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The Planet of the Humans: Moore vs Gore and the renewables recidivists
Michael Moore’s The Planet of the Humans is currently one of the top trending videos on YouTube. Just in time…
Are the Trump outrage merchants drunk on their own hand sanitiser?
Have we all really become that stupid? Has it really come to this? Have we all lost the ability to…
Even the left don’t want Turnbull
Poor Malcolm Turnbull. The Liberals don’t want him; he may even be expelled from the party for being such…
Everyone thinks they’re a great writer when corona cabin fever strikes
Pandemic Poetry On isolation How the hell do you spell pendemic anyway? Maybe I should use a thesaurus, no that…
Yassmin’s Gallipoli offensive – thwarted
Narcissist nutjob and professional victim Yassmin Abdel-Magied — presumably currently suffering in Paris’ oh so trendy Marais district on the…
Mark Latham takes on the ‘anti-discrimination’ industry
I don’t know when it happened precisely, but Mark Latham has become one of the champions of religious freedom in…
Lessons from the Anzacs as we navigate crisis
National crises challenge liberal democracy more than anything else. Citizens surrender civil liberties they couldn’t imagine living without in ordinary…
Privacy fears over the corona app? We lost our privacy long ago
All this carry-on about the corona app is way too late. Worrying about our privacy? We lost that a while…
Our deep thinking corona crusaders – and others
In the fight against coronavirus, it is disconcerting to have people barracking for the virus. The latest cheer-leader for the…
Castle falls
“Thank God.” I’m sure that is what Israel Folau would like to Tweet right now. The Chief Executive Officer of…
Australia and China: where to after this?
Coronavirus has reinvigorated discussions around the Sino-Australian relationship. Australia’s dependence on China highlights how interconnected we are on trade and…
School closures hurt disadvantaged families more
Schools are one of the most complex parts of the policy response to coronavirus. Policymakers seemingly have to navigate the…
China: diminished and exposed
A propaganda banner reads: “Create Happiness for the People”. The CCP, the Chinese Criminal Party, is steeped in the communist…
WHO on earth do they think they are?
I woke up this morning to one of the strangest tweets ever. It was from World Health Organisation boss Tedros…
“Corona-sexism”, cry the poor me women brigade
The Morrison government has poured not one million, not several million, but $1 billion into support services during this coronavirus…
Random thoughts on the coronavirus lockdown
For some time now I have been a sceptic as to the relative or statistical dangers of this coronavirus as…
If you want reliable reporting on the corona crisis, don’t bother with the(ir) ABC
The(ir) ABC likes to portray itself as the all-knowing, all-seeing receptacle of truth. It spends vast amounts of energy (and other…
RIP climate alarmism: 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’ coffin
Reason No.1: The complete collapse in trust in the United Nations and its associated organisations The World Health Organisation and the…
We also need an endgame to help corona cabin fever
The government needs to provide more details for their lockdown exit strategy. The lockdowns have isolated people, increased stress and…
Virgin no more
Yesterday, Virgin Australia announced to the ASX that it had entered into voluntary administration and that it intended to recapitalize…
Scott, Josh and Mathias: here’s how you get us out of this mess
The Morrison government has flagged tax cuts and aggressive deregulation as part of a pro-business road to economic recovery. A…
War, death and courage
Among the victims of coronavirus is our habit of annual pilgrimage to Anzac Cove in Turkey. And, tied to our…
We need to follow Trump and suspend immigration
In the years since the global financial crisis successive governments both Labor and Coalition have continued to run extremely high…
Flattening the curve or just muddling on?
We appear to have seven Australian governments that are paralysed, unable to decide whether they are really “flattening the curve”,…
The last post for Kokoda?
Whoever thought Anzac Day would be defeated by a bat-soup virus from a wet-food market in China or that the…
