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Michelle 2024?
David Axelrod is America’s smartest political strategist on the left. He has an impressive track record in backing longshots who…
A teetotal Parliament House?
Christmas seems a good time to bring up alcohol. Having recently moved to Manly, I am now living near the…
Barossa ban risks turning Australia into a trade pariah
Australia has a hard-won reputation as a reliable trading partner throughout our region, but without serious red tape reduction, and…
The government’s censorship agenda is out in the open
The federal government has previously maintained that its proposed misinformation laws would not allow the government to censor the internet.…
It’s the narrative, stupid!
The Climate Emergency movement is an illustration of the ‘power of a narrative’. The mass of people caught up in…
The energy Grinch
Just before Christmas, the CSIRO presented the government with an analysis in support of their beliefs that wind and solar…
Failing Israel in its darkest hour
At 6.29 am on October 7, nearly 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded the State of Israel unleashing one of the most…
Seduced by communism
The communistic approach, which underpins much of the West’s ‘good people/bad people’ political thought, is right – the haves are…
Peter Dutton’s Christmas message: we live in the best country in the world
Australians will be looking forward to this Christmas; 2023 has been a year of hardships at home and adversity abroad.…
There you go. I said it. ‘Christmas!’
I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. There you go. I said it. ‘Christmas!’ Isn’t it strange how…
Carols by Candlelight: a true Australian tradition
The tradition of Carols by Candlelight in Australia finds its roots intertwined with the arrival of the Cornish Methodist miners…
Merry Wokemas
‘Rejoice in the birth of a brown-skinned, Middle-Eastern, undocumented immigrant.’ You might have seen this message around the place in…
Is Wikipedia struggling to maintain neutrality in times of political unrest?
In the realm of social media, Wikipedia isn’t a platform that comes to mind. It isn’t thought to possess hate…
A victory for commonsense!
In a win for commonsense, education ministers across the country have recently signed off on measures requiring universities to include…
Volcanoes, another end-of-the-world scenario
Those who think we can control the power of nature are deluded. The latest threat comes from Iceland. After a…
Swimming between the Woke flags
One of the things that makes Australia so great is the fact that more than a quarter of Australians aged…
1.5 degrees of idiocy
There is not a lot of rigour in the COP process. This year’s extravaganza has predictably produced a platitudinous wish…
Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad thanks Australia
Ghazi Hamad, leader of the terror group Hamas, appears to have warmly welcomed Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister…
The yellow bus to nowhere
The middle Melbourne rail loop – Cheltenham to Box Hill for starters – will go on through the west and…
Cyclones, dunnies, and a belated confession
As far north Queensland mops up after the flooding and mayhem largely resulting from unpreparedness in the wake of Cyclone…
From West to East: shifting global power via Net Zero
The 28th annual scourging of fossil fuel users, the Conference of Parties (COP28), has been and gone. Like the previous…
Godzilla Minus One: an absolute riot!
In 1954, Ishirō Honda released Gojira. The movie centres on Godzilla, a gigantic reptile that is brought to life after being…
A year of failure for Albanese and Labor
During the election campaign of 2022, one got the impression that Labor Opposition Leader, Anthony Albanese, didn’t take winning the…
The politics of envy
One of the defining moments of the 2004 federal election was Mark Latham’s hit list of wealthy non-government schools and…
Science is a political dystopia
There was a time when science was seen as the domain of the nerdy few. When the topic of careers…
