The evidence is not ‘in’
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
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
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
When US President Joe Biden said ‘we don’t have much time’ at the UN National Assembly on September 21, 2022,…
Climate Change 101
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
The climate alarmism of Parliament is starting to melt
Grievance politics will never reconcile
Recognition, reconciliation, closing the gap, a Voice … all bundled into a grievance package squeezing the guilt out of contemporary…
Burning biomass fuels climate stupidity
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
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?
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
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
This open letter is meant to reassure you and ask you to – in turn – reassure Australia’s children that…
Fair go, mate!
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?
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
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?
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
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
It cannot be any clearer: 141 countries have condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate in a vote…
Kyiv falls: then what?
Taking control of Kyiv is one thing. Taking control of the entire country is quite another. But even if Putin…
Thugs ‘R’ Us
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?
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
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
‘I stand corrected,’ said Whoopi Goldberg, the day after she was advised that the Holocaust was indeed a racist slaughter.…
Nerds, nannies and dictators
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
My favourite Christmas story … stop me if you’ve heard it. According to the late Sydney theologian Dr Barbara Thiering’s…