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

We also need an endgame to help corona cabin fever

22 April 2020 3:11 pm

The government needs to provide more details for their lockdown exit strategy. The lockdowns have isolated people, increased stress and…

Virgin no more

22 April 2020 1:13 pm

Yesterday, Virgin Australia announced to the ASX that it had entered into voluntary administration and that it intended to recapitalize…

Scott, Josh and Mathias: here’s how you get us out of this mess

22 April 2020 11:02 am

The Morrison government has flagged tax cuts and aggressive deregulation as part of a pro-business road to economic recovery. A…

War, death and courage

22 April 2020 5:00 am

Among the victims of coronavirus is our habit of annual pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in Turkey. And, tied to our…

We need to follow Trump and suspend immigration

21 April 2020 6:09 pm

In the years since the global financial crisis successive governments both Labor and Coalition have continued to run extremely high…

Flattening the curve or just muddling on?

21 April 2020 3:30 pm

We appear to have seven Australian governments that are paralysed, unable to decide whether they are really “flattening the curve”,…

The last post for Kokoda?

21 April 2020 1:31 pm

Whoever thought Anzac Day would be defeated by a bat-soup virus from a wet-food market in China or that the…

Miserable ghost Malcolm Turnbull’s ill-timed bigger picture

21 April 2020 11:00 am

Australia is well ahead of most of the West in suppressing coronavirus. Out of a population of 25 million Australia…

Chernobyl and the Chinese flu: spot the difference

21 April 2020 5:00 am

There’s a scene in the HBO mini-series, Chernobyl that bears an uncanny similarity to the current communist cover-up involving COVID-19.…

The lexicon of lockdown: a guide to the new corona-speak

20 April 2020 6:35 pm

The coronavirus epidemic has completely changed the world, including the way we speak. Words that only yesterday meant one thing…

What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain and Tony Abbott have in common?

20 April 2020 4:07 pm

What do George Pell, Lindy Chamberlain, Tony Abbott and the Australian media have in common? They are all strong-minded and…

The crazy Kiwi corona book ban

20 April 2020 1:44 pm

New Zealand’s Ardern government has outdone even the world’s most authoritarian regimes, banning the sale of fiction. Emails have issued…

Has the Chief Medical Officer replaced the parliament of Danandrewstan?

20 April 2020 11:30 am

The Andrews’ Labor government’s draconian response to the coronavirus pandemic has given all Victorians a taste of what it is…

Malcolm Turnbull and the media fraudsters

20 April 2020 5:00 am

Face it: the identifiable, small, smug cluster of the Australian media elite does not care it’s out of tune with…

Liberty is too important for bureaucratic bungling

19 April 2020 7:30 pm

Over the course of just a few days we have had all sorts of conflicting messages concerning the plan to…

The corona clampdown: are we just being silly over sniffles?

19 April 2020 5:19 pm

There has been a lot of confusion around COVID-19 statistics and what they means. The fundamental problem is that there…

Alexander Downer and Russiagate: a bigger picture?

18 April 2020 11:30 am

Well, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — this time in different words: Alexander Downer, the Fredo…

The ABC has vanished up its own…

17 April 2020 3:54 pm

No! No! No! Not now. Things are bad enough already. It’s too early to start drinking. But no. The dumbed-down,…

Tackling coronavirus risks head on is the only way forward for business 

17 April 2020 1:36 pm

Our major football codes are the canaries in the coal mine for hundreds of industries desperate to restart as soon…

Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull?

17 April 2020 11:01 am

Why do we have to put up with Malcolm Turnbull? Contemporaries have had to suffer throughout their lives the intermittent…

Who are the real corona racists?

17 April 2020 5:00 am

The threat of coronavirus has Australian officials inventing new and contradictory authoritarian laws daily — and they’re backed by the…

What’s going to happen to Generation Lockdown?

16 April 2020 7:15 pm

Imagine for a moment that you are a parent and someone knocks on your front door with a proposition. The…

There’s a ghost in my house

16 April 2020 7:09 pm

There’s a ghost in my house. Or there’s going to be. A miserable ghost. And you can also have one…

Tracking a pandemic: an unacceptable invasion of privacy

16 April 2020 3:30 pm

The federal government’s plan to use a voluntary tracking app to monitor our movements – in an attempt to stem…

Who owns WHO?

16 April 2020 2:06 pm

Australia is a nation of 9.2 million households — a nation that has been duped by a deceptive World Health…