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

Digital trust on trial

25 October 2023 4:00 am

Banking on your biometrics. The controversy surrounding corporate-dictated digital identification

Fight them on the speeches! Why the FSU is needed in Australia

25 October 2023 1:52 am

There is a view that is common amongst the sceptics of cancel culture, that it is merely a battle between elites and…

It is still called genocide

24 October 2023 2:57 pm

Trick question 1: What is the main difference between the Nazis and Hamas terrorists? Answer: Gas chambers. Trick question 2: What is…

Is multiculturalism failing?

24 October 2023 1:41 pm

In March 2022, Declan Cutler, a working-class 16-year-old, died after being stabbed over 50 times by a ‘gang of teenagers’ in…

Chasing idiocy: how subsidies power our energy price hikes

24 October 2023 4:30 am

If we looked at the picture for Australia in the mid-90s, the electricity industry was massively overstaffed and the gas…

Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia

24 October 2023 4:00 am

With the Voice Referendum ‘done’, it’s now both possible and necessary to recognise and understand the broader ‘revolutionary’ agenda that…

A tinderbox of incompetence

24 October 2023 3:00 am

For a decade, the Victorian government-owned forestry controller VicForests has been a tinderbox of incompetence looking for a match. Gifted…

Nasty weather: renewable energy poses a national security threat

24 October 2023 1:09 am

The least efficient way to handle energy is to store it. Imagine a bucket with a mosquito net for a…

We have a big problem

23 October 2023 4:00 am

The tantrum of the ‘Yes’ campaign and its supporters following their referendum loss is symptomatic of a class of people…

Crisis of soul: moral relativism and the modern university

23 October 2023 3:30 am

Alan Bloom, perhaps modern education’s greatest post-war critic, wrote presciently on Western elites’ decaying moral and intellectual fibre. Bloom’s 1987…

The madness of Net Zero

23 October 2023 3:00 am

How crazy has the world become? What we are watching is the most insane delusion faced by humankind. To believe…

The Age of Audits

23 October 2023 12:23 am

Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…

Time to punish the Big End of town?

22 October 2023 5:51 pm

Australia’s Big End of Town gambled heavily in the Voice Cup. They lost. Only the Nanny ‘State’ (Canberra) voted ‘Yes’,…

Our enemy, the government

22 October 2023 12:06 pm

The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny…

Education vs Wisdom: referendum voting patterns come under fire

22 October 2023 1:38 am

Waleed Aly was technically correct, but perhaps discourteous, in the way he expressed the socio-economic difference seen within voting patterns…

False rape allegations aren’t so rare

21 October 2023 9:25 am

Remember how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing…

Letter to the editor

21 October 2023 8:49 am

Over the last two weeks, I am shocked and disappointed to see the level of support given to pro-Palestinian demonstrations…

Can my God go to court too?

20 October 2023 12:05 am

Australia’s Voice Referendum resulted in the beautiful affirmation that our nation does not see colour or heritage among its peoples.…

A true cultural turning point

19 October 2023 11:49 pm

In the week before the Voice referendum, the esteemed commentator for the Australian newspaper Paul Kelly argued if the ‘No’…

The rot of bureaucracy: it’s time to ‘go local’ on education

19 October 2023 11:15 pm

‘It takes a department to raise a child…’ Who has ever said that? Hopefully nobody, but it’s clear that this…

Why I love The Exorcist

19 October 2023 10:09 pm

Thousands of people queued up outside the theatre to witness something unique. As the line stretched around corners, the chilly…

Now the recriminations begin

19 October 2023 8:53 pm

Despite the promised week of silent mourning for the defeat of the Voice to Parliament, the recriminations and blame-to-be-laid are…

A bomb wrapped as a gift: no thanks

19 October 2023 2:24 pm

It would have detonated multiple times over a few years, as the Voice package, if accepted by Australians, shed its…

Yet another well-intentioned green folly

19 October 2023 4:30 am

In the small town of Kalkar in Northern Germany, there is an amusement park with an unusual ‘Alpine Experience’ climbing…

Ten reasons to rejoice at the Voice referendum result

19 October 2023 1:50 am

The result of the weekend’s referendum was known within an hour or so of polls closing. Australians emphatically voted against…