In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
The fact-checker industrial complex
I tuned in the other day to an excellent webinar titled Prayer and Pushback organised by the redoubtable Pat Mesiti. It was a…
Australia’s social credit score Olympics
‘Made in China’ … three words that most people on the planet will recognise. For more than half a century,…
Labor uses every trick to dodge interest rate rise blame
Due in March this year is the report of the Review into the mandate and operational arrangements for the Reserve…
The ‘anti-discrimination’ bandwagon – coming to a school near you
You have to hand it to the ‘anti-discrimination’ warriors – they are effective. Watch them go from city to city…
Big Tech showdown: DeSantis floats Digital Bill of Rights
Ron DeSantis has tabled a citizen vs. Silicon Valley, Digital Bill of Rights, designed to hand Floridians protections against Big Tech overreach.…
Productivity is never an accident
As our inexperienced (but trying hard) Prime Minister and his vainglorious Treasurer attempt to right the budget ship and stop…
Printing money: inflation comes for the West
Groceries aren’t rising in price and giant supermarket chains aren’t making record profits. The value of money is collapsing. That’s…
Finally, we can talk about the Wuhan Lab
In early 2020, a New York Times headline scoffed, Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins. This week, the newspaper of…
The Australian education system is woefully outdated
The aim of the Australian education system is to provide ‘a system that supports participation and helps all Australians reach…
Super self-own
The libertarians are having an ‘I told you so’ moment. A friend of mine who has long championed not putting…
Bipartisanship: a wolf in sheep’s clothing
During a parliamentary year, many bills are made into law which have bipartisan support. The danger is to fall into…
Boundless plains to share?
One of the more dominant themes intertwined in the great story of Australia is that of the bush. Embedded into…
How green was my valley? The changing face of the Green movement
How Green was my Valley? The 1939 novel and film of the same name, by Richard Llewellyn, was based in…
The RBA (reckless bank of Australia) needs a radical, not reserved, review
In a YouTube clip from the BBC show Blackadder II entitled The Idiots Guide to Alchemy, an exchange between Lord Blackadder (LB)…
We got Bernie, now let’s get Moira
What do you get if you combine Attila the Hun, Jack the Ripper, and Genghis Khan? Why, a conservative Christian…
Breaking the silence: a ‘how to’ guide
So far, we’ve looked at the case for the suspension of Covid injections and how vested interests contributed to the silence of Australia’s…
Ban these books!
The curious and eager nature of some to desperately find something to be upset about, like an overexcited bloodhound, is…
Family Law Reform fiasco – riches for lawyers and poverty for children
The proposed Family Law Amendment legislation by the Labor government will be another case of rearranging the deck chairs on the…
Alan Jones: Albo’s victory is stained with dishonesty over super
I have said for some time that politics is not about personality, but about policy. You hear people say, I…
No me digas! Spain is leading Europe’s feminine swing to the right
After almost three winters of discontent, Europe is swinging to the right and – reminiscent of the UK’s response to…
Plibersek, stop handing public money to billionaires
Mining giant and Fortescue Metal executive chairman Andrew Forrest said at a Sydney conference this week: ‘We are fat and…
Play hardball and stop the carnage
The Western alliance against the Russian Federation’s Ukraine invasion is characterised by soft leather shoes, white shirts, diplomatic suits, and…
Nuclear power: crossing the ideological divide
Europe is in the midst of an energy crisis. The abject failure of renewables to meet basic power requirements combined…
The vilification of Moira Deeming
Free speech and debate are important cornerstones of democracy. History demonstrates that they are the first to go when bad,…
Divide et impera: the end of pluralism
Pluralism – or the ‘doctrine of multiplicity’ – tends to go hand-in-hand with liberal democracy. Based on the concept of…
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