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The Cory Show
Senator Cory Bernardi is blitzkrieging the east coast at the moment, holding a series of meetings and interviews. I caught…
Ordure in the House
We’re about to be gifted, courtesy of ‘Our ABC’ a new series hosted by Annabel Crabbe, she of the ‘take…
Since when was democracy a right wing thing?
Does it strike anyone else as ironic that the push to reform the preselection process of candidates and give grassroots…
How many safeguards are needed to make assisted suicide safe?
The Final Report of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on ‘Assisted Dying’ set up by Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews late in…
The fuel that must not be named
The lengths to which some policy makers go in a democratic society to ensure that other points of view aren’t…
The roots of terrorism
The Hindu ceremony of Shiva Sarwan is a dedication to Lord Shiva through a special pilgrimage to the Ganges on…
Just when you think Fairfax couldn’t be more idiotic
Just when you think Fairfax couldn’t go any lower, couldn’t be more asinine, they come along and surprise you. “Are…
McManusstan: the workers paradise?
Australia was introduced a new and upcoming regressive in our body politics earlier this year. This was the new Secretary…
Silencing dissent against assisted suicide
Later this week the Ministerial Advisory Panel set up by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to advise his government on a…
I’m a doubter — and a sceptic too
The Associated Press is a worldwide news agency headquartered in New York City. It issues ‘The Associated Press Stylebook’ which…
Abbott birther barminess booms
Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy… We’re not in Kansas anymore, people. You remember that Abbott birther barminess…
What shall we do about Section 44?
Did you hear the one about Senator Richard Di Natale approaching the Deep Thought super-computer and asking what’s the answer…
Blunders, boobs and Greens
It would be funny if it weren’t so… totally hilarious. Deputy Greens leader Larissa Waters has resigned from the Senate.…
Fairfax fools join the birther brigade
What else were they ever going to do? Two Green senators were forced to resign because they’re better at self-righteousness than…
The F-35 by the numbers
There are some rules of thumb in the costs of fighter aircraft. One is that the engine cost will be…
It’s the vibe…
Leftists like the Greens are constantly trying to do everything they can to dilute tradition, undermine our institutions and ultimately…
The new Home Affairs Department should be welcomed
The Prime Minister has today unveiled a national security ‘mega-department’, to be called, as guessed by the commentariat, the Department…
Islam’s “barbaric fury”
Andrew Urban has lived up to his famous namesake, Pope Urban II (1088-1099), in his warnings that evil thrives when…
It’s just a jump to the left…
If it feels like you’re doing the Time Warp again, it’s because you are. Our nominally conservative parties have been…
AFL and the biased politics of sport
Politics thrives and prospers on power. Power seeps through winning over the masses. Where are the masses in Australia? Watching…
Same old inconvenient drivel
Al Gore’s new film, An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power, opens in Australia on August 10. What a pity.…
Game of Greens
“Woeful news my lord Richard, of Ser Scott of the Greenwald, well, it turns out he’s not one of us,…
Protection? What a load of bollards
“Melbourne’s concrete bollards could slide 30 metres in a crash, warn experts.” I wasn’t in the least surprised when I…
Headscarf emancipation
In a world in which female empowerment is increasingly defined by SlutWalks, headscarves are a display of true liberation. I…
Yassmin Abdel-Magied and Marx’s detritus
Yassmin Abdel-Magied recently published a piece in The Guardian Australia lambasting her critics as being merely ‘afraid of a young…
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