Andrew L. Urban

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…

So, you want a federal corruption watchdog?

20 April 2022 2:00 pm

What constitutes corruption for a watchdog? Merriam-Webster Definition of corruption 1a: dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people (such as…

Ukraine was conned

17 April 2022 4:00 am

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was brought up in the grunt town of Kryvyi Rih, a Soviet-looking industrial city in the southeast of…

Dishonesty, the new transparency?

14 April 2022 12:00 pm

Labor Leader Anthony Albanese wouldn’t answer (three times, like Peter the Apostle’s denial of knowing Jesus) whether a Labor government…

Putin’s Playbook is playing Americans for suckers

22 March 2022 4:00 am

Perhaps the biggest mistake of the American intelligence world is to have imagined that Russians think like Americans. ‘They don’t,’…

Capitulation complete for Ukraine-Russia conflict

8 March 2022 9:00 am

It cannot be any clearer: 141 countries have condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate in a vote…

Kyiv falls: then what?

4 March 2022 2:00 pm

Taking control of Kyiv is one thing. Taking control of the entire country is quite another. But even if Putin…

Thugs ‘R’ Us

1 March 2022 1:00 pm

The meeting in Moscow was kept secret. The Soviet leadership had agreed to a low key exchange of views with…

Why would the West want to invade Russia?

11 February 2022 4:00 pm

A June 2016 Levada poll found that 68 per cent of Russians think NATO troops in the Baltic States and…

Australia desperately needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission

8 February 2022 12:00 pm

Talk about missing the point… All those clamouring for a federal corruption commission to be an election issue have so…

‘Whoopsi’ Goldberg’s learning curve

4 February 2022 12:00 pm

‘I stand corrected,’ said Whoopi Goldberg, the day after she was advised that the Holocaust was indeed a racist slaughter.…

Nerds, nannies and dictators

23 January 2022 12:00 pm

Young nerds in Silicon Valley are now the rule-makers of culture across the western world. Culture, identity, and the conflict…

A different take on the Jesus story

19 December 2021 12:00 pm

My favourite Christmas story … stop me if you’ve heard it. According to the late Sydney theologian Dr Barbara Thiering’s…