James Packer’s slipped Crown: a victim of sleaze – and snobbery
Melbourne legend tells that days before Crown Casino opened senior police visited the next largest gambling place in town, a…
Net zero jobs by 2050?
Australian farmers will hardly sleep easy with the assurance of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Michele O’Neil that…
Albo almost gets it right while Bowen blows hard
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese has told The Australian: A government I lead will always respect the central importance of successful…
Eddie McGuire: only a fool feeds the woke beast and thinks it will not devour him
Collingwood Football Club President Eddie McGuire played the woke game for years but he could not outrun it. Yesterday he…
Putting the Voice in the Constitution: a dangerous move
Recently, The Australian has run a series of articles, six at least, pushing the idea of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. …
Why are trans activists and a Melbourne bookstore trying to cancel me?
Imagine my surprise to wake up this morning to be told that Readings book store in Melbourne had posted an…
Hancock launches his quarantine crackdown
The search for the right balance on border policy continues, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced this afternoon a host…
Isolation nation: how Australia is dealing with its pandemic
At 6.20 p.m. on Friday evening, Scarborough Beach, an oceanside suburb of Perth, looked like it always does: families picnicked…
Hungary’s vaccine strategy risks showing up the EU
You have to admire Hungary’s chutzpah. Not only has it bypassed Brussels to pursue its own vaccine procurement strategy, it…
Will Dogecoin give Elon Musk the last laugh?
There’s something deeply pleasing for fans of cosmic jokes everywhere about the world’s richest man personally taking the time to…
China hawks suffer a setback
The House of Commons was due to vote on the so-called ‘genocide amendment’ to the Trade Bill later today. The proposal…
EXCLUSIVE: Church set to defy Daniel Andrews’ conversion laws
The Presbyterian Church of Australia stands poised to defy Daniel Andrews controversial ‘Change or Suppression Practices Bill’, passed last week. As…
The death of the Republican right has been greatly exaggerated
As Donald Trump goes on trial in the Senate, the Republican party faces the possibility of a crack-up. Trump will…
Capitol Hill: call that a coup?
To understand how far short the Capitol Hill riot falls of any serious standard for insurrection one only needs to…
Can ‘super’ Mario Draghi save Italy from itself?
In the aftermath of the financial crash, two ‘Super Marios’ came to Italy’s rescue. Mario Draghi, then president of the European…
The UN decrees ‘There’s no wrong way to be a woman”
It’s not for nothing that the United Nations entity for women is called UN Women. They do, after all, spend…
Using political logic, quarantines, border closures and lockdowns may never end
The recent knee-jerk lockdown has sparked more discussion about the ‘value’ of a human life. Yes, it may sound callous to put a price on life; yet we…
If business is paying back JobKeeper windfalls, what about the bureaucrats and their bonuses?
JobKeeper. JobSeeker. Job destroyer. Well, the mob has spoken. Those businesses who legally and correctly accessed the Job keeper scheme,…
The ICC is playing politics by targeting Israel
Sovereignty, that old-new friend, is in vogue again thanks to Brexit and the advances made by nationalists across Europe and…
Meghan Markle, the perfect Californian politician
Royal summits are often lavish affairs shown to us lowly peasants through photo spreads in Us Weekly and People. Cockburn…
Why we must fix the feral Tax Office
When underhand, commercial bullying happens in the private sector, there is righteous community uproar. Regulators investigate. Even Royal Commissions can…
Wokespeak: a pocket guide
With the ascendency of Joe Biden and the rise of Leftism around the Western world, it is vital that every…
Introducing a wonderful new news service, Google Boring
While the federal government makes threatening noises at Google and Facebook, egged on by legacy media outlets in what will…
Mark McGowan versus the world
It’s been an eventful week in Western Australia. When I say ‘eventful, I don’t mean ‘fun’ eventful – I mean ‘what…
Yassmin plays dress-ups
When she’s not busy disrespecting our servicemen and women, flouncing around her grand residency in Paris courtesy of the Australia Council, or recounting her generous grant dollars, Yassmin Abdel-Magied (YAM) is…
