Are we saving lives or destroying them?
The great Albert Einstein said: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it”. Our…
Grating Greta jumps the shark
She’s back – but not for very long, if this is what she’s been reduced to. Remember back to those…
The hotel quarantine disaster WorkSafe action latest: the rule of law in Victoria is on public trial
There has been a concerning development with the process to prosecute the Victorian Government over the 2020 Hotel Quarantine breaches that…
Awarding Olympic medals must end – it reinforces a binary and elitist worldview
One of the nation’s peak sporting bodies, the Australian Centre for Equity and Excellence in Sport, has issued a warning…
Can Australia escape its Covid lockdown cycle?
In the early days of the pandemic, Australia was the envy of the world. The country was lauded as a…
Revealed: the BBC guide for covering climate change
Climate change is once again dominating the news agenda. A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that even if…
Scoop: young libertarians are still really cringe!
Kissimmee, Florida On Thursday morning as I boarded my plane at Reagan National Airport to fly to Orlando, I managed…
Has David Cameron any shame?
$10million, or £7million. That’s what David Cameron is now reported to have made from Greensill Capital, the company he helped…
Tough love: how lockdown’s got us painting rocks and why that’s not all bad
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO…
Sinn Fein’s troubling veneration of terrorists
Sinn Fein is not a normal party. It sometimes feels impolite to point it out in the era of the…
What will the next reshuffle look like?
Following reports over the weekend that Boris Johnson has threatened to demote Rishi Sunak to health secretary, Downing Street has today…
Why women are at risk from the campaign to abolish sex
The latest human rights push is the inalienable right to keep your birth sex private. We all have to pretend that we…
Why Russia’s Olympic punishment backfired
The Tokyo Olympics are over and fifth place in the medals table went to the ‘ROC’, the Russian Olympic Committee.…
The zero risk approach is driving us up the wall
Road deaths are far too high and need to be reduced at all costs. Despite police action, people still speed…
A public holiday for a cancelled event? You can’t get much more corona-crazy
Those south of the Queensland border may have heard of the Brisbane Exhibition — or the Ekka as it colloquially…
Should California Republicans unite behind Larry Elder in the recall election?
California Republicans are not falling in line behind a single candidate in the recall against Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The…
The Drum sounds the ABC’s death knell
Propriety, and the laws of defamation, prevent me from writing about ABC TV’s The Drum that which so richly deserves…
Newspoll: Governments usually win one election more than they deserve. Was 2019 one of them?
Today’s Newspoll is dire for the Prime Minister. The two-party preferred split of 53:47 is bad enough but can be…
Was the Tokyo Olympics a success?
Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s Prime Minister, is a hard man to read. He has a sum total of one facial expression…
Will Covid turn into the common cold?
Many experts and modellers thought that the 19 July reopening would be a disaster. So far, that has not been…
Why conservatives should support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
At the 1897 Adelaide Federation Convention, Alfred Deakin implored delegates to see themselves as ‘trustees for posterity, for the unborn…
Their ABC and ‘allegations’, rather than ‘facts’
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it…
Belarusians in exile aren’t safe from the iron grip of Lukashenko
This week has laid bare the terrifying situation faced by Belarusians in their home country and abroad. From Tokyo’s Olympic…
Cult of Mao: Will the Olympics punish China?
As one of the embassy drivers I met in Beijing saw it, ferrying diplomats to meetings was secondary to his responsibility…
We are stamping on our children’s future with our attempts to stamp out Covid
It used to be an intergenerational compact, an unwritten commandment, that we will give to our children better than we…
