The Parisites
Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi…
Australia, a failing state
According to the UN’s definition, ‘failed states’ are political entities that demonstrate little or no ability to provide their citizens…
Losing the battle for Britain
Q: What’s the connection between jazz great Thelonious Monk and a dachshund called Charlie Barker? A: A cartoonist named Michael…
Guilty
A decision by Justice Elizabeth Fullerton is due imminently in the case of malicious prosecution brought by Gordon Wood against…
Warriors for liberty
It is sobering if not downright depressing to be reviewing two new books whose authors can be described as warriors…
Apology unaccepted
It was 18 years ago last weekend that then-PM John Howard moved a Motion of Reconciliation, including an expression of…
Cold temperatures in hot water
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is in hot water after revelations that have cast doubt on the reliability and veracity…
Wage inequality: us vs the bureaucrats
Note to Labour: One reason why the income gap widens in times of slow economic growth, I suggest, is surely…
Same old inconvenient drivel
Al Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power, opens in Australia on August 10. What a pity.…
Sydney (pseudo) Science Festival 2017
The Sydney Science Festival (August 8-20, if you want to put it in your diary) has booked an Opera House…
The peaceful majority are irrelevant
Islam has exported its primitive, age-old and endless Sunni vs Shiite war of religious violence around the world, expanding it…
It just ain’t so
Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research…
Terror targets? We have it in writing…
Are we in the West stupid, careless, uninformed or suicidal? It is now 10 years – that is a decade…
ASIO’s insult to the intelligence of Muslims
It’s an insult to the intelligence of Muslims, frankly to all of us, to keep claiming that terrorism today is…
Jihadi notes
Why the West is lost The shimmering mirage of an enlightened age across the West is shattered now, and it…
Sinking into oppression
We were saying things around the dinner table last Friday night and Gillian Triggs could not stop us. We were…
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