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

The truth about those still defending Q&A

11 November 2019 5:00 am

I sincerely wish I could say I was surprised by last Monday’s Q&A on our national broadcaster. I was not.…

Socialism: the inconvenient truth

10 November 2019 11:59 am

For as long as socialism has been around, there have been critics of it. And rightly so. As Ronald Reagan…

Socialism: eat the rich, crap on the poor

9 November 2019 3:16 pm

Socialism. Mathematics. Only one is a science. And never the twain shall meet. Thirty years after the fall of the…

Q&A and the inalienable right to be batshit crazy

9 November 2019 12:02 pm

The right to go batshit crazy is one of those inalienable rights. Like the right to bear arms and the…

You’re concerned about my right to know? Look who’s talking

8 November 2019 2:53 pm

Was it really just last month that the mainstream media teamed up to advocate their own freedoms, covering their newspaper…

Monday’s Q&A: simply a sign of the size of our problem

8 November 2019 11:07 am

If ever the Australian public and our politicians needed additional evidence of how biased, vulgar and politically correct woke the…

Techtonics: Labor doesn’t even understand why it loses

8 November 2019 5:00 am

This is the second in a series of articles on shifts in Australian politics and the future of the ALP.…

Sorry Margaret, but you’re a thought criminal

7 November 2019 7:15 pm

According to the Nine Network and its tedious tabloids, Margaret Court is causing headlines again by demanding that she receive…

What’s woke this week?

7 November 2019 4:31 pm

Award-winning transgender athletes have been trending in wokeworld this week. Along with that a sleepy little white town in Britain…

Big Brother is watching… porn?

7 November 2019 2:30 pm

Twenty years ago Australia was labelled as the ‘global village idiot’ by the president of the American Civil Liberties Union…

Not all protestors are created equal

7 November 2019 12:23 pm

Labor leader Anthony Albanese tweeted his support for people’s democratic right to protest earlier this week. This is what it…

Want to see entrenched racism? Don’t look Downunder

7 November 2019 5:00 am

I am often bemused at accusations about Australia having some kind of deep-seated race hate problem. I wonder whether those…

End the man-made drought. Rip up the Murray Darling Basin Plan

6 November 2019 3:12 pm

The failure of the Murray Darling Basin Plan is an example of what happens when decisions are taken out of…

The return of Ross Garnaut and climate nirvana?

6 November 2019 1:01 pm

This week, the Financial Review has featured a return of Ross Garnaut to the climate policy advisory role. Soothingly, he…

Forget racehorses. What about drunk colts and silly fillies?

6 November 2019 10:59 am

Yet again, we’re in the middle of the spring racing carnival. And, like every other year, there is so much…

Stasiland?

6 November 2019 5:00 am

The late British-American historian Robert Conquest is attributed with a truism that only gets truer with the passing of time:…

God and the Rock – and our parliament and liberties

5 November 2019 7:13 pm

If there is one thing that I agree most whole-heartedly with, it is the need to let people speak their…

Q&A hits a new low

5 November 2019 3:36 pm

When I was at university four decades ago, debate raged about the evils of racism, capitalism, colonialism, orientalism and of…

Dan Andrewstan: punch police horses; protest the Cup the next week

5 November 2019 5:00 am

The pugnacious pernicious parade of protestors who packed a few powerful punches on “good old Will the police horse” last…

Kanye West, holy fool

4 November 2019 5:23 pm

Kanye, famous for deifying himself, has found God. For some, Kanye’s konversion is the latest chapter in an eye-rollingly bonkers…

What now for Hong Kong – and our China appeasers?

4 November 2019 1:30 pm

Working at Radio Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution was my first introduction to politics in China. It was a…

Tinker, tailor, Abbott – spy?

4 November 2019 11:00 am

Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: GULAG’s confidence in the public service has been reinforced by…

Why is the ABC justifying violence?

4 November 2019 5:00 am

Tonight our national broadcaster will take a step too far. It will lose all right to pretend that it’s “unbiased”…

The United Nations is a joke with zero credibility on human rights

3 November 2019 11:57 am

Tell us something we don’t know, mate, I can hear you saying right about now. Sure, it’s nothing new, yet no…

Dogma is dominating debate on euthanasia in the West; emotion frustrating facts

1 November 2019 5:16 pm

The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 is currently before the upper house in Western Australia. The bill has been widely…