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Local leftists think Joe Biden’s senility is a scream
Less than 35 years ago the Australian left — and their colleagues around the world — were always warning us…
South Australia’s Covid app: the last straw
Communist China is amassing unrivalled amounts of individual and company data as part of its plans to build a “social…
Make choking women bad again
I am going to comment on a fight I didn’t watch — I’m not sorry, can’t bear to watch. I…
Orthodox Church attacks Gladys and Dan
On a day where one particular faith has been targeted in unprecedented ways, with residents in Melbourne’s “Bagel Belt” taking…
Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers meet Sir John Kerr
An interesting development in American politics emerged yesterday in a book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington…
There’s so much wrong with Anthony Albanese’s ‘Green ANZUS’
Rehearsing what he says is Labor’s long commitment to the American alliance, Anthony Albanese has sought to modernise this, saying, “ On…
Britain rediscovers liberal democracy over vaccine passports – while Australia trashes it
As noted in yesterday’s Morning Double Shot newsletter, in Britain and Australia we have two countries, two contrasting approaches to…
Gladys versus God
Churches cannot — and must not — comply with health orders that require them to exclude unvaccinated people from worship…
REVEALED: How woke bureaucrats used the corona crisis to cancel women
While two-thirds of this country’s population is currently locked up at home and deprived of its fundamental freedoms, unelected bureaucrats…
It’s not only history. The left has captured literature too
Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of…
‘We managed to toilet train cows’
“We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change,” a…
Covid: the New World Order
Something dangerous has happened to Australia. We have allowed the interests of ‘collective health’ to erase individual human rights. It…
Dead reef? What dead reef?
Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…
Jacinda Ardern – an agenda-driven autocrat?
It’s hard to keep up with our adroit Prime Minister who apparently doesn’t like answering questions, such as the one about where does…
Lorraine Finlay, conservative governments and appointments
I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as…
Bravo, Boris: England vetos vaccine passports
“I’ve never liked the idea of saying to people, ‘You must show your papers’ … to do what is just…
Yes, we have an inequality problem – between the public and private sectors
In an interview with the American socialist Jacobin Magazine this month, Greens leader Adam Bandt spoke about a growing inequality crisis. When…
Saving our forests and controlling our climate
I’m all for saving forests. Unlike the climate change enthusiasts, I learnt how to do it by working as a…
Doctor Deathwish comes to Queensland
“Lying always comes before killing”, as Solzhenitsyn observed of the Stalin regime. Under the Labor administration in Queensland, it comes…
Carping Keneally on road to political oblivion
Just months from a possible December federal election, the Labor Party is doing what it does so well – knifing…
Jeff Kennett is right: Daniel Andrews can be defeated
Springtime may be brightening up the lives of Victorians, but the stage light is dimming on Premier Dan Andrews. Something…
Dante Alighieri: a giant of the West and a man for our times
Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet, politician and philosopher. Dante, or as…
Amen to Abbott
The Twitteratti have been in a tizz since Wednesday when a busybody got a shot of Tony Abbott, sans mask,…
Josh Frydenberg defends the indefensible with JobKeeper
How do you defend the indefensible? You give a politician a pen and some newspaper column centimetres. I tend not…
Why has Queensland Labor declared war on Catholic healthcare over euthanasia?
What contempt the Queensland Government must have for Christians that they have chosen the middle of a pandemic to pick…
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