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

You’re bad, we’re good – the binary politics of 2022

10 March 2022 4:00 am

The current advertising campaign for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers pens a letter to the perceived closed minds of Australia accusing…

CSIRO-LGBTQQIAAP+

9 March 2022 12:00 pm

Don’t expect Australia’s peak science body to come up with a vaccine against ‘wokeness’. They are, themselves, riddled with it.…

Zelenskyy and Ukraine are unifying the West

9 March 2022 9:00 am

Lamenting an old England disappearing under modernity, Philip Larkin wrote in his poem Going, Going:  Most things are never meant. The…

Sharks, technocrats, and the post-human delusion

9 March 2022 4:00 am

Politics never interested me until a spate of shark attacks occurred at my local Ballina beach next to the river…

Green power or confusing failure?

8 March 2022 12:00 pm

I am at a loss to understand the ‘Green Movement’. I fully understand their concern about the use of fossil…

Capitulation complete for Ukraine-Russia conflict

8 March 2022 9:00 am

It cannot be any clearer: 141 countries have condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate in a vote…

Why is India holding back?

8 March 2022 4:00 am

India, like Australia, America, and Japan, is a full member of the ‘Quad’ – the new political group formed to…

The Central Bank Digital Currency is on the horizon

7 March 2022 12:30 pm

When Covid spread its shady particles around the globe, the borders of nations were profoundly meaningful as travel restrictions were…

The danger of hubris

7 March 2022 9:00 am

As the apocryphal tale of King Cnut goes, he commanded the sea: ‘You are subject to me, as the land…

The game of marriage chicken

7 March 2022 4:00 am

China is grappling with the problem of what to do with what they call ‘leftover’ women – unmarried women, often…

The ABC: where activism beats compassion

6 March 2022 11:00 am

As residents of Northern New South Wales, a region known as the Northern Rivers, are still clinging to their rooftops…

War on Wokedom

6 March 2022 9:00 am

War. It is a word dreaded by the average person who just wants to live their life in peace. But…

Elegy for Warnie

6 March 2022 4:00 am

Shane Warne is gone. An Australian is gone. An Australia is gone. That he was taken far too soon goes…

Let's not learn the wrong lessons from Ukraine

5 March 2022 1:00 pm

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has not gone according to plan. A defiant, motivated, and mobilised Ukrainian populace has put up…

The anti-free speech politicians of Australia

5 March 2022 10:00 am

Free speech is not just another one of our freedoms, it is the foundation of freedom that all our other…

A 32-year-old time capsule echoes fear of war

5 March 2022 4:00 am

I recently bought a property in a quiet rural hamlet nestled in the hills on the way to Mt Baw…

Kyiv falls: then what?

4 March 2022 2:00 pm

Taking control of Kyiv is one thing. Taking control of the entire country is quite another. But even if Putin…

Kids Helpline goes Woke

4 March 2022 12:00 pm

It shouldn’t surprise that under the heading ‘Sexual Identity’ the internet-based Kids Helpline promotes gender fluidity and diversity to children…

Stop these ‘fuelish’ policies

4 March 2022 9:00 am

‘God was on the side of the nation that had the oil.’ – Prof. Wakimura, Tokyo Imperial University. Russia is…

Watching lambs leading lions

4 March 2022 4:00 am

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Munich regarding the Ukraine crisis days before the invasion began. ‘Through those 70 years [post the…

Xi Jinping seeks to control Australia’s future

3 March 2022 3:00 pm

The current tragedy unfolding in Ukraine is a lesson to the West; history does repeat itself and we should take the lessons…

In search of monsters

3 March 2022 12:00 pm

In the final scene of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up, DiCaprio’s Dr. Randall Mindy – an astronomer who had attempted for…

Crypto politico – digital liberty for the masses?

3 March 2022 9:00 am

Cryptocurrency, a bona fide buzzword of the last few years, has taken off as a means of decentralising financial systems.…

What happens to Australia if Pax Americana fails?

3 March 2022 4:00 am

The invasion of liberal Ukraine by a revanchist Russia is as good an occasion as any to muse upon Australia’s…

Transgender activism in women's sport remains unpopular

2 March 2022 2:00 pm

As Mr Morrison comes out in favour of protecting women’s right to the safety and dignity of playing sport in…