Immigration and the demographic brioche
The Conversation is an online journal publishing commentary from Australian academics about current issues. It claims to present articles with…
Australian notes
Superglued to the Greens The great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh once catalogued a fictional, remote and newly-converted Christian sect who…
Paul Dyer conducting the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Only a person who is more or less my age can have a direct recollection of the 1953 coronation of…
An upside to invasion?
Nathan Moran, of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council in Sydney, kicked off Naidoc week by criticising the city’s publicly-funded…
Einstein, Marx and the scourge of suicide
Prime Minister Morrison’s commitment to addressing the escalating rate of suicide is commendable and much needed. Given 3,128 Australians committed…
Cancel culture
Everyone who hasn’t spent the last six months under a rock knows about Israel Folau and how he’s raised northwards…
Business/Robbery etc
It really is the greatest moral challenge of our time – and it’s not climate change. It is nationality versus…
Diary
The Holy Land. The Promised Land. The Land of Milk and Honey. Few countries have as many nicknames as Israel.…
Green notes
Renewables fail to pay their way The problem with continued calls for ‘sense’ in the Australian energy market including a…
Lies and the death of democracy
Words matter, concepts matter. Without a shared understanding of language we’d live in a world of chaos. Truth, in other…
Morrison’s climate challenge
It is unacceptable for the Morrison government to carry on blindly ignoring the mounting evidence that far from being ‘settled’,…
Mark Levin puts war first and America last
When Politico reported Wednesday that President Donald Trump was considering having Sen. Rand Paul, meet diplomatically with Iranian officials, conservative…
What will anyone learn from the Detroit debates?
The DNC are ditching porn stars, yacht rides and Pitbull for rusty motors and the 8 Mile Road, as the…
Boris’s critics are only making him stronger
If, as expected, Boris Johnson heads off to Buckingham Palace next Wednesday to become Prime Minister, I fear that a…
Meet 007’s most fearsome enemy: a politically correct lack of imagination
The meh news of the week: Since Daniel Craig announced he was standing down as James Bond, debate has raged…
A religious freedom commissioner: not just worse than doing nothing, but the wrong thing
Attorney-General Christian Porter intends to put the proposed religious discrimination bill to Parliament in the near future. Unveiling the government’s…
Is Boris wrong to claim Islam set the Muslim world back?
I do love the Guardian. As the years go by almost no publication continues to give me such constant amusement.…
The rise and fall of Beto O’Rourke
It wasn’t so long ago when Beto O’Rourke, the punk-rock band member and three-term congressman from West Texas, was the…
To save Western Civilisation, turn right
C S Lewis once observed that when you are going in the wrong direction, the thing to do is go…
How is it fair that unions pay no income tax?
The ACTU continually complain that business, including small business, don’t pay their fair share of income tax. The complaints often…
The only way to solve Labour’s anti-Semitism problem
‘The Labour Party welcomes everyone* irrespective of race, creed, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. (except, it seems, Jews)’. So…
Forget when Belle Gibson will get jail. When will her victims get justice?
When the Belle Gibson trial hit the news again recently all I was able to do was ‘watch on’ as…
The white supremacy phantom
Well la-dee-dah. The House votes to condemn ‘President Trump for his “racist comments” about four Democratic congresswomen of color.’ First,…
Have Their ABC declared Bob Brown an unperson for heresy against the great green goddess Gaia?
‘Unperson’. You know the word. George Orwell coined it for Nineteen Eighty-Four, as being someone erased from society, the past,…
An end to parliamentary rorts in one easy step
This week, Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon passionately defended the $46,000 electoral allowance which he, like other MPs, receives from taxpayers…
