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Alan Jones: Ukraine, China, Russia, and the crisis in Western leadership
All the talk is about submarines and Aukus, but the very big geopolitical issue is the war in Ukraine. Elements…
Balls: women don’t have them, and neither does Pesutto
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The release of Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages in the ‘Lockdown files’ has been an eye-opener for many who are now…
