Karalee Katsambanis

Dear reader, do I go and work for Twitter? Try to change the system from within?

27 January 2021 4:00 am

There is nothing like a good dose of irony to make me smile.  Look at what job recently popped up…

Maradona should warn us: excusing our sports stars’ bad behaviour has become an Australian pastime

29 November 2020 3:35 pm

Last week, I received a blunt text message. “Maradona. Should be a lesson to every child.”   In other words, a…

Anthony Albanese’s conduct confirms he’s a joke, not a leader

9 November 2020 5:00 am

Australia and the United States share a history marked by many similarities and some stark divides.   Over more than a century, however, our…

Hot potato, hot potato

28 October 2020 5:00 am

The latest “culturally insensitive” crisis to engulf Western Civilisation is Blue Wiggle Anthony Field apologising for a video clip of…

When will WA Labor lift the Iron Ore Curtain?

26 October 2020 7:11 pm

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is hopeful Western Australia will re–open by late December. No doubt that will be on…

Luvvies, be careful what you wish for

15 September 2020 5:00 am

The saying goes, “be careful what you wish for”.  Most people want a fairer, non–judgemental world for the future, but in reality when…

Keeping the masses in their place never works. Prejudice never stopped my father – and cancel culture will never stop me

6 September 2020 5:00 am

I am the daughter of an East End barrow boy, born in Tower Hamlets in 1918 with the odds stacked…

Ronald Reagan’s words ring louder than ever: freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction

12 August 2020 5:00 am

Living in a democracy has responsibilities.  Acceptance of different ideas and the right for people to have opposing views is one…

Why the woke war against women?

4 August 2020 5:00 am

Just when you think the world cannot get any sillier, it does.  The American Cancer Society is now recommending that…

Nothing like proving the(ir) ABC’s a sheltered workshop

28 July 2020 5:00 am

I’m waiting for white knight Jimmy Barnes to come to the rescue of Ita Buttrose.   Ita has taken a cold chisel and cracked…

Um, slebs… about those adopted Asian and African kids

14 July 2020 5:00 am

The “cancel culture” chaotic mob mentality continues its journey throughout the Western World yet I cannot help but wonder why it has not yet turned on Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron and other Hollywood…

Confected outrage

29 June 2020 5:06 pm

Nestlé, why stop now? You are on a real roll trending and riding the tsunami wave of stupidity going on at the…

They know nothing

14 June 2020 11:53 am

So, now we are apparently living in what is called a “cancel culture”.   Removing historical TV shows and movies will not help anyone in trying to…

How the evil, wicked plastic bag became a corona fighter

8 June 2020 5:00 pm

It is not often that an identified Public Enemy Number One actually becomes a Superhero.  And it took a pandemic…

Free childcare: it sounds great, but your kids will pay for it from their taxes later

1 June 2020 6:11 pm

There is not one Australian industry sector that wouldn’t want a $60 billion handout. Not one.  But the “free childcare for all kids” plea…

The NRL scores for corona common sense

29 May 2020 11:16 am

It has been a David and Goliath battle for one man battling to ensure his sporting code’s survival and indeed last…

Colour me woke

26 May 2020 5:00 am

Crayola has launched a new range of crayons to represent 40 different skin tones and reflect ‘the full spectrum of human…

The Seinfeld climate change debate

17 May 2020 9:56 am

Irony is a wonderful thing.  One year ago, thousands of misguided schoolchildren around the world hit the streets campaigning for climate change action, but…

Pigs might fly – and the left might for once admit their errors

14 May 2020 10:51 am

It took the coughing fit of the Treasurer for some real claws to come out.  “It’s not a good look now…

Pink and blue? That’s far too simple for some

8 May 2020 3:06 pm

Last time I checked the number of genders available to identify as or with is currently 112.  That’s up from…

Are the Trump outrage merchants drunk on their own hand sanitiser?

27 April 2020 3:49 pm

Have we all really become that stupid? Has it really come to this?  Have we all lost the ability to…

Castle falls

24 April 2020 10:07 am

“Thank God.”  I’m sure that is what Israel Folau would like to Tweet right now. The Chief Executive Officer of…

What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain and Tony Abbott have in common?

20 April 2020 4:07 pm

What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain, Tony Abbott and the Australian media have in common? They are all strong-minded and…

Remember why we put something away for a rainy day?

16 April 2020 5:00 am

Paul Keating famously proclaimed when we hit the wall back in 1991 that it was the recession Australia had to…

Shut up there, Cazaly

2 April 2020 1:00 pm

They don’t know what they will do, when they will go back to work or how their families will survive…