisation of Queensland’s abortion laws as a private member’s…
Sorry Scott, but the GST fight isn’t over
It is a safe rule of thumb to assume that whenever a minister or a bureaucrat says “no one will…
Show me the honey shot
Those fighting this imaginary battle for women’s rights really need to sit down for a chat to discuss strategy. Their…
The enduring appeal of African gangs
There are some political issues that have a peculiar ability to remain topical over many news cycles, interest slowly waning…
Pro-choice or pro-privileged, middle-class, hysterical women?
Queensland’s white, privileged ALP Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk emerge from her very working class electorate of Inala, to tell one of…
Well, this is trans-parently ridiculous
Goddammit, she’s buckled. Scarlett Johansson has pulled out of her role as a transgender character in upcoming movie Rub and…
Sustainability: it’s not climate science
For a couple of decades now, climate-change has been more than a scientific theory. It is a political battlefield. Each…
