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

The minister for net zero and dystopian hellscapes

20 January 2023 4:00 am

‘Australians, you shall decarbonise. Electricity bills shall go up, energy security shall go down, and damage to the environment shall…

Jacinda Ardern resigns: the beginning of the end for Labour?

19 January 2023 1:30 pm

‘I don’t have enough in the tank,’ complained 42-year-old Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand. ‘For me, it’s time,’…

Robert Kennedy Jnr launches landmark antitrust lawsuit

19 January 2023 7:00 am

Anthony Fauci critic, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, has launched a landmark lawsuit challenging mainstream media for its alleged blanket censorship of Covid content. The…

UK blocks Scotland’s controversial self-ID Bill. Will Queensland follow?

19 January 2023 5:00 am

Something incredible happened this week. In a historic move, the UK government has blocked Scotland’s controversial self-ID Bill (the Gender Recognition…

Albanese: ‘shadow politics’ and the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty

19 January 2023 4:00 am

The old adage, ‘what you don’t know can’t hurt you’ does not apply to politics. What political leaders do in…

How to become a climate pariah in 10 easy steps

18 January 2023 12:00 pm

My father, I feel, was defamed at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…

From prince to toad

18 January 2023 8:00 am

A few years ago, Prince Harry was one of the most popular British Royals. As a boy, he lost his…

Buy our milk or the Earth will perish!

18 January 2023 6:00 am

Western Europe has a problem. France has it worst. Germanic countries are fighting a rearguard action and only Denmark is…

MSM: gone with the wind

18 January 2023 4:00 am

We are living through arguably one of the greatest divides the Western world has ever experienced and on the night…

Vale, great soldier

17 January 2023 2:22 pm

Along with the rest of Australia, I awoke this morning to hear the news of Senator Major-General Jim Molan’s passing…

Tony Abbott: Jim Molan, Australia’s fearless patriot

17 January 2023 11:58 am

Tony Abbott: statement on Jim Molan Jim Molan will be remembered as a fearless patriot who served our country with…

Peter Dutton: Vale Jim Molan

17 January 2023 10:14 am

Statement on the passing of Senator Jim Molan It is with great sadness that we received the news of the…

Mothers like mine

17 January 2023 10:01 am

We said goodbye to my mother last week. We committed her body and then celebrated her life. As I thought…

Another fatal flaw in ‘the Voice’

17 January 2023 8:00 am

There are many problems with the proposed Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’. They include rewriting the Constitution to create two classes…

WEF Watch: the world is ending

17 January 2023 6:00 am

The private jets have landed in Davos for the 2023 Bond villain meeting – sorry – I mean the closed-door…

To the end, Cardinal Pell urged conservatives to ‘use their votes’

17 January 2023 5:00 am

In his last television interview, Cardinal George Pell was asked why he was targeted and jailed for child sex abuse before…

Net Zero: a herbivore in a world of carnivores

17 January 2023 12:00 am

In nature, carnivores dominate herbivores – and so it is with big power politics. A Net Zero world means the…

Skyscrapers in the sea: are they killing our whales?

16 January 2023 8:00 am

Offshore wind turbines have a growing list of serious problems undermining their future sustainability, but few things look worse for…

Anything but Christianity! (Or mum and dad)

16 January 2023 7:00 am

News that ‘Christmas and Easter will not be celebrated in some childcare centres under new inclusion guidelines’ is, quite extraordinary.…

Queensland trade unions – a monopoly?

16 January 2023 6:00 am

In Australian politics, the Labor Party has typically cast itself as the defenders of the rights of working people. Yet…

Collapse of the $35 billion Sun Cable

16 January 2023 4:00 am

Last week saw the collapse of Sun Cable, a pie-in-the-sky $35 billion plan by alternative energy enthusiasts, Andrew Forrest and…

‘Howitzer Harry’: shots fired

15 January 2023 8:00 am

Let’s face it, Harry Windsor has taken the ‘festive season’ seriously and kept us all mightily amused with his ripping…

M&M’s: saving women one calorie at a time

15 January 2023 7:00 am

I’ve never really thought of M&M’s as having a gender when they disappear from the packet and head straight to…

The old man’s tale

15 January 2023 6:00 am

The councilman was adamant: ‘The Law must have its way, The shed you built is not approved It must come…

The corporate church

15 January 2023 4:00 am

Corporate culture is an absolute curse on society that corrupts everything it touches. Woke policies, left-wing ideals, and a severe…