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

A religious freedom commissioner: not just worse than doing nothing, but the wrong thing

19 July 2019 5:00 am

Attorney-General Christian Porter intends to put the proposed religious discrimination bill to Parliament in the near future. Unveiling the government’s…

To save Western Civilisation, turn right

18 July 2019 1:54 pm

C S Lewis once observed that when you are going in the wrong direction, the thing to do is go…

How is it fair that unions pay no income tax?

18 July 2019 5:00 am

The ACTU continually complain that business, including small business, don’t pay their fair share of income tax. The complaints often…

Forget when Belle Gibson will get jail. When will her victims get justice?

17 July 2019 8:29 pm

When the Belle Gibson trial hit the news again recently all I was able to do was ‘watch on’ as…

Have Their ABC declared Bob Brown an unperson for heresy against the great green goddess Gaia?

17 July 2019 5:11 pm

‘Unperson’. You know the word. George Orwell coined it for Nineteen Eighty-Four, as being someone erased from society, the past,…

An end to parliamentary rorts in one easy step

17 July 2019 1:57 pm

This week, Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon passionately defended the $46,000 electoral allowance which he, like other MPs, receives from taxpayers…

How will more pen-pushers help the Great Barrier Reef?

17 July 2019 5:00 am

The idea that the Great Barrier Reef is in need of saving from catastrophe is popular, especially among academics and…

Advice from a happy migrant: love it or leave

16 July 2019 5:15 pm

Donald Trump and his typing fingers are in trouble again (as they are pretty much every day) for telling “the Squad”…

Is Black Widow leading a fightback against wokeness in the arts?

16 July 2019 12:22 pm

Scarlett Johansson is in deep-shit again for raging against identity politics.  In 2018, Johansson abandoned her starring role as a…

Why is NSW fining farmers under laws that no longer exist?

16 July 2019 5:00 am

The New South Wales government must grant an amnesty to all farmers who are being prosecuted under laws which no…

Taxpayers always deserve a break

15 July 2019 5:17 pm

The passing of the government’s major tax package is good news in a number of different ways. Stage 3 of…

About that climate change election…

15 July 2019 1:04 pm

The 2019 federal poll was meant to be the ‘Climate Change Election’ according to Greens leader Richard Di Natale and…

An alphabet for ‘progressives’

15 July 2019 5:00 am

Progressivism has become so pervasive that it’s about time that a children’s book was written for the political left. We’ve…

Transgender: born this way?

14 July 2019 6:10 pm

In April, Tasmania legislated birth certificate reforms, making gender on birth certificates optional, and removes the requirement for transgender people…

Labor’s embarrassing, unwanted party guest, John Setka

14 July 2019 3:25 pm

Some of you may recall the 2019 federal election. You may recall that the Australian Labor Party lost “the unlosable…

Journalism is not a crime – but it’s not above the law, either

12 July 2019 12:38 pm

If any further evidence is required to demonstrate the complete lack of self-reflection and wayward moral compass of the ABC,…

Constitutional recognition? Cathartic for conservatives, a gift for GULAG

12 July 2019 5:00 am

Brother Number One of the Canberra Cadre writes: Why does GULAG need to win elections when SM’s team does all…

Health care ‘apartheid’

11 July 2019 7:29 pm

The proposal to launch Australia’s first Indigenous-only hospital raises a number of questions and is problematic on a number of…

Epstein and Clinton: a tale of two searches

11 July 2019 4:34 pm

I have written about the scumbag Jeffrey Epstein before; in any case, he’s all over the news again so you…

What the world needs now is love, sweet love: ScoMo

11 July 2019 1:23 pm

In a speech to the Hillsong church in Sydney on Wednesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison riffed intriguingly on the power…

Farming, fibs and Four Corners

11 July 2019 5:00 am

From little things, big things grow. And so, for the 60 odd years until the nineteen-nineties, we saw the land…

Their ABC: tax cuts cause crime

10 July 2019 5:56 pm

Over the past few years, it’s been clear that despite all the public noise peace terms of a kind have…

Queensland: trying to ban itself into good health

10 July 2019 12:45 pm

The Queensland government has announced it will ban junk food advertising at government-owned sites such as train stations and bus…

What’s Rugby Australia got to say on the Qur’an?

10 July 2019 5:00 am

When Israel Folau is asked to swear on the Bible before he gives evidence in the High Court, will someone…

A tale of lingerie and liberation

9 July 2019 7:52 pm

A case of persecution, followed by a period of down-and-out, but now with a happy ending: Negzzia, 29, has been…