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

Crime before coal?

9 December 2020 8:38 pm

The chair of one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, Mary Sum of the Plate Group, has announced that its…

Dear feminists: bore off with your language policing

9 December 2020 6:01 pm

We all know that the media has been hijacked by the left. As 2020 draws to a close, I’ll happily…

#WeGoBrokeWithDan

9 December 2020 4:05 pm

Guess which state or territory has the worst credit rating?  Before answering, let me explain what a credit rating is.…

Why the war on ‘the gig economy’ when in reality ‘permanency’ is insecurity?

9 December 2020 2:07 pm

The demand by Australian unions to turn, it seems, all jobs into ‘permanent’ has been mugged in the blink of…

Sun Tzu and the Art of Trade

9 December 2020 5:00 am

Around 2,500 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu wrote his masterpiece, the Art of War.  This treatise is…

China strife? Blame Canberra’s acronym alphabet soup

8 December 2020 7:41 pm

A World War I slogan in the Kaiser’s Germany proclaimed ‘When the bayonet goes in, it should hit steel, not…

Tim Smith’s gender confusion

8 December 2020 5:01 pm

Policians are finding it hard to think straight when it comes to gay conversion laws. Take Victorian Liberal MP Tim…

The Victorian Liberals silent anniversary

8 December 2020 12:12 pm

Ten years ago Ted Baillieu broke the Liberal’s post-Kennett electoral drought by leading his party back into power in Victoria. …

The crushing lack of curiosity of the MSM

8 December 2020 5:00 am

The legacy news media appears determined to nail down its own coffin-lid, as its former viewers and readers are forced to seek…

The rise of toxic femininity

7 December 2020 7:18 pm

The days of women merely fighting for equal opportunity have long since ceased. According to Christina Hoff Summers, the goal of…

WA Labor’s bizarre bout of Murdoch madness

7 December 2020 5:04 pm

We really are in a post-truth era of politics; and for a change, Western Australia is leading the pack instead of trailing 30 years behind.…

You can’t reduce debt by taking on more debt

7 December 2020 3:08 pm

Pop. That is the sound of the pin of reality piercing the inflated balloon of Australian economic wishful thinking. Fresh…

GDP is up, but recession conditions remain

7 December 2020 1:26 pm

The September quarter national accounts released last Wednesday have been interpreted by some commentators as heralding the end of the…

Be afraid: Victoria restarts hotel quarantine today

7 December 2020 5:00 am

Today, Monday 7 December, will be a day filled with trepidation for Victorians and all Australians. Today is the day…

The need to blame someone in the COVID-19 pandemic: a personal reflection

6 December 2020 5:57 pm

Social stigma is a damaging phenomenon. It occurs when people are associated with negatively viewed events, beliefs, and social phenomena…

Victoria’s latest gender legislation risks a future litigation tidal wave

6 December 2020 3:59 pm

In 1869, a “well-meaning” Victorian government passed the Aborigines Protection Act under which Aboriginal children could be taken from their…

Real Climate Science

6 December 2020 1:50 pm

According to Tim Flannery’s Climate Council, Aborigines ate the megafauna, so highly flammable scrub grew up and they had to…

The reef is fine but academic freedom remains in peril

5 December 2020 4:14 pm

The first images I saw of the Great Barrier Reef were in 1980s television news reports warning that the crown-of-thorns…

The Greens: we’re washed up

5 December 2020 1:25 pm

Can I interest anyone in a festive tea-towel?  The Australian Greens are flogging a new range optimistically titled ‘legends’ featuring…

The Greens: we want to change the world, so let’s first get stoned

4 December 2020 4:56 pm

I hate to admit it, but there seems little point trying to hide the obvious. We’re losing the war on…

Andrew Bolt drives the Mad F–king Witches madder still

4 December 2020 2:37 pm

Only a small handful of people can trigger the Mad F***ing Witches. Rupert Murdoch, is up there, obviously. Ditto most ‘conservative white…

Annastacia Palaszczuk’s arrogant Twits

4 December 2020 5:00 am

A Twitter incident from Wednesday last week reveals a few interesting things about the Queensland state government and modern politics…

Their ABC presents: Jimmy Barnes, the China expert of the Largs Piers Hotel

3 December 2020 7:30 pm

Jimmy Barnes is better known for his screaming than for his expertise on foreign affairs which, of course, makes him…

The compelling case for replacing stamp duty

3 December 2020 5:07 pm

Grey-haired Australians can sit on their porches and yell at lawn-trespassers to their heart’s content. But they need to stop…

What’s the magic word, Lidia? Justice?

3 December 2020 2:30 pm

As any toddler will tell you, there’s usually a way to get what you want. There’s a magic word to…