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…
The Voice would rhyme
There’s a pub somewhere in the Aussie outback which displays a worn and fraying sign: ‘Free beer tomorrow.’ The larrikin…
What does reconciliation look like?
Reconciliation. The word is used almost automatically, especially in the context of the arguments about the Voice referendum. It sounds…
A backdoor revolution?
‘Albanese is convinced the Voice will pass,’ writes Dennis Shanahan in The Australian. If so, the consequential conclusion of the…
Post-referendum blues
Come the referendum and the Voice will be dead or alive. But the shouting will continue. Post-referendum Australia will have…
Play hardball and stop the carnage
The Western alliance against the Russian Federation’s Ukraine invasion is characterised by soft leather shoes, white shirts, diplomatic suits, and…
Democracy or minocracy?
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?
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
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)
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
Political agenda dressed in the lab coat of science
Marxism is ‘so’ 2022
‘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
As the inevitably painful consequences of unfounded climate alarmism hit home with our very own energy crisis, Australians are entitled…
A belligerent Voice?
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!
The test pilot was the fourth to try and figure out why the new plane kept crashing. The previous three…
After Biden beat Obama
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?
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
What follows is conjecture, not evidence. But there is no way anyone can dispute it. So here goes. The US…
