Why we should be worried by China’s Overseas Key Individual Database
Until recently, Australians and their governments have believed that it doesn’t matter what values are held by the nations and…
Is this man a COVID criminal?
The Melbourne Age has a cute little piece of “keep calm and carry on” COVID semi-whimsy today: Every weekday, about…
The CFMMEU’s dirty little secret
There’s a rather clever ad kicking around featuring a naked miner, holding his work hat over his genitals, accusing the…
Geoffrey Cox: I’m a Brexiteer to my core but can’t support Boris’s Bill.
When Geoffrey Cox was Theresa May’s Attorney General it was his refusal to go give his blessing to her Brexit…
Why I’m not predicting a Biden blowout
In 2016, I was one of the very few people who publicly stated the night before the election that, despite…
Danandrewstan and the death of Melbourne, explained
What's really going on in Victoria? Gideon Rozner wrote this primer for an American audience, but it deserves to be read across Australia - and the world.
Delayed football season could cost Big Ten, says Ohio AG
Are you ready for some football? The Big Ten college football conference may be gearing up soon — according to…
Why do our governments favour sharks over swimmers and surfers?
There was a tragic story last week of the surfer killed by a 3.5-metre great white shark at Greenmount Beach,…
What I learnt as an Oxford vaccine guinea pig
Was the Oxford vaccine trial paused? Mine wasn’t. I signed up for it last week, in the 55 to 69-year-old…
The BBC has given up properly reporting on China
Totalitarian powers mostly want foreign journalists to go, but sometimes they want them to stay. China recently detained Michael Smith…
All rise for the National Anthem of Danandrewstan (or else)
Big black suits In their jackboots Are coming down the aisles. Big black suits In their jackboots Are spinning off…
Biden-Harris, Harris-Biden: the epitome of post-truth politics
The endgame isn’t Donald Trump. With the Democratic Convention coronation complete and campaigning underway, It’s Biden-Harris; America’s Seinfeld ticket, a…
Labor ideology is killing Victorian businesses, jobs – and hope
The Victorian Labor Government’s entrenched anti-business ideology is costing tens of thousands of jobs and killing hope. This ramshackle group…
Boris will regret a no-deal Brexit
Much has been said about the prospect of no deal over the past few days – the economics, arguments over…
Do you want to know what’s truly “disgusting and demeaning”, Ms Palaszczuk
Few people could know what it’s like to be bullied by the Prime Minister of Australia. But I imagine it’s…
The ethical collapse of Victoria’s government
On Wednesday I said on the IPA’s Looking Forward Podcast that in Victoria the key democratic institutions are being destroyed by the…
What Bahrain’s deal with Israel really means
On September 15, representatives from the oil-rich Kingdom of Bahrain will meet Israeli leaders at the White House to sign…
Eureka! Ballarat fights again
How fitting that the clarion call to liberate Victorians from the lunacy of lockdown came forth from Miner’s Rest in…
Brown study
You really have to live in Melbourne to appreciate the depressing and disturbing atmosphere that embraces it at the present.…
Australian notes
Mike Carlton does not deserve his gong Welcome to modern Australia, where encouraging the strangulation of women, calling them crazy,…
Covid notes
I’m at risk, but I don’t want lockdowns It’s hard to credit in a democracy like Australia, but five and…
Where are today’s ‘cool heads in a time of crisis’?
We should learn from those who have stared down other potential doomsday threats
