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Digital dystopia
Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical…
Defining tyranny: will the Voice end democracy?
What is a tyranny? You probably know that China is a tyranny, even if the experts prefer the term totalitarian. Social…
The ABCs of Covid
A is for Abundance (i.e to exercise a caution of): the only justification required for our leaders to breach our…
The Federation Cross
Away back in the good old days when men could find a job; When money was as good as gold…
3,000 days of Dan
The Victorian Premier’s milestone is not a cause for celebration
How the Libs should defund the ABC
Canada’s conservatives are on the right track
Changing climate change: debunking the global colossus
In a previous article, I discussed how climate science has grown from an obscure theory in the late 80s to…
Biden’s hiring criteria: Woke before worker?!
Americans have until April 3 to challenge proposed subjective ‘suitability and fitness’ criteria for selecting Federal employees. Released February 14,…
Australia: suffocated by regulation and raided by greedy politicians
Gary Banks in The Australian notes how government regulatory measures are destroying our vital comparative advantage in energy supply and promoting inefficient labour…
Sensitivity readers: no better than Medieval statue butchers
‘Yeah, the good news is that this is a right-wing source that is probably blowing it out of proportion. But…
What is yours, is theirs
How dare you work hard, often across multiple jobs!!! You studied, innovated, invested, risked time and money, saved (rather than…
Rev. Calvin Robinson: a crisis of faith for the Anglican Church?
What follows is one of the most articulate and powerful speeches you are likely to view this year. It is…
Sea level rises?
Who would believe that the whole world has just woken up to the fact that climate changes? It changes constantly…
Alan Jones: Rio Tinto and Taiwan, or is that ‘Greater China’?
I have long wondered whether Australia’s corporate world places its interests above all others, including the poor coot in Struggle…
The Left’s aversion to teacher quality is harming our kids
The Productivity Commission has recently thrown down the gauntlet on teacher quality, and its importance to the nation’s economic health.…
From lockdown paradise to love island: Australia’s bizarre pilfering of UK doctors
Last week, whilst perusing the internet, I stumbled upon a rather amusing story. It turns out a delegation from Western…
The fact-checker industrial complex
I tuned in the other day to an excellent webinar titled Prayer and Pushback organised by the redoubtable Pat Mesiti. It was a…
Australia’s social credit score Olympics
‘Made in China’ … three words that most people on the planet will recognise. For more than half a century,…
Labor uses every trick to dodge interest rate rise blame
Due in March this year is the report of the Review into the mandate and operational arrangements for the Reserve…
The ‘anti-discrimination’ bandwagon – coming to a school near you
You have to hand it to the ‘anti-discrimination’ warriors – they are effective. Watch them go from city to city…
Big Tech showdown: DeSantis floats Digital Bill of Rights
Ron DeSantis has tabled a citizen vs. Silicon Valley, Digital Bill of Rights, designed to hand Floridians protections against Big Tech overreach.…
Productivity is never an accident
As our inexperienced (but trying hard) Prime Minister and his vainglorious Treasurer attempt to right the budget ship and stop…
Printing money: inflation comes for the West
Groceries aren’t rising in price and giant supermarket chains aren’t making record profits. The value of money is collapsing. That’s…
Finally, we can talk about the Wuhan Lab
In early 2020, a New York Times headline scoffed, Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins. This week, the newspaper of…
The Australian education system is woefully outdated
The aim of the Australian education system is to provide ‘a system that supports participation and helps all Australians reach…