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

Here’s a news year resolution for the ABC and the leftie media: reject all violence

17 December 2019 5:00 am

Who decided some violence was more equal than others?   The streets of London have erupted as violent socialist protestors clash…

So, how did I do?

16 December 2019 9:09 pm

Few tasks are more daunting than writing an election forecast which won’t appear in print until after the result; so…

‘Feeling like we are doing something’

16 December 2019 7:40 pm

Overlooked in all the bushfire brouhaha of last week was a telling exchange between a Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon (the…

Some feminists want to kill men, Pauline Hanson wants to honour them

16 December 2019 4:32 pm

“You deserve to be honoured”. These are the words of Senator Pauline Hanson to Australian men in an important speech…

Jezza or Greta: can you spot the difference?

16 December 2019 2:36 pm

Here’s Greta Thunberg telling porkies about not being able to get a seat on a train: And here’s Jeremy Corbyn…

Brexit’s done, now for our Clexit

16 December 2019 11:03 am

Thanks to Boris Johnson, Brexit will now occur. And thanks to Donald Trump, the United States will exit the destructive…

We don’t trust government? Good!

16 December 2019 5:00 am

The latest Australian Election Survey has found trust in government is at an all-time low, and our pollies and pundits…

Let’s hear it for the nation state

15 December 2019 4:00 pm

Congratulations to Boris Johnson. They’ve been comparing him to Churchill, and while it might be a little hyperbolic, this is…

Left-leaning leaders doom their parties

15 December 2019 12:00 pm

The evidence is in.  Jeremy Corbyn has done as Malcolm Turnbull almost did and Bill Shorten definitely did and Anthony Albanese is now doing:…

A Christmas comedy special: the dunderhead democracy deniers

15 December 2019 5:00 am

It’s panto season in London and the greatest show in town is undoubtedly the British general election result and the…

Boris Johnson’s dis-United Kingdom

14 December 2019 10:30 am

With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results,…

‘Progressive’ education policy: a cure worse than the disease

13 December 2019 3:07 pm

Despite the now indisputable evidence that Australia’s education system has been led down a deleterious path, the proposed cure might…

What’s woke this week?

13 December 2019 5:00 am

Recent news suggests that science is fast overtaking the arts at the vanguard of wokeness. The erstwhile boffins of physics…

Who needs oil if surfers can summon shamanistic energy?

12 December 2019 5:03 pm

If environmentalism is the new pagan religion then protests are its ritualistic ceremonies. This was the theory I was hoping…

The only unprecedented thing about these fires is the hyperbole

12 December 2019 1:00 pm

Growing up in what was then the peri-urban fringe of Greater Sydney near the boundary of the Ku-ring-gai National Park,…

Only big government can save us from Roquefort cheese: the 2019 Nanny Award winners unveiled

12 December 2019 11:00 am

The Centre for Independent Studies’ highly uncoveted Nanny Awards (The Nannies) go to the year’s most absurd, ridiculous, and bizarre…

Socialism might seem sexy, but beware Bernie or a Corbyn catastrophe

12 December 2019 5:00 am

Wherever you look, socialism is sexy again. Today, in Britain, Jeremy Corbyn is seeking election as prime minister on a…

Cheaper power coming? Blink and you’ll miss it if our Paris goals remain

11 December 2019 5:48 pm

There is a panoply of agencies regulating energy at the Commonwealth level and not all of these seem to be…

A pox on anti-vaxxers after Samoa’s sorrow

11 December 2019 2:00 pm

The death of more than 60 Samoans from their country’s latest measles outbreak shows what can happen when anti-vaxxers triumph. …

ScoMo, spite, screeching and virtue signalling smoke signals

11 December 2019 11:00 am

There is one thing fouler than the air quality in Sydney right now — the abuse being hurled at our…

Doctor knows best? Here’s a tale of climate activism and censorship

11 December 2019 5:00 am

Introduction When it comes to climate change, do you think that medical journals publish all the science that’s fit to…

Domestic violence is too serious an issue to be used by bigots bashing Christianity

10 December 2019 5:30 pm

In an article in The Conversation yesterday, Vicki Lowik (a PhD candidate at Central Queensland University) and Annabel Taylor (an associate…

Malcolm Turnbull: The Ghost Who Talks

10 December 2019 1:01 pm

I believe in ghosts.    Most Sri Lankan-born men, women or children generally believe in the misty world of ghosts, spirits…

Why you’re probably paying more than 50 per cent of your income in tax

10 December 2019 5:00 am

The government may not know how to build a working national broadband network, but they do know how to covertly…

Gender-neutral toilets don’t help our kids, but threaten them

9 December 2019 7:16 pm

Here is a truth you can bank on: the sexual revolutionaries never eat nor sleep, but are ever on the…