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Balls: women don’t have them, and neither does Pesutto

22 March 2023 4:00 am

I was so close to writing a good news story about cancel culture. There have been many examples of bravery…

Pesutto has doomed the Victorian Liberal Party

21 March 2023 10:56 am

The Liberal Party is doomed. It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s the only way to understand the decision by John Pesutto,…

What’s left of our cultural inheritance?

21 March 2023 6:00 am

Though it may come as a surprise to a postmodernist, 3,000 years of Western history offers some viable solutions to…

Failure on the horizon

21 March 2023 5:00 am

The consequence of Daniel Andrews’ constitutional ban on gas is about to catch up with Victoria’s energy supply, to the…

Muddle Land: creating an unsolvable mess

21 March 2023 4:00 am

Drawn in Magic Marker and selling over 100 million copies since the 1970s, Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men characters overcome their…

Let Women Speak event hijacked: clowns to the left of Moira, Nazis to the right

20 March 2023 1:15 pm

John Pesutto advised Moira Deeming on Sunday night that her position in the Victorian Parliamentary Party was untenable after she…

Moira Deeming should not be expelled

20 March 2023 12:29 pm

John Pesutto has declared his intention to expel Moira Deeming from her position as a member of the parliamentary Liberal…

Chimeras: the monsters of man

20 March 2023 7:00 am

In 2021, under the cover of Covid, scientists from China, Spain, and America created embryos that shared human and macaque…

The Christian vote is searching for a home

20 March 2023 6:00 am

In this final week of the upcoming NSW State election, there is still much angst amongst Christians on how best…

The Melbourne art scene: diluted mediocrity

20 March 2023 5:00 am

The building is ugly and the inside is confusing. There are people everywhere and you have to look around for…

Australia’s erosion of informed consent and the avoidable death of children

20 March 2023 4:00 am

Deception can be lethal. The last three years of Covid have taught us that. Adding to the pile of disconcerting…

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price speaks at the Mannkal Foundation’s Emerging Leaders event

19 March 2023 6:00 am

Renowned Indigenous leader, activist, and politician, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, gave the keynote address for the Mannkal Foundation’s Annual Emerging…

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has restored my faith in Hollywood

19 March 2023 5:00 am

A few years ago, if you were to tell me that a sequel story about a retired swashbuckling cartoon cat…

Changing tides: a return to Australia’s shipping industry

19 March 2023 4:00 am

From 1851, paddle steamers could transport up to 2,000 bales of wool along the Murray River, with engines that were…

The rise of the Fifth Estate

18 March 2023 7:00 am

In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly.…

Power policy in parallel universes

18 March 2023 5:00 am

This year Daniel Westerman will become a well-known if not much-loved public figure. In his role as the energy czar…

You won’t hear these statistics on International Women’s Day

18 March 2023 4:00 am

International Women’s Day (IWD) came and went, with morning teas and combative speeches. We heard about unconscious bias, injustice, imposter…

The coercive control con job

17 March 2023 4:38 pm

Tomorrow, when NSW Attorney General Mark Speakman visits early voting centres in his local electorate, he’ll be in for an…

Alan Jones: Perrottet’s spending spree fails our children

17 March 2023 1:55 pm

Either the media in NSW have gone to sleep, or I am inhabiting another planet. I worked for a Liberal…

The Voice: undermining democracy and empowering the elite

17 March 2023 6:00 am

A constitutionally enshrined uniquely Aboriginal organisation will do nothing to solve the ongoing problems of marginalisation and social dysfunction in…

Memes: the road to collectivism

17 March 2023 5:00 am

As politics becomes increasingly polarised, policymakers are no longer focused on giving voters what they want, but on making voters…

The fallacy of equity: South Africa’s warning to the West

17 March 2023 4:00 am

What do rolling blackouts, public disorder, and impending societal collapse in South Africa, have to do with the contemporary preoccupations…

Calling it what it is: voluntary assisted tragedy

16 March 2023 5:30 am

Canada’s government has been tussling with the idea of providing voluntary euthanasia for those with mental health issues.  This poses…

Masking science with politics in the Covid era

16 March 2023 5:00 am

The release of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages in the ‘Lockdown files’ has been an eye-opener for many who are now…

Super betrayal: it’s not a tax on the rich, it’s a tax on the young

16 March 2023 4:30 am

Throughout my twenty years as a financial planner, a frequent objection to my strategies is, ‘I don’t trust super’. The proposed…