Bowen should be goin’
It’s still not too late for Australia’s welfare, let’s hope, for the Opposition to call on the Prime Minister to…
Another epidemic of irrationality
I must stop smacking my forehead in disbelief. With that undertaking in mind, I referred back to an article of…
Parable of the apple and the hand grenade
It came to pass one day, an apple and a hand grenade came face to face. I am an apple,…
Wong & Macron (et al) ignorant of Hamas mindset
Calling for Israeli restraint and/or a ceasefire, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has joined French President Emanuel Macron in demonstrating…
Human shields to useful corpses?
‘I read the news today…oh boy,’ John Lennon’s lyrics begin (A Day in the Life). The news said: ‘The Ministry…
The high cost of shoehorning Biden into the Presidency
Shoehorning? I’m sure you know what I mean. It is this: I do not believe that Biden’s basement-delivered campaign in…
It’s the mens rea, stupid!
The young female journalist-cum-activist from the ABC (suffering early onset bias) was asking Amir Maimon, the Israeli Ambassador to Australia,…
It is still called genocide
Trick question 1: What is the main difference between the Nazis and Hamas terrorists? Answer: Gas chambers. Trick question 2: What is…
A bomb wrapped as a gift: no thanks
It would have detonated multiple times over a few years, as the Voice package, if accepted by Australians, shed its…
Albanese‘s betrayal: power by inheritance
Flying (in a plane) over the vast Australian continent on my return from ‘bitsy’ Europe this week, I felt I…
Francis of Rome
Dear God, Forgive your earthly mouthpiece, Francis of Rome, for he knows not what he is talking about when he…
Welcome to a country of crony capitalism
There’s a new welcome uttered around the Albanese government offices: ‘We acknowledge the fawning directors present and emerging of the…
A kiss is just a kiss … not!
Luis Rubiales has resigned as president of the Spanish Football Federation following criticism for kissing Spain forward Jenni Hermoso at…
‘No’ will let them know
Then what? As the October 14 Voice referendum grows closer, speculation is rampant about the socio-political consequences of the result.…
What is mis-dis in climate change debate?
Speaking in Suva in July 2022, Anthony Albanese declared a climate emergency in the Pacific. This came after joining regional…
Maui fires v Ukraine invasion?
They’ve got the wrong comparison when they (voters, politicians, and commentators) complain that while the Biden administration is handing Ukraine…
Voice ruptures the bond
No, no, no! It’s not the lack of detail nor the promise of its permanence in the Constitution, nor that…
Ruining the world to ‘save the planet’
The late morning sun danced off the Mediterranean as I took a chair facing Al Gore on the rooftop terrace…
Presumption of evil not innocence
How can it be that a man of impeccable character in his late 70s is convicted of 28 nasty sexual…
Should Australia and Ukraine should join NATO?
The UN is powerless to prevent war
ICAC got it wrong on Gladys
The transcript exposes woeful ignorance of political practice
The governing orthodoxy or the truth?
No, look, seriously, what do you say to a Labor government that plans to fine companies billions of dollars for…
Partying like it’s 1901
When the bill to authorise a referendum on the Voice to Parliament was passed in the Senate on June 19,…
Terrorist rehab?
Two movies screening in early May (in Sydney), along with a Guantanamo Bay court hearing for the case of Southeast…
Welcome to custodianship?
Perhaps the most inappropriate time I heard a welcome to country acknowledgement of the traditional custodians of the land was…
