Guest Notes
Dis-con notes
ScoMo will lose, thanks to net zero Last week I focused on the media noise over AUKUS and nuclear-powered submarines.…
Cultural notes
Heroes and villains According to a paper published by the Australian Institute of Criminology in 2020, it would seem that…
Dis-con notes
Two revolutionary ideas to keep our subs afloat In June 1989 Paul Keating memorably said, ‘I guarantee if you walk…
Euro notes
Merkel’s woeful legacy How ironic but unsurprising that Angela Merkel, for sixteen years leader of her country’s once-conservative Christian Democrats,…
Euro notes
App-artheid europe Here’s an interesting thought. Imagine Australia’s state premiers were put in charge of Europe. How would our politicians…
Aukus notes
The lost decade Australia should buy or lease a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to replace the calamitous Collins Class boats…
Covid notes
Covid kilos Throughout this pandemic, our leaders have bombarded us with slogans about the importance of social distancing, vaccinations, staying…
Kiwi notes
Freedom after speech? I recall a very fine lawyer, New Zealand’s most highly regarded QC, once saying that no law…
Euro notes
Travels with my App How the Covid tables have turned. In the pandemic’s initial stages, the Anglo world congratulated…
Cultural notes
Hobart’s historical heretics violated ‘Vitalist, unscrupulously optimistic cultures, cruel, bigoted and superstitious, all detest the grace-saving presence of the statue…
Covid notes
A day at the anti-lockdown rally When your only observations of protest marches are from television news reports, it’s easy…
Covid notes
Upholding the truth in a time of universal deceit Australia’s disproportionate March 2020 response to the Covid pandemic has morphed…
Euro notes
Europe’s rightward drift Two of the great issues which animated the woke EU establishment until recently were hatred of Donald…
Covid notes
Talkers, we need to talk.. Two things stand out almost immediately when one gets on an early morning train in…
Dis-con notes
Why no action on the ABC? What possible reason can any conservative have for voting for the Morrison government? Neil…
Euro notes
Woke juggernaut gets the wobbles It often feels as if the woke Left is omnipotent, razing all before it as…
Euro notes
Reds under the downing street beds Two unorthodox senior advisors to Number 10 deserve attention. The first and most prominent…
Euro notes
Boris Johnson’s eco-road to ruin The results of Scotland’s elections next week will dominate British politics for the foreseeable future.…
Anzac notes
Time for Rankin and Taylor to be rewarded After 78 years of injustice, finally last December 18-year- old naval sailor…
Medical notes
‘The Science’ versus science Science first became unwell when we had to suddenly accept, without any possibility of debate, the…
Euro notes
Europe’s political cross-dressers A good Tony Abbott story is that early during his time as an MP, he did a…
Euro notes
Boris & the nightmare of Lady MacStalin After Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former first minister, claimed his successor Nicola Sturgeon had…
Ancestral notes
Being David Cohen The apparent news that Joe Biden tapped me to help lead one of his new administration’s most…
Euro notes
Ursula Fond o’ Lyin’ Odd policy choices continue to bedevil Boris Johnson’s government. Almost a year after Australia started putting…
Covid notes
Beyond the quarantine fiasco While the mismanagement of the hotel quarantine in Melbourne has been in the news, a more…
