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

Hydrogen: hype or net-zero hero?

22 October 2021 4:00 am

In the climate wars, hyperbole is weaponised and groupthink rewarded. We are standing witness as hydrogen becomes the latest trend…

What must Daniel Andrews’ Department of Fairness make of Daniel Andrews’ Victoria?

21 October 2021 5:24 pm

The Victorian Department of Fairness must be tut-tutting like a metronome in overdrive.  Its job is to work ‘hard to…

A Statement of Public Interest should accompany all government bills. Here’s why

21 October 2021 5:12 pm

Research by both right and left think tanks the Insitute of Public Affairs and Per Capita show that for all…

Pru Goward and the road to Wigan Pier

21 October 2021 2:00 pm

Has there ever been a more pathetic display of bile-reeking, attention-seeking, virtue-signalling conspicuous compassion from the woke and the wonderful…

Vaping: one policy the Kiwis have got right

21 October 2021 12:01 pm

The Asia Pacific region has been split in two as to how to best deal with vaping. No bigger is…

First lockdown, now segregation

21 October 2021 4:00 am

As New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet leads the way out of lockdowns and restrictions in Australia, a job Scott…

No choice on net-zero? Really, Prime Minister?

20 October 2021 6:11 pm

Believing we always have a choice is key to living in a free, liberal, democratic society like Australia. That’s why…

The WHO fails again – on smoking

20 October 2021 4:00 pm

Whatever reputation for competence and honesty the World Health Organisation might once have had has been destroyed by its response…

Adam Bandt is being ignored so has had to say something stupid

20 October 2021 2:01 pm

While the Liberals are flirting with net zero, the Greens are demanding peak stupid and proving themselves to be even…

Their ABC: no so trusted anymore

20 October 2021 12:10 pm

The ABC is in the headlines on almost a weekly basis for issues of its own making. The crises keep…

COP this, climate sumiteers

20 October 2021 11:23 am

Man does not live by bread alone, an early revolutionary once advised his followers.  As Glasgow’s COP26 closes in on a discombobulated world, the…

Why I should ever vote Liberal again?

20 October 2021 4:00 am

I voted Liberal in 2013 because they promised me Tony Abbott as Prime Minister. My vote was rewarded with Malcolm Turnbull.…

The climate Chicken Littles haven’t won. We’ve been here before

19 October 2021 5:40 pm

Yes, I know things look bad now. Everyone from the News Corp mastheads to the Queen of England and two…

Net zero needs nuclear power, Prime Minister

19 October 2021 5:30 pm

Scott Morrison is reported to have said when announcing the AUKUS deal “Let me be clear: Australia is not seeking to…

What about the Palestine lobby and our media?

19 October 2021 3:11 pm

Randa Abdel-Fattah is a pro-Palestinian supremo. She does gung-ho pro-Palestinianism on prime time television, using programs like the ABC’s Q&A…

Are you sure about that vaccine?

19 October 2021 12:52 pm

Figures don’t lie, my critics insist. Very well, let’s look at some figures. I make three arguments here. First, vaccines are…

Why male feminists are deeply dodgy

18 October 2021 3:58 pm

Male feminists are suss. Always have been. Always will be.  They spend their days defending girl-power and, in exchange, they…

ScoMo goes crazy on the green Kool-Aid

18 October 2021 2:19 pm

Forget the red cordial. The green is the really dangerous stuff — and Scott Morrison has a bellyful of it…

Victoria’s great Cnut

18 October 2021 12:48 pm

According to Henry of Huntingdon when Cnut the Great was King of England, Denmark and Norway he had his throne…

Education ministers must act on our woke national curriculum

18 October 2021 11:26 am

In a matter of weeks, Australia’s nine education ministers will decide the fate of the revised national curriculum released earlier…

Conservatism as a philosophy of change

18 October 2021 4:00 am

Conservatism is a philosophy of change. Not that this is well recognised by its chorus of hyperventilating critics, nor particularly…

Why won’t the advocates tell us the cost of net-zero?

17 October 2021 6:10 pm

Nowhere in the world can wind and solar compete without subsidies which drive out more competitive supplies and eventually raise…

Lockdown might be loosening but who’s in charge?

17 October 2021 4:00 pm

In his two weeks or so in office New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has done more to lift the…

The Premier pretends to say something and the people pretend to listen

17 October 2021 2:00 pm

Daniel Andrews has clearly never heard the dictum by psychologist and philosopher Ernst von Glasersfeld “you can’t not communicate.”  Giving…

What price the truth of the story of white settlement?

17 October 2021 11:50 am

If truth were a commodity, you’d short sell it.  Think the Coates enquiry into hotel quarantine, cheap renewables and so…