Andrew L. Urban

Democracy or minocracy?

23 February 2023 4:00 am

If democracy is defined by majority rule, Australia is not a democracy; it’s a minocracy. The current Labor government attracted…

Tenants vs Landlords – a dystopian future?

17 February 2023 5:30 am

As I travelled from Here-and-now to There-and-how along the Troublesome Track, I passed a new hospital on the outskirts of…

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…

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…

Warming the till: preachers of the apocalypse make billions

8 February 2023 4:00 am

Political agenda dressed in the lab coat of science

Marxism is ‘so’ 2022

25 December 2022 4:00 am

‘Religion is the opium of the people,’ is the famous Karl Marx put-down, which he wrote in 1843 and which…

Setting fire to the climate straw man

19 December 2022 10:00 am

As the inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism hit home with our very own energy crisis, Australians are entitled…

A belligerent Voice?

30 November 2022 11:00 am

To paraphrase the awkward words of Joe Biden, ‘The Nationals ain’t black … they’re not voting for the Voice.’ Biden’s…

Pull up! Pull up!

27 November 2022 7:00 am

The test pilot was the fourth to try and figure out why the new plane kept crashing. The previous three…

After Biden beat Obama

22 November 2022 6:00 am

Now that Donald Trump has declared his candidacy for the US presidency in the 2024 election, it is relevant to…

Who voted for wealth redistribution to save the planet?

16 November 2022 8:00 am

Politicians of all stripes and in all Western countries have been obediently parroting the official IPCC line that Climate Change…

The case of the missing red wave

11 November 2022 11:20 am

What follows is conjecture, not evidence. But there is no way anyone can dispute it. So here goes. The US…

The evidence is not ‘in’

8 November 2022 1:04 pm

It might take a catastrophe to stop politicians (and other cohorts) making assertions to justify consequential decisions without evidence –…

Confessions of a 10-year-old revolutionary

25 October 2022 11:00 am

As a 10-year-old young ‘pioneer’ in communist-controlled Hungary, I hated the red kerchief I was forced to wear under threat…

Are you technically stupid? Check the Third Basic Law

16 October 2022 10:00 am

Qualifying for the 3rd Basic Law of Human Stupidity is effortless for some, especially when they talk about the old…

It’s the politics, stupid

6 October 2022 10:00 am

When US President Joe Biden said ‘we don’t have much time’ at the UN National Assembly on September 21, 2022,…

Climate Change 101

16 September 2022 8:00 am

With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (foolishly) declaring it ‘entirely appropriate’ last Sunday that King Charles III should continue advocating for…

Show us the evidence, Minister

9 September 2022 3:00 am

The climate alarmism of Parliament is starting to melt

Grievance politics will never reconcile

7 August 2022 8:00 am

Recognition, reconciliation, closing the gap, a Voice … all bundled into a grievance package squeezing the guilt out of contemporary…

Burning biomass fuels climate stupidity

22 July 2022 10:00 am

Some of us have always known that climate hysteria causes malfunctions in the brain. (The precise medical term is ‘Subject…

Climate Science for Dummies – the TV show

14 July 2022 12:00 pm

Given the ever-escalating hysteria about this catastrophic, urgent, the-end-is-nigh ‘climate emergency’ that has been turbo-charged by world leaders who have…

Where’s ‘The Voice’ of reason?

1 July 2022 3:03 pm

Hey, Mr Albanese, fools rush in and all that… Hold back on the referendum for a moment. The voice of reason should…

Climate Change: the wolf that isn’t there

22 May 2022 8:20 pm

The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by human activity into the Earth’s atmosphere is about the equivalent of a grain…

Dear Anthony Albanese, please calm the children

28 April 2022 4:00 am

This open letter is meant to reassure you and ask you to – in turn – reassure Australia’s children that…

Fair go, mate!

25 April 2022 2:00 pm

The first time I heard the phrase ‘fair go!’ I was a young reporter new to Australia from Britain and…