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

Big Tech only wants to hear one ‘Voice’

23 March 2023 5:00 am

In the push to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia’s Constitution, censorship is the greatest weapon – and…

Slow rolling crisis or banking wildfire?

23 March 2023 4:00 am

The world’s leading funds manager, BlackRock, has argued the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) may start a ‘slow…

Were vaccines a political treatment for public fear?

22 March 2023 4:37 pm

‘All of the public health response [around Covid] appeared to be focused on ‘well’ people, and none of it was…

Labor’s Net Zero dream left in the car park

22 March 2023 7:30 am

Nothing describes Net Zero better than Labor’s campaign ‘e-bus’ sitting dead on arrival in front of reporters after suffering a…

Where is the Royal Commission into Covid?!

22 March 2023 7:00 am

Australians were shocked when the news of the potential enormity of the coronavirus pandemic struck in early 2020. Many were…

Guilt by association

22 March 2023 6:00 am

There are two issues at stake in the transwars that are again finding their way to our shores with ‘Posie…

Alan Jones: Ukraine, China, Russia, and the crisis in Western leadership

22 March 2023 5:00 am

All the talk is about submarines and Aukus, but the very big geopolitical issue is the war in Ukraine. Elements…

Balls: women don’t have them, and neither does Pesutto

22 March 2023 4:00 am

I was so close to writing a good news story about cancel culture. There have been many examples of bravery…

Pesutto has doomed the Victorian Liberal Party

21 March 2023 10:56 am

The Liberal Party is doomed. It doesn’t exist anymore. That’s the only way to understand the decision by John Pesutto,…

What’s left of our cultural inheritance?

21 March 2023 6:00 am

Though it may come as a surprise to a postmodernist, 3,000 years of Western history offers some viable solutions to…

Failure on the horizon

21 March 2023 5:00 am

The consequence of Daniel Andrews’ constitutional ban on gas is about to catch up with Victoria’s energy supply, to the…

Muddle Land: creating an unsolvable mess

21 March 2023 4:00 am

Drawn in Magic Marker and selling over 100 million copies since the 1970s, Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men characters overcome their…

Let Women Speak event hijacked: clowns to the left of Moira, Nazis to the right

20 March 2023 1:15 pm

John Pesutto advised Moira Deeming on Sunday night that her position in the Victorian Parliamentary Party was untenable after she…

Moira Deeming should not be expelled

20 March 2023 12:29 pm

John Pesutto has declared his intention to expel Moira Deeming from her position as a member of the parliamentary Liberal…

Chimeras: the monsters of man

20 March 2023 7:00 am

In 2021, under the cover of Covid, scientists from China, Spain, and America created embryos that shared human and macaque…

The Christian vote is searching for a home

20 March 2023 6:00 am

In this final week of the upcoming NSW State election, there is still much angst amongst Christians on how best…

The Melbourne art scene: diluted mediocrity

20 March 2023 5:00 am

The building is ugly and the inside is confusing. There are people everywhere and you have to look around for…

Australia’s erosion of informed consent and the avoidable death of children

20 March 2023 4:00 am

Deception can be lethal. The last three years of Covid have taught us that. Adding to the pile of disconcerting…

To win, the Liberals must destroy the climate cult

19 March 2023 5:30 pm

Scrolling through Instragram, I came across a likable North Shore member running for the New South Wales state election. He’s…

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price speaks at the Mannkal Foundation’s Emerging Leaders event

19 March 2023 6:00 am

Renowned Indigenous leader, activist, and politician, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, gave the keynote address for the Mannkal Foundation’s Annual Emerging…

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has restored my faith in Hollywood

19 March 2023 5:00 am

A few years ago, if you were to tell me that a sequel story about a retired swashbuckling cartoon cat…

Changing tides: a return to Australia’s shipping industry

19 March 2023 4:00 am

From 1851, paddle steamers could transport up to 2,000 bales of wool along the Murray River, with engines that were…

OnlyFans: the last stop for Western feminism

18 March 2023 11:45 am

Barely a day goes by without tabloid publications spruiking a ‘good news’ story about some poor, oppressed woman or D-grade…

The rise of the Fifth Estate

18 March 2023 7:00 am

In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: ‘In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly.…

Power policy in parallel universes

18 March 2023 5:00 am

This year Daniel Westerman will become a well-known if not much-loved public figure. In his role as the energy czar…