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

Bodies with vaginas? Women want their sex back

4 October 2021 6:03 pm

The phrase “adding insult to injury” has never been so appropriate as in the treatment of women by the progressive…

The Catholic Church’s Plenary Council: another case of ‘reform, reform’ – aren’t things bad enough already? 

4 October 2021 4:30 pm

This week, 280 bishops, clergy and laypeople will convene in a Plenary Council to consider issues that will have a…

Ten questions for the incoming NSW premier

4 October 2021 2:44 pm

This article was to be titled “Ten Questions for Gladys Berejiklian”, but … well, there you go.  Much ink will inevitably be…

Victoria, the Venezuela of the South

4 October 2021 1:00 pm

Such was the ineptitude and mismanagement when Joan Kirner was Victoria’s Premier the state become known as the Albania of the south…

Here comes Perrottet, here comes the sectarian bigotry

4 October 2021 11:17 am

Forty days and 40 nights? Alas, it appears that the downpour of sectarian bigotry that’s begun as it become clearer…

Our political ecosystem is full of collaborationist whores

4 October 2021 4:00 am

The Great Covid Oppression has made it very clear that the political ecosystem is populated by people who talk about…

Matt Kean: not as bad as Labor?

3 October 2021 4:45 pm

Attempting to pick the next premier of New South Wales is a bit like working through a packet of jellybeans.…

Norm Macdonald – exceptionally normal

3 October 2021 4:03 pm

Norm Macdonald, that plain-speaking Canadian comic who died this month, aged 61, showed us how to respond with humour and…

I don’t like Pauline Hanson – but don’t like her being censored

3 October 2021 12:34 pm

I hold no brief for P Hanson who is a vacuous, shallow opportunist. Neither do I know Jessica Rowe who,…

Send the Glasgow climate and canapés conference to Iceland

3 October 2021 10:16 am

November’s COP 26 meeting should be shifted from Glasgow in Scotland to Reykjavík in Iceland. Twenty-five previous meetings of this…

The Peoples Republic of Westralia ♥️ the Peoples Republic of China

2 October 2021 2:29 pm

Western Australia is increasingly a country of its own under Mark McGowan, so we shouldn’t be surprised that it’s pursuing…

Gladys goes. Will the NSW government?

1 October 2021 1:50 pm

How Gladys Berejiklian has fallen. It’s been just five months from her The woman who saved Australia front page of the…

Liberty demands the state respect religion

1 October 2021 12:18 pm

While the commonwealth government is yet to table the revised version of its Freedom of Religion Bill there’s no doubt…

Mandatory vaccination is a human rights violation. A gross violation

1 October 2021 4:00 am

Mandating or coercing COVID vaccination is one of the most important civil liberties issues of my lifetime. It’s a fundamental…

Beware a blind charge to net-zero emissions

30 September 2021 6:35 pm

In the prologue to the UN Glasgow meeting on climate change, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been preparing the ground for…

Freedom of choice has been cancelled and will cost lives from tomorrow

30 September 2021 4:06 pm

Policymakers have impinged on the freedoms of the most disadvantaged members of society – smokers. From 1 October 2021, it…

Snapshot Victoria: the State of Chaos

30 September 2021 2:02 pm

Victoria today:  242 days in lockdown; 11,018 active Covid cases; 1,438 new infections, 856 deaths Under 50% of the population…

Why the Jess Rowe Big Talk Show Podcast is too small to include Pauline Hanson

30 September 2021 12:00 pm

The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show Podcast is BIG but not big enough to include alternate views, apparently. Journalism is…

A royal commission into coronavirus? Be careful what you wish for

30 September 2021 4:00 am

Some former politicians and commentators are suggesting there be an ‘independent’ review in the form of a royal commission to…

Big Tech has placed its bet – on the Genghis Khan of our time

29 September 2021 6:49 pm

The nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen’s greatest fear when thinking about the future has come true. He said “What I’m…

Daniel Andrews gets the wooden spoon

29 September 2021 4:50 pm

It’s been a big week for Daniel Andrews. He has revealed that his “roadmap” out of lockdown is as reliable…

Charges laid over hotel quarantine: a win for transparency, a win for the SpecOz

29 September 2021 3:26 pm

Victoria’s workplace safety authority has charged the state health department with 58 breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act…

Want to save the planet? Go nuclear

29 September 2021 12:17 pm

Amidst general gloom and doom, there’s been a small ray of light, showing that sometimes scare campaigns and endless demonisation…

China’s sandcastles in the sea

29 September 2021 4:00 am

Afghanistan sits in the middle of everyone’s infrastructure projects like a pigeon shitting on a chessboard. The world has two options: it…

Can a minor consent to losing their sexuality?

28 September 2021 6:37 pm

The court of review in Britian last week set aside the 2020 Bell Vs Tavistock Divisional Court decision that persons…