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The God delusion: men seeking womb transplants

9 February 2023 2:25 am

Last week, I stumbled over the Daily Mail article titled: EXCLUSIVE: Womb transplants for TRANS women are ‘very likely in the near future’,…

Productivity: are Australians working too hard, or not hard enough?

8 February 2023 6:00 am

Productivity is defined as a measure of the efficiency of production of goods and services, in simple terms the number…

‘No’ means no: the sensible case against the Voice

8 February 2023 5:00 am

Anthony Albanese’s first act as Prime Minister was to replace two of the three Australian flags in the Parliament House…

Naked self-interest: Chalmers, Labor, and the unions

8 February 2023 4:30 am

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ essay in The Monthly is an urgent, although not particularly eloquent, proof of the need for organisations like…

Warming the till: preachers of the apocalypse make billions

8 February 2023 4:00 am

Political agenda dressed in the lab coat of science

Delilah is banned, what’s next?

7 February 2023 8:00 am

Delilah is a 1967 chart-topper first sung by the Welsh dragon Sir Tom Jones. The song topped the charts in many…

Ardern escapes election judgment

7 February 2023 6:00 am

On the morning of August 26, 2021, my wife and I arrived at Christchurch Airport, New Zealand, for our flight…

Messing with ‘the maths’

7 February 2023 5:00 am

It looks like Queensland is about to join most other states in Australia and allow people to change their sex…

Liberals: look to Meloni for centre-right success

7 February 2023 4:30 am

Following the delivery of the Liberal Party’s post-election review, the Loughnane-Hume report, at the end of 2022, the former member…

Cost-of-living crisis to cross the Nullarbor

7 February 2023 4:00 am

The Net Zero agenda is fuelling the cost-of-living crisis that mainstream Australians are facing as household energy bills and everyday…

On gambling, we shall all be Catholics

6 February 2023 6:00 am

Former ClubsNSW CEO Josh Landis made a now infamous comment (that he has apologised for) suggesting NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet…

Achieving Net Zero

6 February 2023 5:30 am

According to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines…

The Australian socialist experiment: quasi-nationalisation and re-purposing of free-markets

6 February 2023 5:00 am

This is the third of three articles examining the new Australian socialist experiment that is now well underway. The first…

Vaping: public health’s unhealthy obsession

6 February 2023 4:00 am

The Australian public health industry is overpopulated with intellectual egotists – activists, academics, and bureaucrats who insist they know best…

Defying Wokism at Cardinal Pell’s funeral

5 February 2023 6:00 am

As the funeral of Cardinal George Pell commenced with a procession of clergy and the singing of the great Wesleyan…

The Canberra ‘Voice’

5 February 2023 5:00 am

You have probably read that the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is expected to provide an opportunity for an elected assembly…

Sea life: cruising after Covid

5 February 2023 4:30 am

The former Premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, probably never wanted to see the Ruby Princess again. Three years…

I support Australia Day: the NSW Police moved me along

5 February 2023 4:00 am

On the morning of Australia Day last week, I made my way to the Invasion Day Sydney protest with an I Support Australia…

Passion makes you smarter

4 February 2023 6:00 am

During my primary schooling in Iran in the early 1970s, I worked at my dad’s workshop every morning and attended…

Game, set and match on Australia’s Covid response

4 February 2023 5:00 am

Twelve months ago, Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia for allegedly (and essentially, by way of description from the minister)…

‘Australian Capitalism’: Jim’s philosophising swells rivers of sorrow

4 February 2023 4:00 am

Jim Chalmers, Treasurer of Australia, has used his summer to produce a paean to statism. Chalmers’ essay, Capitalism after the…

Where have all the blue bottles gone?

4 February 2023 1:00 am

It used to be common on some hot summer days at Sydney beaches for surfers to mysteriously wear full-length wetsuits…

Just a bit of creative accounting! 

3 February 2023 11:14 am

I can just imagine it. Anthony Albanese, brow furrowed, his poisonous tongue flittering in concentration, grasps a mauve crayon. Scribbled…

There’s a hole in the bucket

3 February 2023 6:00 am

Do you know the song, There’s a hole in the bucket dear Liza, dear Liza? ‘Song’ might be too strong…

Controversial idea: should we end mandatory schooling?

3 February 2023 5:00 am

Forced schooling has had over a century to prove its worth and has been an utter failure to the wellbeing…