Limiting access for the unvaxed to public places will likely breach the Disability Discrimination Act
Your correspondent is a retired lawyer who these days prefers gardening to litigating. Spring in the Victorian High Country is…
No, Biden didn’t just snub Brexit Britain
For European Union enthusiasts, the ‘trade deal with America’ has joined ‘£350 million pledge on a bus’ as one of…
Joe Biden is everything Trump wanted to be
Do you remember the president who gave Vladimir Putin everything he wanted in Europe? The president who consistently ignored the…
Unis still stinging students while claiming Covid-poverty
In the era of Covid-19, change is everywhere. I have spent the past 18 months adapting to the Covid-19 university experience.…
AUKUS, Afghanistan and the foreign policy amateur
Since Joe Biden was elected in part as a salve for Donald Trump’s perceived foreign policy blunders, it seems reasonable…
The US will help mend fences with France – but climate may be the price
Around the time of the April 2016 submarine announcement – a contest between Germany, Japan and France – there was…
Biden’s big UN whopper
President Joe Biden walked into the grand UN General Assembly chamber this morning with a list of asks, an appeal…
We salute The Age
You read that right. We salute The Age. Bravo! Three cheers for The Age! We could not have bettered their…
What to do when you live under a despotic government?
Our Morning Double Shot editor takes a different view than I on the relationship between law and morality when it…
Boris pressgangs Biden at White House love-in
You can take the boy out of journalism but you can’t the journalism out of the boy. That’s the rule…
Another stupid, redundant, dismal Canadian election
Canada has just surpassed even its own previous records for absurd and boring elections yielding predictable and dreary results. Almost…
The EU should keep out of France’s spat with Australia
Ursula von der Leyen has demanded a full investigation. EU officials are considering pulling out of technology talks with the…
Boris is a mini-Biden
It’s been said far too many times that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Trump himself…
The rule of law is cracking in Victoria – and so is the Labor establishment
Victoria, but perhaps more specifically Melbourne, is in serious trouble. Law and order is not just breaking down, it’s already cracked. When a supporter of…
Passport to hell
Let’s be frank. If a vaccine does not prevent infection or transmission, there is no scientific basis for a vaccine…
The Biden border crisis isn’t going away
The record influx of illegal immigrants on the southern border — and the White House’s refusal to refer to it…
Starmer’s shameful silence on the Rosie Duffield trans row
One of the most shocking images from the Corbyn years of the Labour party was Luciana Berger flanked by police…
The deplorables down under
There’s a whiff of les gllets jaunes in the Melbourne air today. That and the smell of flares. For more…
We’ll all pay the price for reckless energy firms’ gambling
You know that mate of yours who is always boasting they pay way less for energy than you because they’re…
Rejecting the media elite echo chamber
If the mainstream media were hoping to learn from the mistakes of 2016, there were plenty of lessons for them…
If we’re all such good friends and allies, there’ll be no carbon tariffs? Right?
Almost daily, supposedly pro-business outlets publish material calling for net zero emissions, carbon taxes and the abandonment of coal in…
Don’t pity those cheese-eating surrender monkeys, the French
Witnessing the melodramatic outpouring of Gallic histrionics at Australia’s surprise but masterstroke decision to ditch the overblown, over-budget and already…
Is China’s debt-fuelled economy doomed?
For years it seemed as though China’s massively inflated property bubble would just keep on expanding, seemingly defying the laws of economics, as…
Trudeau in blackface row (again)
Justin Trudeau’s snap election has just gone from bad to worse. The incumbent Canadian prime minister decided last month to…
Punch-up at the palace: why the Taliban is tearing itself apart
The office of the Afghan president, the Arg, sits in more than 80 acres of parkland, quadruple the size of…
