Andrew L. Urban

Stop denying our Earth is warming

11 May 2025 10:02 pm

It’s a natural process, not a carbon crisis

Voters want more hard Labor

5 May 2025 11:28 pm

With Labor’s sweeping victory at the 2025 election, future policy settings suggest themselves to ensure yet another term of Labor…

Ukraine is not at war with Russia

5 May 2025 8:45 am

Nobody declared war ahead of the invasion of Ukraine. It is a universally outlawed illegal invasion mischaracterised as a war.…

The con in conclave?

30 April 2025 12:18 pm

And other heavenly satire

Reason v magical climate thinking – voters have no choice

20 April 2025 5:22 pm

As Australians prepare to vote for the nature of their future on May 3, I can report that back in…

Long live Chris Bowen!

16 April 2025 7:25 pm

As you pop your eyeballs back in place, lift your jaw off the floor, and pour a stiff drink after…

Man-made warming: today the room, tomorrow the world

7 April 2025 2:13 am

A serious question for voters in this federal election campaign: If climate change is a scientific matter, why wasn’t it…

The schemers, the naive, and the fearful

1 April 2025 6:13 pm

It was late Sunday morning, March 23, 2025, when Kathrine posted her question in the reader comments at the end…

The low-down on the legal profession

24 March 2025 12:00 pm

Sydney’s Macquarie Law School is attracting public criticism for compelling law students to include Acknowledgment of Country (a form of…

Electric shock: it’s much worse than you think

21 March 2025 11:49 am

Startled, I stared at my electricity bill. My consumption over the quarter had decreased by 4.62 per cent. The bill,…

No answer on the apocalypse that never was

17 March 2025 5:52 pm

They’ve had over 30 years to show us the metaphorical climate change money. Over 30 years to respond to the…

Don’t fall for Putin’s Nato furphy

13 February 2025 12:00 pm

As Trump and Putin spend over an hour on the phone today (Feb. 13 as I write) to talk potential…

Hamas and Putin

6 February 2025 11:31 pm

A two-state solution? Been there done that. Israel was state one, Gaza was state two. Gaza was under the armed…

I know the antidote, Douglas

5 February 2025 3:00 pm

I had just finished watching the Netflix series, Lioness, the other day when I read your lament, Douglas Murray, in…

Bowen’s sabotage

28 January 2025 9:22 am

A bloke called Arthur from Camp Mountain, a community of less that 1,500 people some 20kms northwest of Brisbane, has…

Their god is not willing, Penny

8 January 2025 2:48 am

How many Palestinians does it take to change a light bulb? None! They sit in the dark forever and blame…

Positano, Amalfi coast, Italy

8 December 2024 7:13 am

The little motor boat with the red fish sign flying on what would have been a mast had it been…

Feral left goes Full Monty across the Anglosphere

26 November 2024 11:07 am

The left in the Anglosphere, rather feral these days, has gone Full Monty. In the UK, Prime Minister Sir Keir…

Labor’s 30 pieces of voting silver

23 November 2024 6:44 pm

The Jew with the bloodied torso was being brutalised, lashed, and abused. I was seated in row B of the…

The West shrugs at North Korean troops in Europe

12 November 2024 7:44 am

North Korean troops sent to fight alongside Russians in its invasion of Ukraine has been met with what looks like…

Opposition’s chance to Trump Net Zero

11 November 2024 9:37 am

There will be a narrow window of opportunity between the Presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025 and the next Australian…

Triumph v Karma-la – the second coming

7 November 2024 9:17 am

The problem for the Democrats is not that they’re out of touch, as everyone is saying in election postmortems. Their…

Will this election Make America Cheat Again?

31 October 2024 7:56 pm

‘Who could imagine that Kamala has any support … are Americans asleep?’ Or so read the text message from a…

Painted into the climate change corner

28 October 2024 1:00 am

While Anthony Albanese welcomed the King, warming to climate action the other day in Samoa, I was enjoying a BBQ…

Obama’s campaign: something old, something new

14 October 2024 3:37 pm

Did you see Barack Obama lamenting to a group of black Americans that Kamala Harris is not enjoying the enthusiastic…