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Pirate Pete needs a tinfoil bandanna
Poor Pirate Pete. His progressive poll on who the populace think will be the next US President produced a perplexing…
Don’t trendy economic types believe catastrophe is good for the economy? Why are they silent now?
It is the Keynesians who believe that disasters are good for economic growth. They have suggested that events such as…
Finally, systemic racism in the maternity ward has been brought to public attention
Last Ship, Nightflyers and Queen & Slim star Jodie Turner-Smith gave birth at home rather than in a hospital because…
Why not let vets carry out euthanasia? Another day at the office and all that…
There were a lot of happy people mid-July when Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission announced another investigation into the actions…
A new pragmatism, not old dogma, is needed to tackle economic corona catastrophe
Startling figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics give us a taste of the poison that is COVID-19 on our…
We’ve only just begun…
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Fresh off the email from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: Labour Force, Australia, July 2020.…
Will Victoria’s quarantine disaster see ministers – or their bureaucrats – in the dock?
It’s hard for Victorians not to be angry over the Covid-19 crisis. You can almost feel the widespread fury directed…
Bleak thoughts from Bleak City
I was with the best minds of my generation – chartered accountants, real estate agents, Instagram influencers living off the…
How our aged care system robs the elderly
Is this on a scale of how low do you go? So there is a new virus doing the rounds.…
Ronald Reagan’s words ring louder than ever: freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
Living in a democracy has responsibilities. Acceptance of different ideas and the right for people to have opposing views is one…
The National Black Hole Network
Perhaps thinking he was helping to promote the financial strength of the NBN, Tony Boyd noted in the Australian Financial…
We can still have a V-shaped corona recovery. Here’s how
The shutdown in Victoria is devastating the state economy retarding the national recovery. The data on which a picture actual…
A Sheean VC will right some of the wrong done to the Navy
If Teddy Sheean does receive a Victoria Cross, as the Prime Minister has recommended today, it will right a wrong…
No more canapés at Davos. Globalisation as we know it is over
Among other measures, Microsoft would ensure that all private data of TikTok’s American users is transferred to and remains in…
Respect will never fade away
In the coming weeks, Australia will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. It seems only yesterday…
The superannuation skimmers
When it comes to sneaky and deceptive ways to separate citizens from their money, there is no better system than…
We’re not all in this together: the public, not the pols or pen-pushers, will bear the costs of lockdown
As Victoria is plunged back into lockdowns, with those in greater Melbourne facing unprecedented restrictions on their every move, the…
EXCLUSIVE: Go Fund… what, exactly?
When Angy Ngo, Editor-at-large at Post Millennial gave evidence to US Congress about Antifa on August 5, he shone a…
Since when was it the Press Council’s job to adjudicate on science? The APC’s stitch-up of Ian Plimer and attack on free speech
On November 21, 2019, The Australian published an article on its opinion pages and online titled; ‘Let’s Not Pollute minds…
Forget Pericles and pals. What matters is that Victorians aren’t getting answers from their government
As early reports of the devastation of Pearl Harbor filtered into Prime Minister John Curtin’s office that fateful day in…
Kohler QC and Modern Monetary Theory
Ah. Now we get it. Alan Kohler isn’t pushing Modern Monetary Theory — despite all appearances to the contrary. No,…
No fuel, no fires.
The independent New South Wales bushfire inquiry — led by former NSW Police deputy commissioner Dave Owens and former NSW…
Why I am not a libertarian but keep getting called one – and why you should care
It started five or six years ago. I was defending what I took to be some basic value of mainstream…
The great koala scam
Europeans learnt of koalas a decade after they arrived. John Price was shown some dung by a convict who’d lived…
The mindblowing cost of lockdown: we hope it was worth it, quarantine workers
Out today: the latest figures for the cost of lockdown in Danandrewstan. Mindblowing. $15 billion for the Jobkeeper extension. $12…
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