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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Nuclear: the age of immortal energy

9 August 2022 3:00 am

‘Carbon dioxide poses a dilemma for the radical environmentalists. Since nuclear reactors emit almost no carbon dioxide, how can one…

Lozza is a legend

8 August 2022 12:43 pm

Laurence Fox – the British actor cancelled for famously flopping over in exhaustion after being dismissed as a ‘white, privileged male’ by…

Constitutional change could be catastrophic

8 August 2022 10:00 am

Politicians seek constitutional reform to expand their power, not serve the people

Unfair contracts

8 August 2022 8:00 am

Get ready for a profound disruption to some core big business operations in Australia. The Albanese government has committed to…

Labor’s Climate Bill is an economic precipice

8 August 2022 4:00 am

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Grievance politics will never reconcile

7 August 2022 8:00 am

Recognition, reconciliation, closing the gap, a Voice … all bundled into a grievance package squeezing the guilt out of contemporary…

Do North Sea birds dream of giant spinning machetes?

7 August 2022 4:00 am

Gutting the agricultural industry via nitrogen bans isn’t the only bad idea washing around Europe’s climate elite. Four ‘virtuous’ nations…

The authentic Church is not Woke

6 August 2022 8:00 am

Woke: A collectivist mindset that requires absolute, unquestioning obedience to the current thing, to display that you are a good…

A second-hand private jet? How dare!

6 August 2022 4:00 am

Another day, another shortage. Could anything be worse than living through the dreaded toilet paper wars or the more recent…

Trump's 'Fox ban' wishful thinking by Democrats

5 August 2022 1:50 pm

In the most outrageous piece of transference bias, the left-liberal New York Times reported that Fox News had not invited Donald…

Sydney to host World Pride 2023 during a Monkey pox emergency

5 August 2022 11:30 am

Hullo, hullo! Are there any investigative journalists left in Sydney? When there was a Covid surge in India last April,…

Fascism pretending to be manners

5 August 2022 10:00 am

Notoriously, the very brief tenure as Liberal Party leader of Alexander Downer came to a shuddering halt in January 1995…

What is the true purpose of 'The Voice'?

5 August 2022 7:30 am

There are two elements to this proposed Voice referendum. The Voice itself and its inclusion in the Constitution. The latter…

Empty Space: Silicon Valley’s war against victims

5 August 2022 4:00 am

The third world is full of silent victims. Impoverished nations ruled by dictators, or those left to fend for themselves…

Australia Day (dangerous) Melbourne Pride (safe)

4 August 2022 12:30 pm

Just three days after Daniel Andrews expressed doubts about whether it would be safe to hold an Australia Day Parade,…

Mandating minimum apartment sizes a step backward?

4 August 2022 11:00 am

There is an argument to be made that mandating the minimum size of apartments is a step backward in the…

Dutton goes nuclear

4 August 2022 9:00 am

Peter Dutton’s election to Liberal Party leader has served as a belated victory for those who wanted to see Malcolm…

Losing trust in ‘the science’

4 August 2022 7:00 am

I spent a decade living in New Zealand as a member of the NZ Skeptics. We would mock those who…

Labor-Greens marriage produces forty new bills!

4 August 2022 4:00 am

There is an ominous buzz in the new Australian Parliament where Albo and the Greens are planning to pass 40…

Australia cannot ignore the submarine wars

3 August 2022 10:00 am

On my first trip to sea as a 16-year-old cadet, I was on the main deck observing the ship gracefully…

Pelosi: a caged canary lost in the Pacific

3 August 2022 7:10 am

Last night, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was shipped into Taiwan like a little caged canary sent to assess the…

Al Gore compares 'climate deniers' to the Uvalde police

3 August 2022 7:00 am

Ex US Vice-President Al Gore recently compared those who are not on board with his extreme and elitist idea of climate activism…

The end of medicine?

3 August 2022 4:00 am

Freedom of speech for the medical profession is under threat in Australia

Diversity or hypocrisy?

2 August 2022 11:30 am

‘Diversity’ is a kind of magical word that is summoned by the political class in place of an actual argument,…

The war on motherhood

2 August 2022 10:00 am

Women have come a long way in the struggle for equality in society, but what started as a noble project…