Australia should treat China as a political psychopath
Lowy Institute fellow Alan Dupont, CEO of geopolitical risk consultancy the Cognoscenti Group, commenting on China and our strained relations…
Border bans: premiers put the constitution behind them
Hi folks, welcome to our neck of the woods (mind the charred koalas). The dunny is down the back there…
How pandemic panic has perverted our politics
Coronavirus has panicked Western leaders — not all, but most — into behaving irrationally and dishonestly. Australia, so lightly touched…
Replacing RBG – much ado about the same thing
Aren’t the Democrats hoping to win the Presidency so they can nominate a left-sympathiser judge to the vacancy on the…
Anna and The Fly – a parable
Once upon a time there was a girl called Anna who lived in a lovely sunny house with a view…
Justice delayed and delayed – then delayed by coronavirus
One of the “much loved and respected“ inmates of Hobart’s Risdon women’s prison, Sue Neill-Fraser, has had to keep deferring her hope…
White Comcars reflect our colonial past? Really?
The 6 Series GT BMW cars that replaced the taxpayer-funded Comcar fleet made up of Holden Caprices are being withdrawn from…
Woke notes
Chinese aggression and the New Cold War The elderly woman in the ground floor flat was the janitor of the…
Tech giant media content code still slugs taxpayers over SBS and the ABC
The world-first draft mandatory code unveiled by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last Friday in response to complaints tech giants Google and Facebook have…
China, ‘consequences’ have consequences of their own
The Chinese leadership, through their mouthpieces in their embassies in Canberra, London and Washington, are these days mouthing veiled and…
There is no greater taboo than perceived insensitivity to Aboriginal Australia, so why the constant cries of racism?
“Burn the f…ing place down!” screams the angry young Aboriginal woman on the TV screen (in a red dress and…
Mob rule is not ok
When a man with a sign “Black, white — all lives matter” is booed and physically attacked by an angry…
Brutal history – or brutal present?
As the Black Lives Matter mantra sweeps the world, there is a view held by some that there is no…
China is desperate to crush the Tiananmen spirit
Next week’s anniversary 0f the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen massacre is generating deep concerns in Beijing — hence its lashing…
How Canberra can open closed state borders
It is unconstitutional to close borders between states, now that medical advice assures the Premiers that there is no scientific…
Closed borders are unconstitutional – no question
You can’t argue that there is still a national coronavirus emergency that provides an exemption to Section 92 of the…
Wolf Warriors or China’s whores?
The media has quickly adopted the romanticised term ‘wolf warriors’ for those who in reality should be termed China’s prostitutes.…
Coronavirus: wet markets or the lab – or both?
The most credible version of how the coronavirus was let loose on the world glues together the two apparently contradictory…
China: diminished and exposed
A propaganda banner reads: “Create Happiness for the People”. The CCP, the Chinese Criminal Party, is steeped in the communist…
Our genius universities: let’s fix discrimination against women by making them bigger targets
I didn’t realise the University of Technology Sydney is run by dummies. The university has received approval from the NSW…
We have a surplus, but it’s just been deployed against bushfire and coronavirus debt and deficit
Perhaps the best way to look at the budgetary effects of coronavirus is not that it has helped wipe out…
Why and how China secretly supports climate hysteria
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Climate hysteria…
Wisdom at Railway Square
The incongruity made as much of an impact as the poster itself, on a wall along with a few other…
The Democrats will be butchered by their botched coup
The botched attempt at a coup against US President Donald Trump by the Democrats — and their anti-Trump supporters within…
Impeachment? As Bill Clinton once said, Mr President, I feel your pain
It’s excruciating. My eye rolls are so severe and unstoppable that my eyelids are sore. My forehead is red from…
