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Everything you need to know about the shock ‘Daniel Andrews will romp home’ Newspoll
An election is 12 months away. It’s an academic exercise. (Ok. It does show the Victorian Liberal Party remains about…
Responsibility on the march
Saturday, November 20 2021 should be recorded as a day of significance in Australia’s contemporary diary. It was a day…
Santa Claus isn’t coming to town (if he’s not vaccinated)
If you’re screening and excluding family members from Christmas lunch according to their vaccination status, you’re doing Christmas all wrong.…
Religious freedom bill misses heart of the problem
The big lie of the Yes campaign for same-sex marriage was that no one else’s freedoms would be messed with. It’s…
Bravo to the Rittenhouse jury
How disingenuous can one 79-year-old mentally enfeebled President be? Here is Biden’s reaction to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict: While the…
Braveheart?
Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday discovered his inner Braveheart. “Sons of Australia. I am Scott Morrison,” he told a hastily…
What on earth is going on in South Australia?
Adelaide was roiled this week by the spectacle of Deputy Premier and Attorney-General, Vickie Chapman, refusing to stand down after…
Adem Somyurek vs Daniel Andrews: don’t laugh, this isn’t funny
Forget House of Cards. This is more like that season of Dallas that turned out to be a dream. The…
Please accept my resignation from the Church with immediate effect
Dear Sir/Madam/Whomever it may concern, I write as, until now, a life-long communicant of the Church of England, or whatever…
How the green blob runs on hypocrisy
The climate change world runs on hypocrisy, from presidents and prime ministers to virtue-signalling billionaires and multinationals, and pious individuals.…
Downfall?
Since Covid hit, Daniel Andrews has been perched atop his throne, ruling Victoria with an iron fist. There has been…
Four vaccine vexes
1 Vaccines are 95 per cent efficacious. Yeah, right. And double positives never make a negative. Figure 1 gives the…
Time to die, Mr Bond. Time to die
It is said that No Time to Die will be the twenty-fifth and last Bond movie made. There are two possible reasons.…
Nuclear energy is our only way forward
What’s going to happen? Is everything going to be ok? What should we do? Predicting the future has always been…
John Roskam: well done, friend and freedom fighter
Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam has announced he will be standing down after 17 years at the…
Who stands with Dan? The cult revealed
Who, exactly, make up the members of the Cult of Dan, those hashtag warriors who instead of rattling off Hail…
Breathe easy: Perrottet records false positive for the Dan Andrews strain of governance
For a moment yesterday it seemed that the New South Wales Liberals had caught the deadly Chinese flu dictator variant…
Language, power – and Covidspeak
Of all the known unknowns of the Covid-19 pandemic, of who to blame and of how to act, one certainty…
So much for amendments to the pandemic bill. Habeas corpus still goes out the door
The idea that a government could be handed near-absolute power to control the lives of citizens indefinitely ought to be…
The terrible truth about hydrogen
The idea of using hydrogen in the energy industry is not a new one, but only in the last two years has it…
Men in women’s sport? They just want equality, right?
It helps to be insane if you want to understand modern culture. Take this article from the Seven West Media-owned PerthNow…
#DanIsWobbling?
Oh, to be a fly on the wall when the Politbureau of Danandrewstan meets. Today’s concessions on the Pandemic Bill…
Dateline Glasgow: India and China save Australia’s bacon (and coal industry)
COP26 in Glasgow has ended in the manner largely predicted at the outset: with an ambiguously worded ‘Glasgow Pact’ containing…
Andrews pandemic powers push voters over the edge
As Victorian voters show early signs of recovery from their 262 days in lockdown Daniel Andrews’ Spring Street outfit is…
The Liberals. The shrinking tribe
Before there were countries, there were tribes. In politics, there still is. Almost everyone identifies with a particular political tribe and, if even if one’s primary tribe is not one…
