In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Infectious diseases remain a threat
Have we learnt anything from our past experience of infectious disease? For well over a century, pandemics and epidemics produced…
Spitting out the truth
The problems on Darwin’s buses are not new and the Transport Workers Union has long campaigned for better protection for…
Climate injustice: a personal account from a Kiwi farmer
New Zealand sheep farmers have been singled out to bear the brunt of our country’s efforts to stop the planet…
Jacinda: just go!
The Ardern regime in New Zealand has been an embarrassment to the West. During her short tenure as Prime Minister,…
A tertiary tragedy
Australia’s higher-education sector is a farce: a quasi-commercial entity, run for the benefit of select interests, and failing in its social responsibility
Desperate Dan tries ‘bread and a $15m circus’
If Netball Australia had any decency, they would reject Dan Andrews $15 million sponsorship offer. The Victoria Premier promised to…
Let’s talk Covid apologies … and reparations
If you are unvaccinated, don’t expect apologies anytime soon. Little did I, or anyone else, know three years ago that…
Decline and Fall: Biden embraces childhood trans rights
There was a time not so long ago when educated men and women read Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and…
Jack the Insider is out of bounds
For the past two and a half years, Jack the Insider (Peter Hoysted), through his columns in the Australian, has waged…
Labor abstains from nuclear weapons treaty
The big news this week on the nuclear front was not the announcement of a reactor to save Australia from…
Newspeak sabotaged the West
As the probability of war in the Indo-Pacific rises, Australia consciously jeopardises its energy security. In America, where a revolution…
Diamonds are forever: Andrews puts a ring on it
‘Bottom of the barrel politics’ is nothing new to Victorian Labor Leader Daniel Michael Andrews. He loves the contest and…
Victorian Labor: waste and rorts
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ announcement that industry super funds will support the socialisation of the energy grid will create the…
The kids aren’t alright
The Age of Anxiety has dawned. While this may be easy to dismiss as a natural corollary of the recent…
From mottos to slogans: the West is slipping
During a particularly long queue at Heathrow Airport – awaiting the pleasure of a malevolent little man, manhandling my personal…
US moves to end overfishing
As environmental awareness grows across the globe, there is one area of sustainability we don’t hear much about – the…
Locking up the world’s most liveable city
Victorian’s considering voting for a Labor government in next state election need to wake up and consider how the last…
The tribe has spoken
Once upon a time, sport was an international language. A child kicking a soccer ball in Argentina could communicate in…
HSBC’s greenwashing and the myth of stakeholder capitalism
Oh, the irony! Five months after infamously standing down its Head of Responsible Investment, Stuart Kirk, to appease a few…
Tribel war
When Elon Musk opened the birdcage, the Wokest twits flew straight into the waiting prison cell of hard-left-leaning social media…
Climate Change Police: the new CCP
The Climate Change Police. It sounds like a concept from the latest sci-fi, techno-thriller, or dystopian novel – doesn’t it?…
The cancer of Christianophobia
Mulling over the recent Andrew Thorburn injustice, I reflected on a photo on my computer. Say ‘Hello’ to a boy…
Biology refuses to play along
A company that sells tampons has been accused of lying in advertisements that insist ‘only women can have periods’. They…
Gale force hypocrisy: German Greens kill wind farm for coal mine
The world laughed last week when news spread that the Green-run government of Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia approved the removal of…
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