John Mikkelsen

Roll over Banjo, they’re culling your brumbies

18 June 2026 1:54 am

I’m sure Banjo Paterson would be rolling in his grave if he learns that the beautiful wild brumbies that featured…

The truth is out there, Donald

8 June 2026 11:07 pm

Are the UFO files a distraction or an admission?

I just changed my position, Your Honour

22 May 2026 2:00 pm

While Labor’s Federal Budget has copped a lot of flak from investors and potential property buyers – including the young…

Let’s ‘turn back time’, Albo

12 April 2026 9:20 pm

The good ol’ days are better than whatever this is...

Net Zero on energy promises

23 December 2025 2:00 am

Labor delivered Australians nothing

Nothing sexy about this sticky tax web

3 November 2025 8:51 am

Who’d have thought tax could potentially be an issue for Australia’s Sex Discrimination laws or an example of women’s rights…

Labor’s litany of lies

28 April 2025 1:57 pm

With time running out in the countdown to the May 3 Federal Election, Australia’s future may well depend on how…

Could AI do weather forecasts better than the BOM?

11 January 2025 1:21 pm

As we head into 2025, with Australia living up to its reputation of a land of huge weather contrasts, our…

Can Australia get lucky?

15 December 2024 2:00 am

A few short years ago, Australia was known as The Lucky Country; now in the eyes of the developed world,…

Prescription for pain, angst, and ‘silly old buggers’

22 November 2024 3:42 am

Bob Hawke once infamously referred to a senior citizen as a ‘silly old bugger’ before he inevitably became one, but…

Cheers for a true blue Aussie hero

12 November 2024 10:56 am

Chances are Australia could be facing another disastrous bushfire season like the one we experienced five years ago, which from…

Dwindling delights and mobile frights

24 October 2024 12:50 am

A former Liberal Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, told us life wasn’t meant to be easy, but his borrowed quote left…

Curses! China Syndrome again

3 October 2024 1:53 am

Israel’s recent very successful targeted attacks on Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon with exploding pagers and walkie-talkies have been praised or…

Fines, crimes, and a big white kangaroo

24 September 2024 1:30 am

With a Queensland state election looming and a federal poll in the wind, I’ve already made my mind up –…

The Life of Zye – who will cry?

25 August 2024 1:56 pm

Here’s a macabre little story that illustrates where humanity is headed – let’s call it The Life of Zye even…

Nuclear, and Labor’s lying lips

25 June 2024 9:58 am

The old cliche about how you can tell a politician is lying – their lips are moving – has never…

Beyond Mad Max with dystopian AI

10 June 2024 3:20 am

The dystopian future predicted in the Mad Max movie franchise may be closer than ever and it won’t take world…

Don’t deport little Aussie Luca

23 May 2024 1:12 am

Life really can be bitter-sweet – it can throw up hurdles and roadblocks when they are least expected but sometimes, when all…

Labor, how do I loathe thee?

7 May 2024 12:16 am

I’m probably not alone in finding it surprising that Federal Labor still had around 30 to 32 per cent primary…

Laughs, lies, and lights out

23 April 2024 3:00 am

Oh, the irony! Here I was reading our local Noosa newspaper last Saturday morning and laughing when the power started…

When Medicare refunds end up ‘somewhere’

8 April 2024 3:00 am

I wonder how many Australians, like me, have found communicating with our national health care bureaucracy, Medicare, about as easy…

Even God (the Editor) has made mistakes

20 March 2024 4:00 am

Recently, I recounted how, as a young journalist in the Swinging Sixties, I had been ordered to drive through a…

How low can Covid catastrophists go?

4 March 2024 3:00 am

Who’d have guessed that there would be two startling revelations about the great Covid over-reach in the space of about…

Loopy Labor’s disconnect from reality

20 February 2024 2:30 am

The Labor government’s Closing Loopholes Bill is the latest blow to reality and the business economy, but its ‘Right to…

Carbon ‘facts’ according to Green Dream Believers

29 January 2024 3:00 am

I’ve seen the light – the truth about ‘carbon pollution’ in simple terms as explained by some Green Dream Believers…