Dis-con notes
Next please, PM Last week’s editorial, ‘In praise of the PM’, rightly gave Prime Minister Scott Morrison ‘full marks ……
John William Waterhouse.The Lady of Shalott 1888 oil on canvas.
That a poet could enjoy huge popularity in mid-career and still be popularly admired more than a century after his…
‘Til we build Jerusalem
The two most commonly heard observations by Australians who visit Israel are firstly, that the country does not resemble the…
Business/Robbery etc
An act of utter corporate bastardry – but there was no alternative. When the Commonwealth Bank’s new duo of chairman…
How The West was run
There aren’t many histories or biographies written by Australians that sociologists and anthropologists will turn to in the future in…
Last Quango in Paris
This week, the world’s climate-obsessed leaders meet in Katowice in Poland in a desperate attempt to put teeth into the…
Why the New Testament shouldn’t come with trigger warnings
Demands for the New Testament and Koran to contain alerts in the margins of those passages that have been used…
Tinker, tailor, soldier, Mr Harbourside Mansion?
George Papadopoulos has gone to gaol, it seems, for lying to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller. Scott Morrison is going into…
It’s time the Tattersalls president stood up for equal rights for men
Revolution is brewing in Brisbane’s venerable Tattersalls Club, but it’s not about letting in women. In fact, the revolution is…
Liberals note: conservative does not mean reactionary
Congratulations to Dan Andrews and Labor on a very strong result. Their ability to campaign effectively should never be underestimated…
Your social credit has been declined
I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but…
Apocalypse not
I have read that Pope Francis believes that climate change is such a big danger to the planet that it could turn…
Derryn Hinch’s public sex offenders register would be outrageous
In the wake of last weekend’s Victorian State election, Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party (probably with four shiny Upper House seats)…
After Victoria, Liberals still have the values and the ideas to win
Another Victorian election, and another Liberal loss, leaving the state with a financially profligate and socially radical government in near…
Ten reasons why Imran Khan’s theology is just not cricket
Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, caused controversy recently when he said in a speech celebrating the anniversary of…
“Progressive” ideas didn’t win Victoria, conservative ideas went missing
I don’t believe for one moment that Daniel Andrew’s stunning election victory means Australians are converts to “progressive” politics. Does…
The EU’s anti-science laws hit here
Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that he’d be passing up the United Nations’ Migration pact on the basis that a global…
Caution: gay people crossing
First we’ve had skirts put on pedestrian crossing lights’ little people, because apparently, unlike children, some adults think that stick figures…
Bernardo Bertolucci and fake news
The great Italian film director, Bernardo Bertolucci died on Monday. The bloke is hardly cold and the savages are already…
The surveillance state’s chameleons
In the USA they are collaborators with the “deep state”. In Australia, they are champions of privacy. Global tech companies…
The Victorian Liberals caused their own catastrophe
Now the dust of last Saturday’s electoral bloodbath in Victoria is starting to settle, it’s time for some sober reflection. …
Give speech a chance
It’s time once again, good people, to take out your pen and paper (or your QWERTY keyboard and computer) and…
Both Labor and the Coalition threaten religious schools
Religious schools may be fundamentally undermined by Commonwealth parliamentarians adopting flawed amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act in their admirable…
Victoria: the fallen mighty
Australia’s Baby Boomers cut their teeth on flourishing rivalries against a backdrop of dreams and aspirations, achievements being carved out…
How the state has killed sex
Earlier this week, the Tasmanian Parliament voted for new laws which: Make it ‘hate speech’ to not use someone’s preferred gender…
