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,…
What, no Nobel Peace Prize?
Trump’s first 100 days: A big failure and a new low in the polls, blasted the Washington Post in March,…
The sinister sharia sisterhood
‘Ayaan Hirsi (is) asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take (her) vagina away – (she doesn’t) deserve…
Bill and the Lilliputians
The death of great men illuminate the darkness like lightning on a stormy night. So it is with Bill Leak,…
La la Libs
The commentariat are almost unanimous that Tony Abbott should not have launched our book Making Australia Right: Where to From…
La la Libs
The commentariat are almost unanimous that Tony Abbott should not have launched our book Making Australia Right: Where to From…
The Dictator delusion
It was a warm tropical night in 1995 and Fidel Castro was playing the waiting game with Gareth Evans. The…
The Dictator delusion
It was a warm tropical night in 1995 and Fidel Castro was playing the waiting game with Gareth Evans. The…
The Dictator delusion
It was a warm tropical night in 1995 and Fidel Castro was playing the waiting game with Gareth Evans. The…
Boom time
The government claims it had a good week last week, increasing taxes on savings, raising effective marginal tax rates on…
We’re all gamblers now
We are a nation of gamblers. We wager more per capita than any other country on earth. But it is…
For Scott’s Eyes Only
Three cheers for the government for saving us from the Yellow Investment Peril. If it weren’t for Treasurer Scott Morrison,…
World Vision’s blind spot
‘I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here,’ said Captain Louis Renault as he collected his…
