In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Pauline Hanson proves we have a two-tier senate
How convenient that Pauline Hanson is suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black…
The trans myth
On November 18, MP Di Farmer proudly posted on Facebook that she had been part of a protest outside Parliament…
Protecting victims of explicit AI content online
This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’. The Bill is…
The story of a nation in flames
The wildfires in northern and northwestern Iran have become headline news around the world. All eyes are fixed on the…
Barnaby Joyce quits Nationals to sit on crossbench
New England is at the heart of Australia. The Canberra bubble may not like it, but Canberra is merely a…
The burqa, dress codes and democracy
The public bushfire over the banning or not of the burqa continues to burn. Sadly, much of the language used…
Parliament cancels A Super Progressive Movie trailer: ‘It might offend someone’
Last night in Canberra, I attended One Nation’s launch of the trailer for A Super Progressive Movie – the feature-length…
Ukraine-Russia 28 point peace plan – is this the end of the war? | Pete Shmigel S3 Ep 13
The world waits to see if the Trump-led 28 point peace plan offers Russia enough to stop its advance into…
A party that thinks Vaucluse is Australia
The Liberal Party has discovered a new theory of renewal: if the roof caves in on Wednesday, replace the beams…
Liberal Party is dead, and moderates just delivered its eulogy
Yesterday I was toying with Nietzsche’s idea that God is dead, and we have killed him, but in a Menzian…
G20 leaders ‘defy Trump’ gloating that net zero will cost trillions
There is something remarkably juvenile about prime ministers, presidents, and media establishments gloating that the G20 Leaders’ Summit has ‘defied…
International Men’s Day momentum builds
What does the growing support and recognition of International Men’s Day mean? Last week in Adelaide I hosted my third…
Trump keeps talking, Putin keeps shooting
The failure to conclude Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is Donald Trump’s first really big boo-boo. The failure fuse was lit…
Memo to Jess Wilson: I’ve found your shadow Treasurer for you
On Friday, I spent an afternoon at the H R Nicholls Society annual conference, as a guest of the Society.…
Live not by spin
In 1974, after being arrested for the crime of telling the truth, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released his famous essay Live Not…
Vale Allan Moffat, the gentleman racer
I was seven years old when Allan Moffat and Colin Bond crossed the line 1-2 in their Ford XC Falcon…
Javier Milei proves economists wrong with radical free markets | Adam Creighton S3 Ep 12
Argentina is defying the experts by clawing its way out of socialism under the leadership of Libertarian President Javier Milei.…
Nigeria: 303 children and 12 teachers kidnapped
It is now believed 303 children and 12 teachers have been taken hostage by gunmen in Nigeria after a more…
