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What’s going on in the Victorian Liberals?
It seems that some in the Victorian division of the Liberal party want to lose elections more than win them.…
We don’t need right-wing comedy
There can be nothing more stupid than a demand for right-wing comedy. Nonetheless, towards the end of a recent Menzies…
A Wolf in wolf’s clothing
I was sitting at my desk, ruminating on what to make of the whole Michelle Wolf fiasco, when my 14-year-old…
Political life is horrible
Tim Hammond’s decision to quit the Australian parliament has been hailed an honourable and courageous one. With two young children,…
Why the voters gave Hillary poor Marx
What would Karl Marx (unhappy 200th birthday for next Saturday by the way, Beardo) think of a political party that…
Beware of overusing Indigenous business targets
The Indigenous business sector is booming. But recent calls for more targets to boost Aboriginal companies must be treated with…
Can war be just?
The recent furore over the use of “death iconography” by the current Chief of Army raises important questions as to…
Is ignorance spurring a slide to socialism?
The global Ipsos poll released today and published by Fairfax Media, entitled Attitudes towards Socialist Ideals in the 21st Century, shows…
Support for Lifeline waning over “toxic” Clementine Ford
A petition to have extremist feminist activist Clementine Ford removed as a speaker at a Lifeline hosted event is gathering…
A sugar tax is another attack on freedom and personal responsibility
Won’t somebody please think of the adults? If there’s one thing we know well in our great southern continent, it’s…
Are we really only kept afloat by immigration, mate?
It just seems like a year ago that Scott Morrison handed down the Commonwealth budget and brought joy and early…
The rise and rise of intolerance
How can anyone watch the debate on anti-Semitism in the House of Commons and not wonder at the madness that…
No, Four Corners, Brown Brothers is not moving to Tasmania
When the ABC ran its Four Corners program on climate change some weeks back, it had as its theme farmers,…
Cut the losses on Gonski 2.0 review and quietly back away
You have to feel just a little bit sorry for Simon Birmingham. The federal education minister was effectively shoe-horned into…
Mental health: the Gillard effect
When Julia Gillard beamed as she took over Beyond Blue, collective Aussie jaws hit the floor. Could lefty elites really…
A Corbyn in the capital’s ALP?
Last week in affluent, well-educated, politely spoken, avowedly Labor and impeccably PC Canberra, someone wrote something in a small throwaway…
God and man (and emotional support animals) at Yale
The Yale News reports (yes, Yale, not kale): If you walked into the Grace Hopper College courtyard last year, you…
Never mind the bollards
I am from Melbourne and I am a bollard lover following the 12 Steps Program to recovery. Since last year’s…
Cook’s contribution to civilisation
In a decision that will send many of the Left fleeing to the nearest safe place—i.e. Twitter—to find solace against…
What happens when the government decides you should die?
There is currently no greater example of a government that has become too big for its people, than the case…
Their ABC: what a joke
You know that things over at the ABC are getting really desperate when they give people like Tom Ballard—Australia’s most…
NDIS: When will the other shoe drop?
In announcing today that — way hey! — the Turnbull government now has a revenue windfall to fully fund the…
Incel and the perilous politics of terrorism
Incel: if you hadn’t heard of this alarming group before the horrendous Toronto attack, you will surely have heard about…
The tax cuts menu
With the Turnbull government raising expectations of personal income tax cuts in the forthcoming budget, the question is whether it…
Unions, change yourself first
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has launched the national unions’ pre-election Change the Rules campaign with the ambition to be the…
