In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Exposing egos: unravelling ISP and GenCost
Occasionally in our ordinary lives we come across a genuine David and Goliath narrative. Picture a staunch consumer successfully defending…
The woke desire to ‘get Trump at all costs’
The fourth indictment against Donald Trump is what I like to call ‘Woke bigotry weaponising bankruptcy’. Of the people sucked into ‘get…
The spatiotemporal source of our culture war confusion
There is a growing movement of intellectuals pushing the belief that consciousness is all around us. It’s not a new idea,…
Australia’s ideologically-driven energy crisis
Labor’s energy policy won’t reduce our energy bills by $275 in 2025. When questioned about this promise in 2021, Prime…
LGBTQ+ activist tribe declares war on conservatives
In May of this year, Binary advocate, Kirralie Smith, was served with two applications for APVOs (apprehension personal violence orders) and two…
Banking is a human right: can a people’s bank save us from ESG madness?
Australia has a problem. The financial security of the nation’s citizens dangles on the threads of ‘social virtue’ spun out…
Albonocchio: Albanese struggles with truth-telling
Anthony Albanese seems to be struggling with the concept of truth-telling, at least when it comes to the topic of…
Rowan Dean: Government doesn’t work and can’t close ‘the gap’
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may not have had time to read the fine print of the Uluru Statement from the…
No more cheques in the mail
Ever had the experience of a service provider sending you an email with the message: ‘Our records show your invoice…
Net Zero is a revolutionary idea, but not all revolutions are a good idea
There is a saying that revolutionary ideas are first heretical, then they become interesting and controversial, until suddenly they are…
Affirmative consent: a seductive ‘maybe’ no longer means ‘yes’
Warren Buffett once got into trouble with a joke that touched on the matter of sexual consent. He was lucky…
Indigenous bureaucracies keep the gap alive
While reading Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien’s The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the detail you need, I was reminded of…
Matildas wouldn’t stand a chance against men
Melbournians stuck in traffic on the frequently congested Punt Road would have seen an exciting billboard last week. ‘Fair Sport for…
The widening gap of medical knowledge
No experience is wasted if we learn from it, and in the time of Covid many of us were pushed…
The Voice must make a conservative case to win
The proliferation of Vote ‘Yes’ shirts on the university campus, bumper stickers, and YouTube campaigns where the speaker is sped…
Italy’s bill to reject synthetic food passes Senate
In early 2021, Microsoft’s Bill Gates engaged in various speaking events for his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. It…
Voting ‘Yes’ for ‘designated’ jobs
On the bus in Drummoyne, Sydney, an obvious granddad with his cherubic grandson, who cheerfully ignores all worried cautions in…
Make vaccines safe again (and manufacturers liable)
Will making manufacturers liable for their products lift standards? During the pandemic, it is my belief that powerful international organisations…
When science becomes a threat to population health
‘The medical-political complex tends towards suppression of science to aggrandise and enrich those in power. And, as the powerful become…
Let’s cut to the chase: this Bill is about protecting the ‘settled science’ of ‘global boiling’
Dear Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), I write regarding the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023.…
With malice towards all, Uluru statement is no Gettysburg address
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s call for an end to ‘welcome to country’ ceremonies at public events is not racist, it…
Conservatism and the virtue of saying ‘No’
William F. Buckley said famously that: ‘A conservative is someone who stands athwart history yelling stop! at a time when no…
Can we have that $444 million back?
In 2018, the Coalition government gifted $444 million of other people’s money to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. The money…
The death of democracy? Victoria’s hush-hush Indigenous agreements
Australians are being asked to open their hearts – to be generous – to vote ‘Yes’ to something greater than…
One man’s triumph over Malthusianism
Let’s gamble. I will bet you $1,000 that in 10 years’ time any five non replenishing commodities of your choosing…
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