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A stealth boondoggle
The NDIS is a public policy albatross, initiated with the worthiest of intentions, that has been allowed to mutate into…
The Sofronoff Express at platform ‘speed’
The Magna Carta meets the ACT’s legal system on the Sofronoff Express in what promises to be a historic and…
Glaciers, graziers, glaziers, and the strangler fig
A perfunctory search on Wikipedia informs that the Strangler Fig, Ficus watkinsiana, ‘grows on another tree, using it as physical support, while…
Covid vaccines: saviour or … ?
It’s interesting that the esteemed editor of this site [ Brownstone ] has concluded, after more than four years of cogitation, that…
Pushover conservatives will lose the culture wars
Balance does not exist in nature. As a vacuum is filled, so too must a spinning top topple, a speeding…
Winning over young men
Message to the Libs. Don’t turn off the young men – they are your best hope of regaining power. There’s…
Campus protests are a free speech test for universities
‘This is a major win.’ These were the words of a spokesperson after the University of Melbourne caved in to…
Let’s not forget why we’re here
On multiple occasions this week, I’ve found myself wondering if I was living in some dystopian alternate reality. I watched…
How long before laughter is grounds for cancellation?
Jerry Seinfeld is not just a practitioner of comedy, he’s become a philosopher of the profession and he’s arguing that…
Will the Bank of England be the first to cut interest rates?
With inflation in the UK down to 2.3 per cent now and some suggesting that the Bank of England ought…
Don’t deport little Aussie Luca
Life really can be bitter-sweet – it can throw up hurdles and roadblocks when they are least expected but sometimes, when all…
Use deadly force: Biden green-lit FBI raid to go nuclear on Trump
Damning new court documents reveal Joe Biden apparently green lighting the ‘use of deadly force’ in the FBI’s 2022 raid…
ANZ outage is nothing compared to Digital ID in a cashless society
Another day, another service outage from a major Australian bank which renders your money useless. It’s one thing for someone…
Plenty of dry eyes
The death of Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash earlier this week has been met with plenty of…
Art’s gone Woke and no longer serves the common good
Perhaps the National Gallery of Australia should be renamed the National Fringe Gallery of Australia...
The making and un-making of a feminist radical: my story
Nothing was ever said about the good that men had done and continued to do
In defence of parliamentary procedure
Gabrielle de Vietri is a member of the Victorian Parliament. In my view, it’s time she acted like it. A…
Painting Gina: National Gallery hypocrisy over cruel Rinehart portrait
It is absurd to me that Rinehart, as the portrait’s subject, seems without agency
We’re not multicultural. We have one culture. The Australian culture
Mass migration is the largest and most controversial political topic in the Western world. Come the beginning of June, mass…
Dutton dressed as lamb – things you could never say to a female Labor MP
The hypocrisy of the Left never ceases to astonish. Having created a world where ‘words are literally violence’ and pretty…
FLiRT-ing with power: Labor wastes half a billion on Covid vaccines
Forgive my French, but are they taking the p…? Health authorities and regulatory bodies have not forgotten about Covid, even…
Are people afraid to put their name on the Covid Inquiry?
Of the 2,090 submissions to the Covid Response Inquiry, 1,021 declined to permit the author’s name to be published. That’s…
A budget about (nearly) nothing
The Australian Federal Budget gave us a couple of big headlines, but most of them were fake news. The Treasurer…
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The land we forgot to remember
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Blind Freddy goes fracking
Useless politicians ignore the vast resources in our own backyard
