Flat White
“A curfew for men”, you say? A few questions…
Pretty much the entire population in Australia has had enough of the man bashing. They’ve had enough of the boiling…
Free speech Kiwi roadkill
It was frighteningly authoritarian when the Mayor of Auckland and former Kiwi Labour leader, Phil Goff, decreed by tweet on…
Fine dining with Lettuce and Lavender
Lettuce and Lavender wanted their friends to see their new home nestled amongst the tall gums at the base of…
Edmund Burke down under
Accepting the Edmund Burke Award in November 2016, John Howard paid homage to the eighteenth century Anglo-Irish statesman, remarking that…
Build our boys, guard our girls
As a high school youth pastor, I recently sat my boys down and we discussed Christian teaching as it related…
Gun lore
I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…
The big British babies bawling about Trump – and tantrum tyranny
It seems that one of the things which people on the left fear most is being taken over by some…
Who defends our defenders?
Last week Defence admitted former Lt Colonel Karel Dubsky was an innocent victim of the Jedi Council witchhunt that terminated…
The Australia Institute snubs the coal, hard facts
Advocacy is core business for think tanks, but when does advocacy become propaganda? When the think tank is the grandly…
How the ABC’s facile feminists boost the baser instincts
One of Australia’s least funny comedians, Tom Ballard, is at it again. No, not of being accused of sexual assault—a…
Gatecrashing the funeral for selfies
On June 18, Clementine Ford drip-fed some more man-hating nonsense to her brainwashed minions in an article for Fairfax Media. Done and…
Excuse me, but this consent strategy is bonkers
Drum roll… NSW’s new Sexual Assault Strategy has been released. Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Minister Pru Goward…
Fake news and appointing judges
I have made a point of reading dozens and dozens of different mainstream media accounts of the recent retirement of…
What’s Paris still worth?
In 1593 Henry of Navarre, a Protestant prince turned Catholic to win the French crown, supposedly remarked, “Paris is well…
Beware of Hamas hubba-hubba
Would you like to do some internet dating with Hamas? Associated Press has the story: The Israeli military said Tuesday it…
Their ABC “the most trusted news source”? Here’s a theory
It was Abraham Lincoln who said, ‘You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of…
Leave the high life of Canberra? Decentralisation push exposes bureaucratic hypocrisy
For just over a century, the public service has been building capital city monoliths to centralise power, decision-making and policy…
Hey, dudes, back off: a defence of millennials
I fully appreciate that millennials – “cossetted, pampered and spoiled” – deserve a good touch up. After all, I am…
WTO plain pack verdict a victory for criminals and nanny
Five years have passed since a coalition of tobacco-producing nations including Indonesia and Honduras challenged Australia’s world-first laws that prevent…
Lucky there’s no section 44 for the NSW parliament
This is very disturbing. Very disturbing indeed. Bob Carr has a hell of a lot to answer for, as today’s…
Is the string bag really a tool of repression?
Proponents of Utopian progress have devoted endless time to pursuits intent on discarding tradition, reality and practicality. Legacies of their…
Scarlett Johansson slammed because of, you know, diversity
If Hollywood had stuck to what it’s all about (making movies) rather than playing politics, Scarlett Johansson might have just…
Whatever happened to that same-sex marriage boom?
Now that all the glitter has settled after last year’s non-binding voluntary postal survey—remember, we couldn’t be trusted to have…
Rock and roll realpolitik
Welcome to world politics where, as the old song used to go, ‘It’s a little bit tyranny, a little bit…
The sprig of 4 July at the heart of our constitution
Most Australians would know that today, July 4, is the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of…
