In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Liberal Democrats in the fight for South Australia
South Australia’s state election is set to kick off on Saturday where Liberal Premier Steven Marshall and his team will…
Sorry kids, there’s no ‘duty of care’ on climate change
In news that would surprise only the most casual of observers, the inestimably appealable Judge Mordecai Bromberg has once more…
Managing ‘misinformation’ in the world of deep-fake
The world is increasingly revolving around data with each year that passes. Every technological advancement or new iteration of the…
Radical gender theory starts in kindergarten
A recent research paper titled Parents’ perspectives on the inclusion of gender and sexuality diversity in K-12 schooling: results from an…
Virtuous ABC’s parallel universe
ABC Managing Director, David Anderson, has devoted his entire career to the national broadcaster. It shows. In a recent extraordinary…
Australia’s declining volunteer society
Expectations of the role of the federal government rose substantially during the bushfires which spread across the eastern states in…
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one… On October 25,…
Why Ukraine matters – a short telegram
Seventy-six years ago in a US embassy after dark, America’s man in Moscow dispatched a message that would set the…
The bullying of Kimberley Kitching
In-depth reports from ideologically-opposite sources – Shaun Carney of The Age and Sharri Markson of The Australian – appear to…
The ‘Hazzard’ of government health
‘But mummy, am I going to die?’ Such a statement isn’t something anyone wants to hear. Yet it happened. It…
Power not poverty
‘The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous.’ – Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is…
‘Warmists’ believe good governments can stop bad weather
What are we to make of politicians and commentators blaming this year’s floods on the Morrison government? Hyper-partisanship explains some…
Pope Francis must resign
Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope for the ostensible reasons of stemming the flow of the faithful away from the Church…
Ukraine-Russia war: have we learned the lessons of history?
War in Europe is well underway and within the first fortnight, most are wondering what effect the range of trade…
What happens to activism when the click-bait frenzy ends?
The news of a man who has become pregnant probably won’t make the right-leaning tabloid media like it used to.…
The war front is closer than you might like
Trouble at home, trouble abroad. Australia is being challenged at a number of levels, but there are some common themes.…
A Twitter war could bring down the International Space Station
‘Twitter is not real life!’ insist ‘professional’ political commentators. Their denials grow weaker as the prime ministers and presidents of…
Muzzling children to keep politicians happy
The Victorian government has finally scrapped mask mandates for most indoor settings as the number of Omicron cases continue to fall, and…
Men can’t do anything right
Men can’t do anything right, and International Women’s Day proved it. The New Zealand All Blacks marked the day by…
The bride of tyranny
The Trojan Horse of globalism is the extension of the world’s constant regional battles into terrifying wars that encompass the…
The era of unprecedented ignorance
What else could go wrong? First, we had a global pandemic. Then we had to deal with the devastating impacts…
Speak loudly and wave around wet lettuce: Morrisonian national insecurity
The expression, ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’, is attributed to former American President Theodore Roosevelt. Imperfect as his…
Is anyone bothering to calculate the ‘carbon-cost’ of war?
Does anyone still buy the headline that our world leaders believe we’re on the verge of a climate apocalypse? The…
Where are the strategists and tacticians?
There’s nothing like the whiff of distant grapeshot to energise Australia’s plethora of armchair military strategists. Military professionals, on the…
The last few days (of chaos)
The afternoon sunlight creeps down the wall and as the day trades its heat for the intensity of evening’s deeper…
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Minister Marles unfit for military service
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There’s a new conservative Liberal leader in town. Get behind him
