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

China’s wolf warriors now sound like Q&A panellists – and that’s a real worry

29 April 2021 5:30 pm

China’s wolf warriors have spent the week snarling away at Australia, but one attack has really stood out. It came…

The ATO is a threat to the rule of law

29 April 2021 3:32 pm

You’d think that the Australian Taxation Office shouldn’t present a threat to the rule of law in Australia. You’d think that that sort…

Our corona double standards have now gone global

29 April 2021 1:30 pm

After yet another unnecessary and damaging snap lockdown in Western Australia, government hypocrisy has once again been exposed. It seems…

Mike Pezzullo would not have sent his ‘drums of war’ message without the PM’s blessing

29 April 2021 11:30 am

The hottest topic this week has been the Anzac Day message sent to his staff by Home Affairs Secretary, Mike…

REVEALED: Al Gore’s real climate catastrophe

29 April 2021 4:00 am

Next month is the thirtieth anniversary of the most entertaining and damning chapter in Al Gore’s career. By the mid-nineteenth…

What genius decided to invite Clementine Ford to the consent conversation?

28 April 2021 5:37 pm

Despite what raging left-wing lunatics are screaming in your poor, bleeding ears, consent will never be a simple issue.   Add one human being…

The science is unsettled? The SpecOz settled that years ago

28 April 2021 3:51 pm

The title of the new book, Unsettled, could refer to the effect it will have on readers who believe in…

Why should we all pay for Annastacia Palaszczuk’s vanity Olympics?

28 April 2021 1:58 pm

Pain heals. Glory lasts forever. And longer than that lasts the bill for hosting the Olympics.  Scott Morrison this week agreed that…

It can’t be a supermoon if it’s not gender inclusive

28 April 2021 12:11 pm

Were you aware that only two per cent of moon craters are named after women?  Neither was I, until I…

It’s everyone’s task to face up to Beijing’s bullies

28 April 2021 4:00 am

In Churchill’s “finest hour” speech, perhaps the ultimate highlight in the career of history’s greatest Briton, he beseeched his people to…

Mr Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

27 April 2021 7:58 pm

A kiss on the hand may be quite continental/And Mr Wang’s my new best friend…  Well, it certainly looked like…

Why is Pirate Pete scared of Craig Kelly?

27 April 2021 5:12 pm

Peter FitzSimons, the man who would be ‘king’ of Australia if he got his republican wish, has revealed how little the…

Mark McGowan, the premier who cried “wolf”

27 April 2021 1:30 pm

Today, I write to you from the People’s Republic of Westralia shortly after the end of our ‘circuit-breaking’ lockdown. Mark McGowan has said…

A Christian believes he is doing God’s work? Well stop the presses and hold the front page

27 April 2021 11:00 am

Two things happened last Tuesday involving religion. See if you can guess which one caused Leftists’ heads to explode Last…

The facts on compulsory coronavirus vaccination in the workplace 

27 April 2021 4:00 am

Last week the Nine newspapers reported a Fair Work Commission decision to uphold the right of an employer, in this case major…

How much do you really pay in tax?

26 April 2021 6:25 pm

The Budget’s around the corner and income tax is already being debated. Income tax is easy to calculate. But filing…

How the premiers are keeping us at home

26 April 2021 4:31 pm

Another weekend, another lockdown. Brisbane at the end of March, now Perth. It’s probably only because someone sensible is filling…

Can ScoMo learn from BoJo and regain his poll mojo?

26 April 2021 2:38 pm

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson should be on the political ropes. He is in open warfare with his embittered former…

PVO's real problem with Scott Morrison? He won the 2019 election

26 April 2021 12:30 pm

Political commentator Peter van Onselen’s just-released book about the Prime Minister is, like eternal damnation, well worth avoiding if the…

Their ABC’s ‘victim’ of Anzac Day

26 April 2021 4:00 am

Sunday was Anzac Day and, unsurprisingly, the ABC had a crack at this important commemoration for being *checks notes* not…

Hooray for Hollywood

25 April 2021 5:36 pm

I must confess that I have never enjoyed the off-stage antics of entertainers as I have since Trump was elected.…

Lest we forget… the planet is doomed

25 April 2021 3:46 pm

It’s getting to the stage where The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are becoming so unreadable you don’t even…

Mark McGowan, WA’s lazy lord of the lockdown

25 April 2021 2:07 pm

For the second time in less than three months, the Wester Australian Premier Mark McGowan has locked up two million…

Spectator Australia TV: Lionel Shriver on Biden’s spending spree – and more

25 April 2021 12:00 pm

Five years ago, a novel warned of a dark, disturbing, and dystopian image of the US. Now in 2021, this…

The challenge of Anzac Day, 2021

25 April 2021 4:00 am

The extended ADF community has possibly never been so divided against itself as it is right now. The ADF’s current…