Xi Jinping and the plight of Chinese nationals in Ukraine
The plight of desperate Chinese nationals in Ukraine has further battered Xi Jinping’s credibility, testing his continued refusal to condemn…
The ABC: where activism beats compassion
As residents of Northern New South Wales, a region known as the Northern Rivers, are still clinging to their rooftops…
War on Wokedom
War. It is a word dreaded by the average person who just wants to live their life in peace. But…
Elegy for Warnie
Shane Warne is gone. An Australian is gone. An Australia is gone. That he was taken far too soon goes…
Are we cheering on Ukraine to destruction?
We’re just ten days into Russia’s assault on Ukraine and the western world has painted itself in Ukraine’s colours. Cities…
Do Russians support Putin’s war?
Everyone is calling the conflict in Ukraine Putin’s war and insisting that it has nothing to do with the Russians…
The myopic focus on racism at the Polish-Ukrainian border
There are already a hell of a lot of foreign correspondents and human-rights workers at the Ukrainian-Polish border – an…
The downfall of Russia’s oligarchs
The normal justification for sanctioning oligarchs is that doing so will cost them money, causing them to put pressure on…
Can Russia ever coexist with the West?
Seeing Vladimir Putin’s bloated face and listening to his increasingly unhinged rhetoric makes it tempting to assume that the current…
Sage admits its models were ‘at variance to reality’. But why?
The Sage committee was set up as a pool of experts on tap to advise government. During the pandemic, it mutated…
Ukraine and the art of viral war
The sky is dull and gray, the sun obscured by clouds. The camera pans down past some desolate Soviet housing…
Let’s not learn the wrong lessons from Ukraine
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has not gone according to plan. A defiant, motivated, and mobilised Ukrainian populace has put up…
The anti-free speech politicians of Australia
Free speech is not just another one of our freedoms, it is the foundation of freedom that all our other…
Castrating Australia
Within this week’s issue we present a number of articles and different points of view surrounding the invasion of Ukraine,…
Tinkling irrevelancies?
So Opera Australia is in quest of a new artistic director to replace Lyndon Terracini. It’s a good moment to…
Aussie Life
I’m thinking about acquiring a drug habit. As a New South Wales Seniors Card carrier I may have left it…
