Flat White
Who qualifies for the Voice?
The so-called ‘Voice to Parliament’ is a proposal for a race-based advisory body established via a referendum to amend Australia’s…
Australia’s creeping codependency
There’s an old joke in psychology that when a codependent is dying, they see everyone else’s lives flashing before their…
Why I do not celebrate International Women’s Day (and what I propose in its stead)
International Women’s Day has come and gone once again. March 8 is the day we are exhorted to turn our…
Attempting to cancel Zulu exposes the Left’s idiocy
You would be hard pressed to find an Australian soldier who has served since the reactivation of National Service in…
A fresh approach to energy policy
Current energy policy in Australia is based on the arguments that greenhouse-gas emissions should be sharply reduced and that, as…
Giving six-figures to racism
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…
Rowan Dean: We don’t need a Voice because we already have one
As readers know, I occasionally like to be the bearer of good news and today I am delighted to tell…
Post-referendum blues
Come the referendum and the Voice will be dead or alive. But the shouting will continue. Post-referendum Australia will have…
Rules-Nazis
I went for a surf this morning, vaguely aware of a notion that fibreglass boards shouldn’t be used at the…
Alan Jones: the inescapable truth of the energy crisis
If politicians cared to move into the real world and listened, rather than lectured, they would understand the inescapable truth…
Should white people atone for colonial sin?
It has recently been reported in the ABC that Nathan Maynard, a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, is seeking the body of…
Victimhood: the inversion of evolution by social stealth
There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters.…
The yin and yang of clean energy
After embarking on a clean energy tour to the US and Canada, I came back convinced that nuclear and renewables…
What’s in a name?
Indigenous disadvantage resides not in the affluent city of Mitcham, South Australia, but in the usually out-of-sight remote communities which…
Divine pronouns? Let God decide
The Church of England has been asked to respond to requests from clergy to use gender-neutral pronouns for God. The…
Digital dystopia
Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical…
Defining tyranny: will the Voice end democracy?
What is a tyranny? You probably know that China is a tyranny, even if the experts prefer the term totalitarian. Social…
The ABCs of Covid
A is for Abundance (i.e to exercise a caution of): the only justification required for our leaders to breach our…
The Federation Cross
Away back in the good old days when men could find a job; When money was as good as gold…
3,000 days of Dan
The Victorian Premier’s milestone is not a cause for celebration
How the Libs should defund the ABC
Canada’s conservatives are on the right track
Changing climate change: debunking the global colossus
In a previous article, I discussed how climate science has grown from an obscure theory in the late 80s to…
Biden’s hiring criteria: Woke before worker?!
Americans have until April 3 to challenge proposed subjective ‘suitability and fitness’ criteria for selecting Federal employees. Released February 14,…
Australia: suffocated by regulation and raided by greedy politicians
Gary Banks in The Australian notes how government regulatory measures are destroying our vital comparative advantage in energy supply and promoting inefficient labour…
Sensitivity readers: no better than Medieval statue butchers
‘Yeah, the good news is that this is a right-wing source that is probably blowing it out of proportion. But…
