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

Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement?

7 July 2021 7:07 pm

Another week, another viral video in the gender wars.  This week we have a Black American woman in a Californian spa, horrified at the sight…

Covidphobia: a fear for our age

7 July 2021 3:23 pm

If you were asked, “What is your phobia?”, how would you answer? Traditionally, people have spoken of a fear of…

Hell no, she can’t go

7 July 2021 12:00 pm

Annastacia Palaszczuk should absolutely be denied an exemption to leave Australia.   Queenslanders are just picking up the pieces after another foolish lockdown, families separated…

The Laura Tingle-Julia Banks ‘interview’ further undermines the ABC

7 July 2021 4:00 am

On Monday night I saw another nail in the coffin of quality journalism on the ABC. It was what could…

The problem with Covid sticks and carrots? Citizens aren’t horses

6 July 2021 5:03 pm

It is one thing to protest your innocence to a crime that you did not commit, but quite another to…

The Lord of the Woke

6 July 2021 3:00 pm

James Ronald Ruel Tolkien was an English academic with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon languages and legends and philology. He…

Political cowardice has a price 

6 July 2021 1:02 pm

The cowardice of our political overlords has a price, and usually that price is not paid by these decision-makers but…

Julia, you should have gone to the police, not the ABC

6 July 2021 11:02 am

Another day, another anti-Morrison whinger decides to jump aboard the bandwagon to sit alongside miserable ghost Malcolm Turnbull and his…

Back to ‘Big Australia’? Not so fast

6 July 2021 4:00 am

If there were a hint of a silver lining in the Covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, it may be…

Truth on social media? Geoffrey Robertson is keen

5 July 2021 7:22 pm

Truth on social media? It’s a wonderful idea, one espoused by high profile human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson on Sky…

Banks’ blunder

5 July 2021 5:08 pm

One-term MP Julia Banks has written a book based on what she broadly terms the horrors of working in Parliament…

A Reader’s Digest manifesto for our new woke military?

5 July 2021 3:12 pm

ITEM: The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Saturday, July 3 2021: The Australian Defence Force has turned to some of the world’s…

NAIDOC Woke

5 July 2021 2:13 pm

It’s NAIDOC Week. Aboriginal elites, corporate virtue-signallers and politicians, cheered on by the media but especially the ABC and SBS, will…

A friendly reminder: Anthony Albanese is completely bloody useless

5 July 2021 12:00 pm

After last Monday night’s AstraZeneca slip of the tongue announcement, Scott Morrison simply vanished for three days until National Cabinet…

REVEALED: National Cabinet’s plans for vaccine segregation

5 July 2021 4:00 am

Australia has become the laughing-stock of the world. While other nations open up, winding back restrictions, allowing their citizens to…

God is non-binary. Apparently…

4 July 2021 4:11 pm

You will be interested to know that the Reverend Canon Sarah Jones, the Church of England’s first ever ‘transwoman’ priest, has made…

The CCP: the most blood-soaked criminal organisation of the last century

4 July 2021 2:00 pm

Life expectancy in China is now close to 77 years so, at 100, the demise of the Chinese Communist Party…

How Berejiklian’s bureaucrats attempted to break their own Covid-19 regulations

4 July 2021 8:00 am

This weekend across New South Wales—in both city and regional areas—all churches are prohibited from livestreaming any singing during their…

The Peter Ridd case: am I missing something?

2 July 2021 1:02 pm

Yesterday’s piece by Graham Young on the Peter Ridd High Court case got me thinking.  Not about Young’s thesis that…

Do we have a constitutional right to free speech?

2 July 2021 4:00 am

“Freedom of speech may not be protected by Australia’s constitution, high court judge says,” screamed a recent headline in The…

Find the CO2

1 July 2021 7:16 pm

Man-made carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is responsible for catastrophic climate change, according to climate alarmists. We must stop…

They don’t have safe spaces in North Korea

1 July 2021 5:15 pm

If you still have a copy of the important 1976 volume by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A Warning to the West, it will be worth…

Don’t moralise about sex work

1 July 2021 3:01 pm

There are a lot of myths surrounding prostitution. Chief among them is the claim that sex workers are virtual slaves,…

What do the ABC and the Chinese Communist Party have in common?

1 July 2021 12:49 pm

With all the attention being paid to the Chinese Communist Party’s birthday, we thought it only fair that our beloved…

The Peter Ridd case is too important to be left to the courts

1 July 2021 4:00 am

A lot rides on the case of Ridd v JCU, which was heard last Wednesday, June 23, 2021, in the High…