Flat White
The lost soul of western civilisation
Well, the wedding of the year has come and gone. The pomp and pageantry is starting to fade. And the…
Hastie wasn’t hasty but right on time
When the Member for Canning, Andrew Hastie, rose last week to warn, under parliamentary privilege, of the encroachment on Australian…
The battle of Kokoda
Editor’s note: After publishing the Charlie Lynn article Losing Kokoda on May 14, we received a letter in response from…
Sally McManus finds her inner capitalist
It would probably be hard-pressed to think of anyone you know who voluntarily paid more taxes than they’re required. And…
An unprecedented attack on faith and freedom defeated
The advancement of religion has been recognised as a charitable purpose in the common law since at least 1601. Australian…
Yassmin confirms she’s a narcissist
There is pretentious, and then there is Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Writing for The Guardian, she proudly escalates narcissism to a whole…
The good girl lie
Society likes to package female sexuality in a conservative and sanitized way. Women are portrayed as demure creatures incapable of…
White flight: it’s real
New South Wales Labor leader Luke Foley does not deserve to be publicly executed for speaking truthfully. The criticism against…
How safe is your house from confiscation?
People regularly talk about things being “as safe as houses” and the great Australian dream of owning your own home…
Block, unblock
A fascinating court decision regarding The Donald and the First Amendment. The Verge reports: It is unconstitutional for public officials, including…
Want to lower power costs? Sell the whole damned lot off
Electricity networks have recently come under fire from the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) for allegedly passing on unnecessary costs to…
Young, restless and right-wing
My millennial generation is a strange machine. Some years ago, the New York Times described us as having “a sense…
It’s not just tax and spend but tax and lie
If Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull were corporate CEOs, they’d be done for misleading and deceptive conduct. They claim that…
Senator Sea Patrol’s spectacular
God bless her. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young must still be feeling the effects of the celebrations after she (just) retained the…
Our sheepish Liberal little lambs
You may have noticed an outpouring of profound grief for the thousands of sheep that died while on their way…
Don’t ban donations, ban donations from crooks
“It’s the Bjelke-Petersen era again,” is the meme every time a centre-right party moots a policy on just about anything…
Love in the time of austerity
It’s usually the stranger, the foreigner, who see a nation’s flaws, fears and foibles more clearly than the natives. Think…
Liddell is just part of a bigger battle
Like a border skirmish that develops into a global conflagration, John Howard’s policy to require “two per cent additional energy”…
Stacking all decks
At a very early age in a budding politician’s career, they learn how to stack; not as children with a…
Who’s going to call out the reverse sexism deniers?
Round and round in lopsided circles they twirl. The loopy, loony left have absolutely no idea what true equality looks…
Christmas, no – but happy, happy Ramadan
The Australian Greens like to troll the conservatives around the time of religious holidays. It’s all good and harmless fun,…
Energy policy as shameful as the Soviet’s
“I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the…
Time to drain the China lobby swamp
“Where have all the grown-ups gone when it comes to China policy?” exclaimed Geoff Raby last year, in a newspaper…
The Arrogant Broadcasting Corporation
It seems that Emma Alberici, the ABC’s chief economic correspondent, has just been schooled. According to The Australian, Alberici proceeded…
Gaza’s slide into violence, poverty and despair
Sustained violence in protests along a series of staging points on the Gazan border with Israel has been deliberately orchestrated…
