How leftists are gaslighting Australia with their Murdoch madness

11 November 2020 4:26 pm

Kevin Rudd’s claim that the Murdoch media is a “cancer on democracy” is gaslighting the Australian people.   Last week a…

Banning and restricting are hallmarks of weak government. Just ask Dan

11 November 2020 2:54 pm

Acting tough in government is easy during a crisis.   Prime Ministers and Premiers routinely dress up the easiest of…

Joel Fitzgibbon’s departure shows the new fault line in Australian politics

11 November 2020 1:05 pm

Joel Fitzgibbon’s resignation as shadow minister for resources and agriculture and his departure to the Labor backbench is symptomatic of the new fault-line in…

wars

The wars go on

11 November 2020 7:39 am

America’s longest war has just entered its 20th year. The US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to overthrow the Taliban…

Trade with Chinese characteristics?

11 November 2020 7:25 am

Wine. Barley. Beef. Lobsters. Sugar. Timber. Copper. Thermal coal. These are important Australian exports which are increasingly being used as…

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Biden’s NeverTrump transition

11 November 2020 7:02 am

Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t yet been officially certified as the winner of the 2020 presidential election and the…

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The unbearable niceness of Canadians is driving us to destruction

11 November 2020 5:54 am

While Americans spent last week panicking about the state of their democracy,  north of the border we were having a…

Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is a victory for the free market

11 November 2020 5:53 am

There are still safety trials to be completed. Data has to be collected, checked, double-checked, and then peer-reviewed. And we…

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The need to concede

11 November 2020 3:55 am

The political and emotional climax of US presidential elections comes when the losing candidate, accompanied by a teary spouse, tersely…

It’s not all sunshine and lollipops – for the US or here

10 November 2020 7:40 pm

Following their declaration of the United States presidential election results for Joe Biden, there has been great surprise expressed by…

Tasmania’s euthanasia diehards

10 November 2020 6:20 pm

Euthanasia is being considered by the Tasmanian Parliament for the fourth time in 11 years, proving that some things just…

In praise of Big Pharma

10 November 2020 6:20 pm

In the last decade, the mega corporation has taken a lot of stick from just about everyone. But hold on.…

Could Trump really call out the troops?

10 November 2020 4:49 pm

It is extraordinary to have to ask the question: can Donald Trump somehow use United States’ armed forces to stay…

There’s no such thing as an unbiased journalist

10 November 2020 2:58 pm

There’s no such thing as an unbiased journalist. It’s long believed that the role of the news media is to…

Who needs the Australia Card when you can do a Xi Jinping?

10 November 2020 1:18 pm

My. How soon people forget. In 1985, at the national tax summit, the Labor Government proposed the Australia Card: The…

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Pfizer U-turns at warp speed

10 November 2020 6:37 am

Pfizer announced Monday that a coronavirus vaccine the company was working on had proven to be 90 percent effective at…

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The Democrats’ civil war begins

10 November 2020 5:27 am

There is, as our presumptive and somewhat presumptuous President Malaprop told us on Sunday, a time to plant and a…

Goldblunder

10 November 2020 5:00 am

On Friday last, November 6, the Australian Taxation Office had a serious legal bomb blow up in its face. It’s…

Will the Pfizer vaccine live up to the hype?

10 November 2020 1:03 am

So is this the big turning point? Markets certainly seem to think so. No sooner had news broken that the…

The cowardice of an ‘anti-fascist’ video game company

9 November 2020 9:25 pm

Anti-fascism isn’t a game. You can’t preen yourself and say you oppose dictatorship and the power of the mob, then…

Why do American journalists take Trump so seriously?

9 November 2020 8:24 pm

You don’t need to know any more about Stephen Colbert than that he is an American political broadcaster and satirist…

America, remember the Australian ballot? Here are more electoral wonders from Down Under to try

9 November 2020 7:21 pm

What a mess. You know what I mean, so I’m not going to list all the problems and alleged irregularities…

The collapse of American progressivism

9 November 2020 7:19 pm

In the early hours of Wednesday, with Joe Biden appearing to trail Donald Trump in the key states of Michigan…

Why it’s fine to talk about ‘Dictator Dan’

9 November 2020 5:03 pm

For those who count themselves, as I do, among the #DictatorDan crowd, whether full-throated or privately enthusiastic, the decision in…

The Biden win: a grave mistake?

9 November 2020 3:54 pm

Data from the official Michigan government voter index indicates that a man who died in 1984 voted in the United States presidential…