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The NAPLAN nervous ninnies
NAPLAN results are out and high gain schools are receiving their just recognition. Yet, critics are calling for a review…
“I’d like to ask a question not about women”
Fast-forward several years there will be no men allowed in National Press Club: rampant sexism will mean it’s simply not…
More hot air on climate change from the ABC
Australian politicians, and the media they fund have been throwing their hands in the air and screaming unprecedented climate change…
Glitter bombs, smashed equipment, condom balloons and respectful free speech at Sydney University
“I think that ultimately a stall like this has no place in a university. This is supposed to be a…
If you want a politician, get a dog
Down in Melbourne we have unleashed Dog Man. The controversial bronze statue by Australian artists Gillie and Marc that upset…
Should people with ‘addictions’ be euthanased?
For all those who don’t think that the “slippery slope” argument is valid, just consider this. In Belgium and the…
Is it the ABC or A Current Affair?
Forget the old “Is it butter or margarine? I just can’t tell!” We’ve got a new test for you. Is…
The Snowy scam, the Donald and death of Australian industry
It seemed too good to be true: Snowy being bought by the Commonwealth from state governments in what appeared as…
A nice night’s entertainment: Kill Climate Deniers
Just two generations back, in the 1960s, mainstream Australian society shunned both unmarried pregnant women and also homosexuals. They were…
The Donald of la dolce vita
It is a historical fact little remarked upon nowadays, but for much of the last quarter century, Italy has been…
Let’s be kind to Dobbin and send him to a knackery
It’s a scene all Melbourne residents will recognise; the clip-clop of horse-drawn carriages going by, the sight of red-coats, top…
Mardi Gras: coming soon to a shoppingtown near you
Long before the floats paraded down Sydney’s Oxford Street, Maxi Shield and her ‘Queens’ were prancing through Pitt Street Mall.…
Michaelia Cash: no credit
Last year I was invited to a private fundraising dinner for a backbench Liberal senator featuring then minister for employment,…
Marriage a la mode and how infidelity became everyday
Marriage as an institution has changed greatly since the introduction of no-fault divorce in 1975. Quite apart from the recent…
Gender politics or progress? Your choice
At some point, gender politics is going to have to calmly take a seat and let progress actually prevail. On…
The politics is proven, but is the science?
Work conducted by highly respected NASA scientist Roy Spencer estimates a maximum increase of 1.54°C in global temperatures from greenhouse gases, less than half that…
The real problem with Michaelia’s Cash outburst
Oops. Michaelia Cash committed the cardinal sin. She dropped the façade fem-folk have worked hard to concoct, that women are…
Emma Alberici scores top Marx
If you’ve been holidaying in Greece and missed the recent fiasco surrounding Emma Alberici, the chief economics correspondent at the…
The Guardian’s begging bowl blitz
Ever since The Guardian set up shop locally Australians have been treated to the excitement of a media outlet that…
Silent – or stealth – invasion
The first jolt for readers of Clive Hamilton’s polemic new book ‘Silent Invasion – China’s Influence in Australia’ is the…
Economics in one lesson
Just over 70 years ago, economist Henry Hazlitt wrote an economics textbook, Economics in One Lesson, which is still regarded…
The great immigration deceit
Shortly after Angela Merkel’s nation-shaping decision to allow over a million migrants to enter Germany in 2015, her ministerial team…
Academic doesn’t hate Israel enough shock horror fury
More tragi-comedy from the letters section of that perpetual yearbook of the Class of 1968 (Head Boy – Tariq Ali), The London…
Threats of Aboriginal terrorism will do irreparable harm
Most Australians are pretty generous. They want to do the right thing by this country’s first inhabitants, especially when it…
Recycling is rubbish
Recycling is rubbish. Not in the sense that the stuff we recycle is rubbish – which it is, of course…
