In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Danistan: extending or exiling an era
An era is about to continue or end in Victoria. I preference the latter. Victorians are a measured lot and…
Bill Shorten is right about mothers
If Australian government records are to be believed, 55 men gave birth to babies in 2014-15. Those are the official…
Politicians destroy nuclear when the world needs it most
Human advancement has rested on harnessing increasingly dense sources of energy from non-human origins. Animal power, burning wood, wind technology,…
Inequality resides at the heart of the sexual revolution
The thesis of the sexual revolution was a fantasy. We need to return to reality.
WHO declares Monkeypox a public health emergency
The last we heard of the official advice for Monkeypox was – uh – to avoid casual group sex with…
Non-birthing parent Adam Bandt angers mothers
Sperm-donor and non-birthing parent Adam Bandt – who problematically refers to himself as ‘dad of two’ in his social media…
Big Pharma: a petroleum-dependent industry under attack by climate warriors
There is a war brewing between the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids who demand free healthcare and the socialist-lite mask-wearing kids gluing…
Hero or Villain? The plot to cancel Captain Cook
Attempts are being made to cancel Samuel Griffith from his prominent role in Australian history, inevitably pushed by the university…
Novak Djokovic versus the Rule of Law
Earlier this week, our magazine weekly columnist, Ramesh Thakur, made an impassioned defence of tennis champion and unvaccinated Serb, Novak…
Climate scientists have lost their minds
Forget about rescuing the medical profession. Australia has a generation of chief health officers and doctors who can’t bring themselves…
Burning biomass fuels climate stupidity
Some of us have always known that climate hysteria causes malfunctions in the brain. (The precise medical term is ‘Subject…
Rugby Australia needs to chill out
Rugby Australia has threatened to ban a football fan for yelling abuse at England coach Eddie Jones on Sunday night.…
Politicians are not evolving as fast as Covid
It has been more than two years since China unleashed Covid onto the world, and with no end in sight,…
Knock-knock: offensive by nature
Recently, someone told me a knock-knock joke, and I deemed it offensive and insensitive. The subject matter was itself not…
Djokovic and the US Open: let him play
Novak Djokovic has won Wimbledon, the second major tennis tournament this year to be plagued by self-inflicted wounds following the…
Jeremy Clarkson torments Twitter by enjoying summer
I was up at a scary hour this morning when I stumbled across Jeremy Clarkson braising a few thousand Twitter…
Has Australia become an elective dictatorship?
The responses of the Australian government to the Covid pandemic had an overwhelming impact on the enjoyment of our basic…
Russia didn’t get the memo about pronouns
Russian officials are openly mocking America’s embrace of transgenderism – taunting America to ‘keep going’. The ridicule came after a…
Australia’s renewable energy superpower fantasy
One of Prime Minister Albanese’s favourite three-word slogans is ‘renewable energy superpower’. It comes from Ross Garnaut’s 2019 policy propaganda…
The world’s slowest apocalypse
If you believe the hype, this is the most dangerous time in history to be a human. There’s an apocalypse…
Biden: Divider-in-Chief
One of the media’s beloved titles for President Donald Trump was ‘Divider-in-Chief’. Well-deserved at times, the moniker was even used…
Australia’s Catholic Church: politics, paganism, and pandering
The Catholic Church is one of the oldest institutions in the world, and it has long held to the values…
Australia in race to host COP 29 in 2024
It’s the prize no sane country wants to win, but Labor – egged on by the Pacific Islands – is…
What do we really know about the IPCC?
Having concluded the latest Climate Change talk-fest – the United Nations COP26 in 2021 in Glasgow – the confected outburst…
Victorian Liberals: left of Labor?
Since when does a centre-right political party win office by proposing policies even further to the left than its centre-left…
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