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How Dutton can win
The next federal election is there to be won. Peter Dutton and the Coalition have the ability to win it,…
Trump swallows universe
One of the most important Australian novels of the last few decades is Boy Swallows Universe, the semi-autobiographical debut by…
Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism
The Albanese government this week appointed Jillian Segal AO as its Special Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism. That’s where the good…
Against the machine
It’s wonderful that so many freedom fighters and free speech advocates are making a point of visiting our shores this…
Nuclear fallout
The decision by the Albanese government to employ former Liberal New South Wales treasurer Matt Kean to sell its renewables…
Bowen to the rescue
‘And just when it looked like Labor might hold on to power, Chris Bowen came thundering into town to snatch…
Climate furphies
At the heart of the Paris Agreement is a major furphy, certainly as far as Australia is concerned. Namely, that…
Vaccines? Excess deaths? Any link?
Is this the first significant crack in the dam? This week, the UK Telegraph ran a story that should be…
The buck stops there
Not many of us remember Fred M. Canfil, who, when visiting an Oklahoma prison in 1945, was impressed by a…
Acronym organisations
The so-called rules-based order that the West has prided itself on developing and operating under since the end of the…
Jimflation
Back in 2022 when Labor won the federal election with a paltry 32 per cent of the primary vote, our…
Quantum of decline
On too many fronts, our civilisation and our decency are crumbling before our eyes. The beauty, of course, of the…
Vehicle metaphors
Various vehicular metaphors are commonly used to describe the unravelling of an incompetent government, usually involving train wrecks, car crashes,…
Coalition must U-turn on X
Kudos to Senator Ralph Babet and to One Nation for opposing this tyrannical abomination
Stabbings in Sydney
Last Saturday afternoon Sydneysiders in particular and Australians as a whole were horrified and traumatised as a lone man prowled…
Wong again
Warning, satire: In international news this week, the Israeli government has announced it plans to send a special envoy to…
Out of touch
In exciting news this week, the Prime Minister announced that a retired coal miner from Cessnock who now runs a…
Hamas resurrected?
The duplicity and the cynicism of the Biden administration knows no bounds. By choosing to abstain from a Chinese/Russian-sponsored UN…
Trump’s lightbulb moment
It was certainly an entertaining moment in an interview between former British politician Nigel Farage and his good friend former…
Sam’s own goal
‘WATCH UNDER!’ was the warning cry made famous by one of Australia’s original expat Aussies living in London, as he…
Beware the Nature Positive plan
Aesop warned the Greeks of the danger in about 520BC; Avianus repeated it for the Romans a century later. William…
Mandatory vindication
They were the three words of the week, if not of the year: ‘vaccine’, ‘mandates’ and ‘unlawful’. That was the…
Watchdog consumers
The news that Brad Banducci is stepping down as CEO of supermarket giant Woolworths is to be warmly welcomed. This…
Bowen’s climate idiocy
The sheer stupidity of the Albanese government and the renewables investment lobby groups would be comical if it were not…
Slash the acronyms
What to make of the Coalition’s response to the trashing of the Stage 3 tax cuts? As Judith Sloan points…
