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Climate ruminations: the markets reject Chalmers

13 February 2023 5:00 am

Combatting the perceived incidence of global warming is driving government policies. In Australia this has been obvious for many years,…

Why did medical authorities reject vitamin D?

13 February 2023 4:30 am

I hope this does not count as boasting, but I wrote, rather exasperatedly, about the lack of promotion of vitamin…

Combatting Woke tyranny: can science be saved?

13 February 2023 4:00 am

The takeover of universities and scientific associations by radical Woke activists seeking to impose an ideological straight jacket on academia…

Biden: the merchant of hypocrisy

12 February 2023 6:00 am

It seems to be a scientific law, like gravity, that whatever trespasses the US Democrats accuse the Republicans of, it…

Superwoke ChatGPT busted for bias

12 February 2023 5:00 am

Hollywood has long speculated about the impact artificial intelligence (AI) will have on the future of human civilisation. Increasingly, scientists…

Politics deep in the thrall of climate change

12 February 2023 4:00 am

The issue of Climate Change stormed across our TV screens at the recent federal election. Funded by a renewables investor,…

The prostitutes of Davos

11 February 2023 3:15 pm

Once upon a time, Davos was a village in the Swiss Alps known for not much at all. Suddenly it…

Australia’s right to be intolerant of intolerance

11 February 2023 12:11 pm

Why is Australian democracy so overly, dangerously tolerant as to seem craven and weak, as it watches the ignorant aggro…

I’m offended: John Rich isn’t toning down dissent 

11 February 2023 12:03 pm

Country music’s, John Rich has doubled down on dissent, criticising perpetual outrage in his latest ‘no’ to Woketopianism. Debuted on Twitter as…

Choosing your sport

11 February 2023 5:00 am

What sport would you recommend your child play? If it’s football, most footballers have to retire by age 30, some…

Why does everyone hate Velma?

11 February 2023 4:00 am

George Bernard Shaw once remarked that youth is wasted on the young. I have to disagree. Before discovering cigarettes, alcohol,…

One bright line between sanity and San Francisco

10 February 2023 3:03 pm

2022 will go down in history as the watershed year when the world’s figurehead of sane drug policy inadvertently surrendered…

Do Australian churches require buffer zones against protests?

10 February 2023 6:00 am

Outside St. Mary’s Cathedral during Cardinal Pell’s funeral, a group of protesters heckled mourners with loud noise. The numbers vary;…

Breadlines and first world problems

10 February 2023 5:00 am

There’s a deep irony behind Australia’s Woke warriors who spend their waking (and probably sleeping) hours obsessed with calling out…

A return to winner-takes-all custody battles

10 February 2023 4:00 am

This week a television crew from the Japanese public broadcaster came to Sydney to interview family law specialist Justin Dowd,…

Breaking the silence: do vested interests stifle medical discussions?

9 February 2023 7:00 am

Previously we examined the story behind UK Cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra’s call to ‘stop the shots’. In this follow up piece…

Xi is not foolish enough to invade Taiwan (we hope)

9 February 2023 6:00 am

Let’s be realistic … if counterintuitive. Despite the many illustrious commentators and foreign affairs specialists warning and worrying in the…

The Prime Minister is right – and very wrong

9 February 2023 5:00 am

Recently, the Prime Minister of Australia has been heard regularly professing, ‘There is enough information about the Voice out there…

Carlos conquers Carrington

9 February 2023 4:00 am

Nobody living today can remember two significant events that occurred in September 1859. These events were separated by a 24-hour…

The God delusion: men seeking womb transplants

9 February 2023 2:25 am

Last week, I stumbled over the Daily Mail article titled: EXCLUSIVE: Womb transplants for TRANS women are ‘very likely in the near future’,…

Productivity: are Australians working too hard, or not hard enough?

8 February 2023 6:00 am

Productivity is defined as a measure of the efficiency of production of goods and services, in simple terms the number…

‘No’ means no: the sensible case against the Voice

8 February 2023 5:00 am

Anthony Albanese’s first act as Prime Minister was to replace two of the three Australian flags in the Parliament House…

Naked self-interest: Chalmers, Labor, and the unions

8 February 2023 4:30 am

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ essay in The Monthly is an urgent, although not particularly eloquent, proof of the need for organisations like…

Warming the till: preachers of the apocalypse make billions

8 February 2023 4:00 am

Political agenda dressed in the lab coat of science

Delilah is banned, what’s next?

7 February 2023 8:00 am

Delilah is a 1967 chart-topper first sung by the Welsh dragon Sir Tom Jones. The song topped the charts in many…