In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
World Bank woes
The World Bank has a great cosmopolitan air to its name – not like one of those parochial institutions like…
Children behaving badly
Something is going seriously wrong with our children. Standards are declining in education; manners and respect are forgotten; ignorance, expectation,…
Are health regulators turning a blind eye to puberty blockers?
With a never-ending increase in red tape across the healthcare industry, you might be surprised to learn that ‘gender-affirming care’…
Time and tithe: the Climate Cult’s expensive virtue
Virtue has always been for sale. The oldest fragments of human civilisation contain tributes left for the gods in a…
The Bowen Basin coal pioneers – Collinsville, Thiess, and Utah
When they erect a huge monument to the coal pioneers of the Bowen Basin, three groups must be prominent: The…
New Zealand: are bilingual road signs safe?
At a time when the dilapidated state of New Zealand’s roads are a major public concern and the government has…
Grifting on the Royal brand…?
‘The F***ing Grifters… That’s the podcast we should have launched with them.’ These were the frustrated words of Bill Simmons,…
More than PR clichés
After an individual at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia allegedly breached confidentiality agreements and disclosed upcoming government tax policy to colleagues and…
Female trauma and political capital
The case of Brittany Higgins has brought me into a number of conversations about the way the criminal justice system…
Alan Jones: Albanese in a mess
There is no doubt that in politics, worldwide, the Left are in the ascendant; but they enjoy undeserving support from…
Misinformation, disinformation, and cloudy thinking
I have a friend, well educated and aware of current affairs, but I always seem to have some sort of…
Always Sunny: going where others wouldn’t dare
Few would believe me If I said that a show about a group of politically incorrect, sociopathic, and narcissistic alcoholics…
Amazon shuts down smart home after hate speech allegation
News of Amazon allegedly locking out a smart home user over hate speech allegations is raising questions about technocratic overreach.…
Education, education, education
It is indubitable that a good education leads to a better life for those who are fortunate enough to receive…
In need of a tree?
As traumatic accounts of families struggling to pay their mortgages or rent fill our newspapers and TV screens, spare a…
Save the planet … sacrifice a child?!
In my previous article, I expressed the view that modern environmentalism resembles a pantheistic religion in that it contains a…
21st century snake oil
Big Pharma may appear to be the zenith of craven greed and duplicity with their billions made off vaccines they…
mRNA vaccines fast-tracked for Australian agriculture
After the spectacular failure of mRNA vaccines in human trials, the agricultural industry is pushing ahead with mRNA vaccines for…
The un-United Nations
The role of the United Nations in the modern world has fallen into disrepute; the recent elevation of Russia as…
Labor’s Voice for bureaucrats
If the Voice to Parliament is the wondrous advance that the crazy-eyed morality police want us to believe, then why…
To gig or not to gig. Is that the question?
If you’ve ever been to a pub gig, you’ll have taken part in what the Albanese government wants to (effectively)…
It’s amazing how tolerant home borrowers have become
It seems like the Aston by-election was not just a disaster for the Liberal Party, losing a once-safe seat from…
Silvio Berlusconi: the man who wanted to make Italy great again
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has died, aged 86, from complications arising from leukaemia. With him passes also a…
Playing politics with the Governor
This piece is authored by a guest writer. The beauty of Australia’s Constitutional Monarchy is the absence of politics from…
God did not give us the Church to push political opinion
I wish I didn’t have to write articles about the Catholic Church. Genuinely, I wish the Catholic Church would act…