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

Ties between Delhi and Canberra crucial to Indo-Pacific security

11 November 2021 5:37 pm

The relationship between India and Australia has grown rapidly in recent years, underpinned by a convergence of security interests in…

The dictator servant

11 November 2021 2:20 pm

And here I was believing that Members of Parliament were servants of the people.  The Victorian Premier has humbled a…

The constitution and the dismissal

11 November 2021 12:00 pm

You will have heard of the rule of law, that people in positions of authority should exercise their power within a…

Why what our kids are taught could be a vote changer

11 November 2021 4:00 am

The US state of Virginia is just about as close to Washington DC as you can be, and even contains…

Mark McGowan: China, yes; open borders, no

10 November 2021 6:42 pm

Living under the McGowan regime continues to be less than ideal. And as the rest of the country emerges from…

Back for one day only, Paul Keating

10 November 2021 5:06 pm

As we were reminded many, many times 30 years ago — that’s a generation, by the way — Paul Keating…

You can't trust Labor with Medicare (if you're not double-jabbed)

10 November 2021 3:17 pm

Coronavirus has not so much changed us as unmasked us — yes, I get the irony — and what we…

Sorry, but Elon Musk can’t fix world hunger by giving his money away

10 November 2021 1:00 pm

World Food Programme director, David Beasely recently stated 2 per cent of Elon Musk’s wealth could solve world hunger, to which…

Here are some real justice issues for the climate warriors

10 November 2021 11:31 am

What a tragic shame that so much energy, time, resources and opportunities to really improve the lives of millions is…

Has Queensland turned on ScoMo for going green?

10 November 2021 4:00 am

Monday marked the last feasible date for a federal election to be called this year. There was no Newspoll that…

He Puapua?

9 November 2021 5:41 pm

Now why on earth why would the New Zealand government, dominated by the far-left Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, produce a…

Isn’t freedom an inalienable right rather than a “reward”?

9 November 2021 4:00 pm

Is freedom an inalienable right or is it a “reward” given by governments to compliant people? Listening to Queensland Premier…

The climate catastrophists’ calculus

9 November 2021 2:06 pm

Despite… still having a very poor understanding of past non-human-CO2-driven climate changes (see the Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Younger Dryas, amongst…

REVEALED: vaccine mandate court case hears bizarre government modelling claims

vaccine

9 November 2021 12:00 pm

In proceedings in the New South Wales Supreme Court last week challenging vaccine mandates, New South Wales Chief Health Officer…

There’s more to Daniel Andrews social engineering plans than the pandemic bill 

9 November 2021 4:00 am

Daniel Andrews is not a state premier so much as he is an engineer – a social engineer who is…

Victorian Labor: you can close your eyes, Dan, but the stench of sleaze won’t go away

8 November 2021 6:37 pm

Listening to dumped Victorian Labor cabinet minister, Adem Somyurek, speak today you’d swear you had stumbled into the X Files.…

Dateline Glasgow: the climate emergency wore cashmere

8 November 2021 3:53 pm

Much of the real work of COP26 appeared to diminish substantially after the leaders’ meetings concluded, and some journalists have…

How long can Marshal McGowan and his hermit kingdom stand?

8 November 2021 12:00 pm

After a piece of mine on Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan was published in The Australian back in February, a former…

Just the facts: coronavirus in Australia by the numbers – updated

8 November 2021 4:00 am

Notes:  The data below is generally current as at 4 November 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due to jurisdictional reporting…

Tim Smith did the right thing – eventually 

7 November 2021 4:14 pm

It’s rare for a state politician to get a national profile when most Australians don’t have a clue who their…

After a week, a semblance of sense on submarines

7 November 2021 2:44 pm

It’s only taken a week to get here, but at last we’re seeing some semblance of sense over Australia’s future…

COP26 and the climate cult’s schizophrenia

7 November 2021 12:01 pm

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in addressing the fashionable fiction of human-induced climate change used the hackneyed phrase “It’s one…

Childhood experiments

6 November 2021 4:30 pm

Somebody once sang that the children are our future at a baseball match in New York but they never said anything about them being the collateral damage…

Carbon capture and story? Try hemp

6 November 2021 11:46 am

Glasgow’s favourite son, Billy Connolly, once observed that the natural colour of the average Scotsman is light blue.  It takes…

Three comments on the United States

5 November 2021 2:45 pm

How many readers realise that of all 50 US States it is Florida that, as I write this, has the lowest rate…