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

Whoopi Goldberg, Disney’s hypocrisy, and how ‘Critical Race Theory’ makes you stupid

13 February 2022 11:00 am

Whoopi Goldberg broke the internet last week by making painfully ignorant claims on The View about the Holocaust – and then being…

Politicians are talking a lot of ship!

13 February 2022 7:30 am

Who would believe that Australia, with 60,000 kms of coastline ranking in the top seven in the world for coastline…

Canberra Freedom Convoy demands, ‘Sack them all!’

12 February 2022 9:33 pm

The Canberra Freedom Convoy is an awful lot bigger than the mainstream press would like you to believe. Although they…

Transgender school policies are a safeguarding nightmare

12 February 2022 3:00 pm

With the Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination Bill and the recent controversy over Citipointe Christian College in the spotlight, it’s worth taking the…

The winning formula: BLM vs Grid Girls

12 February 2022 1:00 pm

Formula One drivers have finally realised that taking the knee before races is a hollow, meaningless, unproductive piece of pretentious…

The presumption of innocence? Bah! says ScoMo

12 February 2022 11:00 am

The presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings, often expressed in the phrase ‘innocent until proven guilty’, is an ancient tenet…

The Liberal Party’s mission to end liberalism

12 February 2022 7:00 am

Come the next election, I will be voting the Liberal Party last. My reasoning is very simple. If I am…

Why would the West want to invade Russia?

11 February 2022 4:00 pm

A June 2016 Levada poll found that 68 per cent of Russians think NATO troops in the Baltic States and…

The hypocrisy of ‘Environmental, Social, and Governance’

11 February 2022 2:00 pm

After I started my business more than 30 years ago, I joined a group of fellow owners and CEOs who…

Which bread are you...?

11 February 2022 12:00 pm

There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about what type of bread each of us identifies with. According…

‘Fair trial’ derailed by the Prime Minister

11 February 2022 9:00 am

This week’s parliamentary apology to Brittany Higgins was greeted by lawyers everywhere with a gasp of incredulity that our Prime…

The false propaganda of racism

11 February 2022 4:00 am

As a boy growing up in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, I was used to seeing violence and cruelty.…

Never again: a manifesto on freedom

10 February 2022 2:00 pm

I can clearly remember walking around Sydney harbour on Australia Day in 2020. My partner and I meandered through The…

Perrottet fancies a bit of Bega

10 February 2022 12:00 pm

Dominic Perrottet obviously thinks Bega is in play at the by-election on Saturday judging by his presence last week in…

Mob hysteria

10 February 2022 10:26 am

While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have…

Man bites dog

10 February 2022 9:00 am

This is what happens when the self-appointed preachers of tolerance and respect don’t get their way. LGBTQ activists have covered…

Civility? It’s empathy we need

10 February 2022 4:00 am

Following leaked text messages showing the way politicians can talk behind closed doors, Grace Tame’s rudeness towards the Prime Minister,…

The basics (and evils) of Cultural Marxism

9 February 2022 2:00 pm

Readers might be aware of Cultural Marxism, contained within the academic field of Critical Theory as a collection of heavily…

Letter from New York – where empathy is exhausted

9 February 2022 12:00 pm

This week, in one carriage of the New York City subway, there were seven homeless people taking shelter on an…

History on the side of Barnaby Joyce

9 February 2022 9:00 am

The ambush on Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison at his Canberra Press Club address last week was extraordinary. So too…

The greater good - or a grander evil?

9 February 2022 4:00 am

Every time I hear some middling news reporter parrot ‘for the greater good’ in reference to whatever the next absurd…

The Liberals are a lost cause

8 February 2022 2:00 pm

For some time, the Liberal Party has been walking a dangerous path, one lined with terrible policies and dodgy backroom…

Australia desperately needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission

8 February 2022 12:00 pm

Talk about missing the point… All those clamouring for a federal corruption commission to be an election issue have so…

Israel confounds the promise of vaccines as the way out of Covid

8 February 2022 9:00 am

Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it…

Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus

8 February 2022 4:00 am

Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with…