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But they should take the children away…
Despite the worsening crisis in indigenous child welfare, the Aboriginal industry is continuing to make the same misleading claims about…
Aussie Mussies
There have been few developments to better illustrate the collective delusions of the progressive media and the Islamic community than…
Baiting greyhound owners
Greyhound racing is to be outlawed in NSW from July 1, purportedly based on the findings of the McHugh report,…
Technical nightmare
Surely Malcolm Williamson represented the ultimate process of career self-destruction possible in a culture which had never experienced suicide-bombers. When…
Them’s fighting words
First speeches are one of the few times Parliamentarians can present their motivations to the Chamber. After a precarious election…
All sizzle, no sausage
During a recent policy debate concerning the proposal to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our Constitution, a…
The Empire fries back
Memo to self: If I ever decide to flirt with the shoals of bankruptcy and follow friends’ calls to ‘open…
Throwing a tanderrum
Connoisseurs of our sunburnt country’s timeless heritage have a treat in store next month. An indigenous tanderrum, or ceremonial mass…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s just the calm before the storm. Despite the apparent parliamentary resolution of the government’s superannuation fracas, the battle is…
Boom time
The government claims it had a good week last week, increasing taxes on savings, raising effective marginal tax rates on…
Le poison Pen
The surge of the far-right Front National (FN) since Marine Le Pen took over the leadership of the party from…
Pauline appeals! Elites in shock!
The reaction to Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech was a reminder that like Disraeli’s England, Australia is now two nations ,…
Over-crowded upper house
Watching the circus that was the Republican convention to endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy was enough to make Australian voters such…
Journos or Groupies?
Sam Dastyari’s ‘Chinese indiscretion’ hit the press on Tuesday of the first week of parliament. It was immediately followed by…
Power to the plebiscite
Malcolm Turnbull’s shilly-shallying before deciding to go ahead with the gay ‘marriage’ plebiscite is what we have come to expect…
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…
Aux bien pensants
Treachery at the heart of our politics Australians have been told over and over that Senator Dastyari has broken no…
Business/Robbery etc
No wonder savers are getting stroppy. The Reserve Bank keeps cutting interest rates (and savers’ incomes) in line with the…
Elephant in the room
The tsunami that has been approaching Australia has finally come ashore and it now wobbles and stumbles through our schools,…
Hypocrisy and free speech in sports
For those of you who don’t follow US sports, let me tell you that there is currently a big brouhaha…
The kids are alright
At sixteen, almost half of my classmates from the year before had already left school and were either working or…
I don’t give a Gonski and neither should you
Ask anyone from Malcolm Turnbull down to the fedora-wearing Socialist leafleting on the corner of Flinders Street Station and odds…
Taking offence
It was Victor Hugo who wrote that ‘an invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be…
Time to sign up for free speech
The sorry state of free speech in this country appears to concern a lot of people in this country. The…
Fall of a political pin-up
After NSW Premier Mike Baird, with his Greens and neo-Marxist allies rammed through a ban on greyhound racing, ‘Kim Il…