Below the belt —and road
In the Land of Oz, when Labor apparatchiks follow the yellow brick road to the end of the rainbow —…
Pilgrim Daughter
Like the Pilgrim Fathers before her, Greta Thunberg, the po-faced Pilgrim Daughter of the climate cult, set sail for America…
Mother Jacinda and climate change’s King Canute
A Pacific Island Forum in Tuvalu was always going to be inundated by climate catastrophism. One of the lowest-lying island…
NSW botches abortion
‘The sound of men arguing over our personal reproductive health choices hurts my ears and it offends my very core,’…
The Year My Woke Broke
When Prince Harry revealed, in the issue of Vogue his wife guest-edited, that they would only have two children ‘to…
Eat the chefs
The offenderati have been baying for blood ever since it was revealed that MasterChef Australia judge George Calombaris had been…
Through thick and spin
Once upon a time, Britain sent Australia its excess convicts. These days we get Tony Blair’s old spin doctors, a…
An upside to invasion?
Nathan Moran, of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council in Sydney, kicked off Naidoc week by criticising the city’s publicly-funded…
Ghostbusters
Last week the miserable ghost of Malcolm Turnbull put in an apparition at the Friends of Wolper Jewish Hospital. Presumably…
Another Sampson blinded in Gaza
Hooray for Pallywood, or rather Gazallywood, that wonderful melange of misleading footage, falsehoods, fakeries and frauds that makes up so…
Go fund yourself!
In 2009, on ABC’s Q&A, host Tony Jones asked host of Channel Ten’s The Project and practising Muslim Waleed Aly…
China’s organ grinder
Political violence is rare in Australia but a senior partner at a Sydney accounting firm gave a new ‘twist’ to…
Undie-cover agents
Last week, with all the stealth of the pirates of Penzance, Australia’s Federal Police, raided not one but two major…
They’re a weird religious mob
‘I cannot believe in this election that there is a discussion even under way that gay people will go to…
The sloppiest suicide note
‘No-one saw it coming,’ the shocked commentariat claimed. Goodness. Where are the ABC’s fact checkers when you need them? In…
Dirty dancing with Fannie and Freddie
You don’t need a crystal ball to see that whoever wins our federal election, the taxpayer is going to be…
The nutters we had to have
‘Every now and then you have to flick the switch to vaudeville,’ former prime minister Paul Keating once said, and…
Doomsday, again
‘NOW is Not the time for Business AS usual,’ read the grumpy boy’s placard as he munched on an apple…
The Curate’s NEG
It’s been all the fun of the fair as a 10-day long weekend gave voters a chance to observe the…
Whiffy-leaks
If fish and visitors stink in three days, as Benjamin Franklin advised, it’s easy to see how Wikileaks founder Julian…
Vale Peter Coleman
William Peter Coleman (15 December 1928 – 31 March 2019) was that increasingly rare creature in contemporary Australia, a great…
Unis? Must try harder
‘I’m a revolutionary Marxist, and if you’re not one by the end of semester I haven’t done my job properly,’…
The Left’s bad joke
After the atrocity comes the inevitable blame game. Hardly waiting to draw breath, Wajahat Ali leapt into print in the…
Venice diary
The Biennale The Venice Biennale has been a rite of every second spring since 1895. The oldest biennial art fair…
Laughing gas
The latest lunatic government intervention into Australian energy markets conjures up the old lady who swallowed a fly. In 2001,…
