Lady Luck has deserted Trump
‘The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end,’ said Donald Trump on July…
Are protesters now essential workers?
One minute the media are telling us coronavirus is so lethal that we dare not leave our homes. The next…
Which black lives matter?
There is practically universal agreement that George Floyd was unjustly killed by police officer Derek Chauvin and that his life…
Bill de Blasio unites cops and protesters — in disgust
New York City is crumbling into shambolic lawlessness and its citizens are growing more afraid and frustrated by the day.…
Welcome to recession – with a ticking personal debt bomb
My family migrated to Australia in the 1950s with barely enough cash to bless themselves. Such is the story of…
The protests have not ended COVID-19
Remember when peaceful protesters of the economic lockdown were smeared for apparently putting lives at risk by utilizing their First…
Why is Ben & Jerry’s lecturing us about ‘white supremacy’?
When this chapter in America’s history of its struggle against racism is written, two names will stand out among all…
Twitter’s fact-check reignites calls for big tech regulation
Twitter began ‘fact-checking’ President Trump’s tweets for the first time last week, raising questions about the role that social media…
How to destroy civilization
Yogi Berra was right: it’s déjà vu all over again. Just turn on the evening news. If you are old…
Inside the final act of the Brexit drama
The fourth round of official Brexit negotiations resumed on Tuesday, screen-to-screen. They will determine whether the stalemate can be broken…
America or Australia: #AllLivesMatter
To anyone who thinks that the recent race riots in the US is about racial justice and not police brutality…
Boris Johnson’s backbench problem
After spending Tuesday afternoon queuing in a socially distanced conga line across the parliamentary estate, many MPs found themselves in…
Contact tracing may be more of a placebo than a cure
We have been told by the Government that an effective test, track and trace programme is the key to ‘controlling’…
Anti-police protesters don’t have a clue
Recently I returned to the coast after spending almost a year reporting the news in Mount Isa. The Aboriginal and…
ScoMo’s renovation rescue needs a rethink
When the Morrison Government’s home renovation cash grants were announced on Monday, one couldn’t help but think about the wealthy…
This is not America, so don’t play at riots here
Australian eyes are turned across the Pacific, gazing in dismay as the United States once again engages in destructive domestic…
A night in an American riot
Race riots have gripped the nation over the past week, eclipsing the peaceful protesters demanding justice for the death of…
Dear dictators: don’t lecture the US on how to treat its people
If you’ve been watching the news, you would think the United States is a third world nation on the verge…
It’s not just Canberra. The states face a corona budget belting too
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn state government policies into the response to a national crisis like rarely before — a…
Children of the revolution
Some steal their luxury leisure goods, but others take their leisure by the luxury of right, and all of it…
Mayhem in Manhattan
It’s important — and easy — to tell the difference between protesters and looters. Just as New York should have…
The government isn’t taking the risk of contact tracing fraud seriously
Experts have a get-out clause of which politicians can only dream when they are speaking from the podium at press briefings.…
This riot is brought to you by Nike
In Chicago last weekend 82 people were shot, 22 of them fatally. Between May 2019 and late May 2020, homicide…
The double standards of the London protestors
So now we know. All the things said about Dominic Cummings – that he shattered the lockdown, that he thinks…
Drew Pavlou: “We know what we are doing. We learned from Tiananmen.”
The suspension of University of Queensland student, Drew Pavlou, was announced late last week following the decision of a disciplinary tribunal set up by the University’s…
