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

A chilling move toward government overreach

19 September 2024 10:12 am

In 2024, the Liberal Party, under the leadership of Scott Morrison, proposed the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation)…

The final nail in the Liberal broad church?

18 September 2024 7:50 pm

Weakness on the misinformation and disinformation bill could prove fatal

Extinction lecture event

18 September 2024 2:00 am

Adelaide University, one of the elite Group of Eight universities in Australia (and my alma mater in the 1970s pre-Woke…

100 dignitaries sign open letter condemning Brazil

17 September 2024 8:36 pm

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADL) have launched an open letter, condemning Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ attacks on X. More…

Rainbow Toolkit activism, let children be children

17 September 2024 7:43 pm

Most parents today send their children off to kindergarten and school with the expectation that as they progress from infancy…

Government spending needs reform before taxes

17 September 2024 5:19 pm

I would like a dollar for every time I’ve read how much the Australian economy needs tax reform. Sure, it…

A wider malaise in the culture of Defence

17 September 2024 12:57 pm

The news that campaign and gallantry medals will be stripped from a bevy of middle-ranking officers over allegations of war…

The Greens’ housing delusion

17 September 2024 2:00 am

There is nothing better than living in your own home. Even with a mortgage, being able to be the king…

Is Thierry Breton’s resignation a win for Elon Musk?

16 September 2024 11:25 pm

Described as ‘France’s powerful European Commissioner’, the EU bureaucrat who lectured Elon Musk about online censorship has resigned suddenly. Thierry…

Bureaucratic hypocrisy on the International Day of Democracy

16 September 2024 9:13 pm

Yesterday was the International Day of Democracy. Perhaps conscious of democracy’s decline under their watch, all the usual suspects have…

Memo to Putin: you are the criminal, stop lecturing Nato

16 September 2024 3:23 pm

It’s crazy strange to see violent criminals getting upset with defenders and the police, wanting to direct their actions. Don’t…

Restoring the presumption of innocence

16 September 2024 1:08 pm

Hosted by Australians for Science and Freedom and sponsored by Mothers of Sons, the recent conference on Restoring the Presumption…

Leaders cannot legislate away social media anxiety

16 September 2024 7:00 am

Concern about social media-based anxiety is popping up everywhere. Leaders of many kinds are talking about it, decrying it, and…

Pope Francis and the ‘lesser evil’: abortion over borders?

15 September 2024 10:25 pm

At least the cat-eating memes made sense. Over the weekend, American politics has taken a bizarre turn with Pope Francis…

The field of Mars

15 September 2024 8:28 pm

In this city of Lviv, ancient churches with crumbling walled ramparts sit beside trendy bars with beautiful hipsters in carefully…

The extinction of free speech and religious freedom

15 September 2024 8:18 pm

On September 10 at 9 pm, the Queensland Parliament, where the Steven Miles Labor government has a majority, adopted the…

The great green wall

15 September 2024 4:00 pm

Is China’s offer of assistance regarding the ‘Great Green Wall’ in Africa a genuine attempt to save the world from…

Gone to the dogs (and cats)

14 September 2024 11:11 pm

Months from now, the only trace of the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will be the lingering bad…

New censorship and surveillance beast is tabled in Parliament

14 September 2024 1:38 pm

The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024, which was tabled on September 12, makes it a civil…

What can the NSW Liberals learn from Lone Pine?

14 September 2024 11:59 am

On August 6, the Gallipoli Memorial Club hosted a memorial of the Battle of Lone Pine fought on the Gallipoli…

Trump: rejection of religion is the reason for social decay

13 September 2024 9:15 pm

Donald Trump’s theological acumen goes about as far as an M1A1 tank being driven into deep water. No one can…

Christmas in … August?

13 September 2024 7:37 pm

Exploitative commercialism at its finest

Ideology in council

13 September 2024 3:54 am

I’m running for Mayor in the City of Sydney council elections because it’s quite clear we are living through a…

They are not ‘peace’ activists

13 September 2024 2:00 am

Only the naïve, which seems to include a number of respected commentators, regard the mobs that gather to ‘protest’ against…

Violent peaceful protesters, and other hypocrisies

12 September 2024 9:13 pm

Australians have long watched overseas riots on the telly. ‘Those crazy foreigners, lucky it doesn’t happen here,’ we’d say. Well,…