Norm Macdonald, that plain-speaking Canadian comic who died this month, aged 61, showed us how to respond with humour and…

I hold no brief for P Hanson who is a vacuous, shallow opportunist. Neither do I know Jessica Rowe who,…

November’s COP 26 meeting should be shifted from Glasgow in Scotland to Reykjavík in Iceland. Twenty-five previous meetings of this…

Western Australia is increasingly a country of its own under Mark McGowan, so we shouldn’t be surprised that it’s pursuing…

How Gladys Berejiklian has fallen. It’s been just five months from her The woman who saved Australia front page of the…

While the commonwealth government is yet to table the revised version of its Freedom of Religion Bill there’s no doubt…

Mandating or coercing COVID vaccination is one of the most important civil liberties issues of my lifetime. It’s a fundamental…

In the prologue to the UN Glasgow meeting on climate change, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been preparing the ground for…

Policymakers have impinged on the freedoms of the most disadvantaged members of society – smokers. From 1 October 2021, it…

Victoria today:  242 days in lockdown; 11,018 active Covid cases; 1,438 new infections, 856 deaths Under 50% of the population…

The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show Podcast is BIG but not big enough to include alternate views, apparently. Journalism is…

Some former politicians and commentators are suggesting there be an ‘independent’ review in the form of a royal commission to…

The nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen’s greatest fear when thinking about the future has come true. He said “What I’m…

It’s been a big week for Daniel Andrews. He has revealed that his “roadmap” out of lockdown is as reliable…

Victoria’s workplace safety authority has charged the state health department with 58 breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act…

Amidst general gloom and doom, there’s been a small ray of light, showing that sometimes scare campaigns and endless demonisation…

Afghanistan sits in the middle of everyone’s infrastructure projects like a pigeon shitting on a chessboard. The world has two options: it…

The court of review in Britian last week set aside the 2020 Bell Vs Tavistock Divisional Court decision that persons…

I recently saw this acronym for COVID.  C = Censor   O = Oppress  V = Victimise  I = Isolate  D = Divide  In a country that…

This is one of those bonus weeks for poll wonks when we get a Newspoll on Monday and the fortnightly…

JobKeeper saved Australia from a deep recession.  Labor knows this is true. They know that for the 3.8 million Australians…

The extraordinary 1988 John Hillcoat/Nick Cave film Ghosts … of the Civil Dead is set in a slightly futuristic high-tech…

Does Victoria actually have a virus roadmap? When you compare Daniel Andrews’ remarks with Gladys Berejiklian’s, a stark divide emerges.…

Last week, the ABC aired its latest British borrowing, the first episode of a documentary program called ‘The school that…

Exactly fifty years ago, the world’s first refuge for women fleeing domestic violence opened in London. After her small Chiswick terrace quickly filled to…