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Dear Chris Bowen – a New Year’s letter

2 January 2024 4:00 am

Stop enduring those night sweats, Mr Bowen … fear not! CO2 is safe. It’s welcome. I write to you openly…

Power on, livelihoods off

2 January 2024 4:00 am

While some companies are set to gain millions of dollars, other individuals fear they will lose hundreds of thousands of…

Christianity in decline

1 January 2024 3:00 am

It is platitudinal to claim that Christian religions in Australia are in decline. Indeed, for several years, Christianity has been…

Space junk

1 January 2024 2:00 am

Like space junk in the stratosphere, the Western fiction-sphere is increasingly cluttered by a vast cloud of unfinished stories. This…

Bid to exclude Trump from 2024 primaries raises grave constitutional concerns

1 January 2024 1:00 am

The 2024 presidential election is already proving to be a breeding ground for controversy, with states taking an audacious step…

Michelle 2024?

30 December 2023 2:37 am

David Axelrod is America’s smartest political strategist on the left. He has an impressive track record in backing longshots who…

A teetotal Parliament House?

30 December 2023 2:01 am

Christmas seems a good time to bring up alcohol. Having recently moved to Manly, I am now living near the…

Barossa ban risks turning Australia into a trade pariah

29 December 2023 12:02 pm

Australia has a hard-won reputation as a reliable trading partner throughout our region, but without serious red tape reduction, and…

The government’s censorship agenda is out in the open

27 December 2023 10:11 pm

The federal government has previously maintained that its proposed misinformation laws would not allow the government to censor the internet.…

It’s the narrative, stupid!

27 December 2023 9:36 pm

The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the ‘power of a narrative’. The mass of people caught up in…

The energy Grinch

27 December 2023 2:06 pm

Just before Christmas, the CSIRO presented the government with an analysis in support of their beliefs that wind and solar…

Failing Israel in its darkest hour

27 December 2023 12:55 pm

At 6.29 am on October 7, nearly 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded the State of Israel unleashing one of the most…

Seduced by communism

27 December 2023 12:04 am

The communistic approach, which underpins much of the West’s ‘good people/bad people’ political thought, is right – the haves are…

Peter Dutton’s Christmas message: we live in the best country in the world

24 December 2023 3:35 pm

Australians will be looking forward to this Christmas; 2023 has been a year of hardships at home and adversity abroad.…

There you go. I said it. ‘Christmas!’

23 December 2023 9:04 pm

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. There you go. I said it. ‘Christmas!’ Isn’t it strange how…

Carols by Candlelight: a true Australian tradition

23 December 2023 6:00 pm

The tradition of Carols by Candlelight in Australia finds its roots intertwined with the arrival of the Cornish Methodist miners…

Merry Wokemas

23 December 2023 5:33 pm

‘Rejoice in the birth of a brown-skinned, Middle-Eastern, undocumented immigrant.’ You might have seen this message around the place in…

Is Wikipedia struggling to maintain neutrality in times of political unrest?

23 December 2023 5:00 am

In the realm of social media, Wikipedia isn’t a platform that comes to mind. It isn’t thought to possess hate…

A victory for commonsense!

23 December 2023 2:00 am

In a win for commonsense, education ministers across the country have recently signed off on measures requiring universities to include…

Volcanoes, another end-of-the-world scenario

22 December 2023 10:52 pm

Those who think we can control the power of nature are deluded. The latest threat comes from Iceland. After a…

Swimming between the Woke flags

22 December 2023 2:00 am

One of the things that makes Australia so great is the fact that more than a quarter of Australians aged…

1.5 degrees of idiocy

22 December 2023 12:07 am

There is not a lot of rigour in the COP process. This year’s extravaganza has predictably produced a platitudinous wish…

Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad thanks Australia

21 December 2023 10:04 pm

Ghazi Hamad, leader of the terror group Hamas, appears to have warmly welcomed Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister…

The yellow bus to nowhere

21 December 2023 8:19 pm

The middle Melbourne rail loop – Cheltenham to Box Hill for starters – will go on through the west and…

Cyclones, dunnies, and a belated confession

21 December 2023 1:41 pm

As far north Queensland mops up after the flooding and mayhem largely resulting from unpreparedness in the wake of Cyclone…