Flat White
Life’s too short to battle public health puritans – I’m over it
When I’m not compiling the Morning Double Shot email, or talking on the radio, my professional role is as a…
Clover Moore’s ‘Blak power’ New Year’s Eve fireworks (for kids?)
The ABC has been dragged from one end of social media to the other after the appallingly political and nauseatingly…
The haunting certainties of Australian Digital ID
Of what can we be certain regarding the two Digital ID Bills opened by our federal government to public comment…
King Charles vs Ayn Rand
Is it only the political movement of Climate Change in which we need to be wary of King Charles III,…
Cyclones are not evidence of a climate apocalypse
The damage from recent Cyclone Jasper has taken many, including the Bureau of Meteorology, by surprise. The failure to predict…
Dear Chris Bowen – a New Year’s letter
Stop enduring those night sweats, Mr Bowen … fear not! CO2 is safe. It’s welcome. I write to you openly…
Power on, livelihoods off
While some companies are set to gain millions of dollars, other individuals fear they will lose hundreds of thousands of…
Christianity in decline
It is platitudinal to claim that Christian religions in Australia are in decline. Indeed, for several years, Christianity has been…
Space junk
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
The 2024 presidential election is already proving to be a breeding ground for controversy, with states taking an audacious step…
Michelle 2024?
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?
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
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
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!
The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the ‘power of a narrative’. The mass of people caught up in…
The energy Grinch
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
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
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
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!’
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
The tradition of Carols by Candlelight in Australia finds its roots intertwined with the arrival of the Cornish Methodist miners…
Merry Wokemas
‘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?
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!
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
Those who think we can control the power of nature are deluded. The latest threat comes from Iceland. After a…
