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From West to East: shifting global power via Net Zero

21 December 2023 2:00 am

The 28th annual scourging of fossil fuel users, the Conference of Parties (COP28), has been and gone. Like the previous…

Godzilla Minus One: an absolute riot!

20 December 2023 2:24 pm

In 1954, Ishirō Honda released Gojira. The movie centres on Godzilla, a gigantic reptile that is brought to life after being…

A year of failure for Albanese and Labor

20 December 2023 12:27 pm

During the election campaign of 2022, one got the impression that Labor Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, didn’t take winning the…

The politics of envy

20 December 2023 11:54 am

One of the defining moments of the 2004 federal election was Mark Latham’s hit list of wealthy non-government schools and…

Science is a political dystopia

20 December 2023 5:00 am

There was a time when science was seen as the domain of the nerdy few. When the topic of careers…

‘Little Bird Bookshop… You can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!’

19 December 2023 3:10 pm

I had arrived at work on what I hoped would be one of the three busiest Saturdays of the year…

Victoria: rotten to the core

19 December 2023 1:27 am

The evidence is in. Victoria’s public service has become massively politicised, confirming what many suspected after nine years of Labor…

Albanese government: highest taxing since 1959!

19 December 2023 12:15 am

What I’m about to say is probably not fair, but I’ll say it anyway. When working in party politics, you…

The ABC: answerable to no one

18 December 2023 11:50 pm

Ad nauseam! That’s the constancy of calls for the ABC to be shut down, privatised, or restructured. The first two…

‘Awaiting the tsunami’: the danger of coercive control laws

18 December 2023 2:04 am

A few weeks ago, thousands took to the streets of Madrid to march on behalf of children’s rights, holding banners…

Walking the walk: what happened to the good old days?

18 December 2023 12:20 am

As an ‘Old Bushy’ who has a patriotic and passionate love of our country, its environment, its history, and the…

Postcard from Buenos Aires

18 December 2023 12:01 am

Wide awake at 3 am, in submission to the gods of jet lag, seemed an apt moment to jot down…

Rejecting the Queensland Climate Transition Bill

17 December 2023 8:54 pm

In March, Greens MP Michael Berkman introduced a Private Member’s Bill, the Queensland Climate Transition Bill 2023. The proposed legislation…

Shards of truth: the compatibility of farming and renewables projects

16 December 2023 11:20 pm

Up to one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural farmland could be destroyed by the industrial-scale solar panels and wind turbines

We’re back in the USSR

16 December 2023 11:00 pm

We have been handed a load of lies for many decades. I cannot tell which of them is the biggest,…

When the ice returns

16 December 2023 1:57 am

Earth is living in the latter days of the Holocene Warm Era. This is the latest short, fertile, warm interlude…

Yes, they profiled citizens according to compliance

15 December 2023 4:00 am

There has been an unexpected validation of the title of Our Enemy, the Government (Brownstone, 2023). In a stunning indictment…

Turning students into barely literate social justice warriors

14 December 2023 5:00 am

The recently released results of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) confirm yet again the significant and systemic…

Not exactly a ‘safe pair of hands’

14 December 2023 4:30 am

I’m not the first to point out the incredible disconnect of Team Albanese when it comes to our top judges,…

Single-sex schools – are they a thing of the past?

14 December 2023 4:00 am

Regensburg Cathedral School in Bavaria was founded in 975. For a thousand years, it only admitted male pupils. In 2022,…

After the Thalidomide apology, where is the Covid vaccine apology?

13 December 2023 4:00 am

What a difference 61 years makes. In November 1962, thalidomide was withdrawn from use in Australia but only now has…

Don’t welcome me to my country

13 December 2023 3:18 am

Shockingly, Australia Day festivities have been cancelled in London due to ‘sensitivities’! As a proud Australian, I believe that politicians…

Tammy Peterson: awareness of the transcendent

13 December 2023 3:09 am

Tammy Peterson is the wife of celebrated psychologist and co-founder of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), Jordan Peterson. Tammy…

The L Word – do no harm, take no shit

13 December 2023 2:49 am

Libertarian: noun –  ‘An advocate or supporter of a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market…

Is the RBA’s 2-3 per cent inflation target still being taken seriously?

12 December 2023 1:24 am

Promises need timeframes, otherwise they are just empty words. If your friend tells you they are doing a diet, you…