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Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident)

9 April 2024 12:17 pm

Since being offered a largely pointless and doomed-to-fail role as UN special envoy to Myanmar, the former Liberal Foreign Minister,…

Matt Kean’s opposition to nuclear borders on the absurd

7 April 2024 2:34 am

In the world of political irrelevancy, there are few people climbing higher, harder, and faster than New South Wales Shadow…

Busywork? UN Secretary-General António ‘global boiling’ Guterres appoints Julie Bishop as special envoy to Myanmar

7 April 2024 12:51 am

Australia’s political elite seem to have a knack for clawing their way into prestigious international bureaucracies. This time, it’s former…

Carbon Pawprints: North Korea has gone to the dogs, and so have environmentalists

27 March 2024 1:23 am

In 2020, the dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, ordered the confiscation of dogs owned by those living in the…

If the ABC reforms itself, would you watch it?

25 March 2024 10:09 pm

Kim ‘the Renaissance man’ Williams has promised to fix the national broadcaster

Voiceless in Victoria: farmers horrified by renewable energy fast-tracking

17 March 2024 9:30 am

‘It takes too long:’ Solar and wind farm blockers to be weeded out to fast-track renewable projects. That was the…

Scathing response to Adam Bandt’s private jet hypocrisy

12 March 2024 10:45 pm

How much does it cost to keep the leader of a minor, nature-loving, tree-hugging political party happy? Roughly $1 million,…

Renewable enthusiasts are panicking about Dutton’s genius nuclear plan

11 March 2024 8:33 pm

In recent days, headlines from Net-Zero-inclined publications have become increasingly unhinged. Why nuclear power is ‘madness on steroids’! Peter Dutton wonders when…

Australia Last: Albanese has billions for Asia, but nothing for you

9 March 2024 11:56 pm

Labor Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was proud to announce his $2 billion investment in Southeast Asia following recommendations from the…

Pity those who get between Poilievre and the Prime Minister

4 March 2024 1:22 pm

There’s a new form of savagery in politics, the kind that belongs on the Discovery Channel’s after 10 pm slot where you…

Solar ain’t gonna save us

18 February 2024 7:13 pm

Regardless of what I want, my phone keeps an eye out for trending stories in the world of Renewable energy.…

‘Article Pfizer’ – France to punish criticism of mRNA vaccines

17 February 2024 1:35 am

France, the nation that likes to boast about its approach to liberty and free speech, has passed a law through…

Jacinta Allan’s hypocrisy over Kanye West

11 February 2024 2:10 am

There are plenty of antisemites in the streets of Melbourne

Spy pigeon

6 February 2024 1:58 am

China’s super-secret ‘spy pigeon’ has been unmasked as a humble Taiwanese racing pigeon. So, a little less ‘Bond’ and a…

Labor cannot define ‘women’, but it’s offering them tax cuts

5 February 2024 1:00 am

When Labor’s Minister for Finance and Women, Katy Gallagher, alerted us to her intention to give women tax cuts, my…

Creepy e-bike graveyards

24 January 2024 2:00 am

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of e-bikes were photographed piling up in what has been unofficially dubbed, ‘China’s e-bike graveyard’. It…

Javier Milei: The Western world is in danger!

21 January 2024 12:42 am

Argentina’s President Javier Milei’s speech to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Meeting 2024. Today I am here to tell you…

Batsh*t crazy mice

19 January 2024 2:18 pm

We’re hearing that China is back in the lab, with scientists experimenting on a Covid strain (GX_P2V) that has returned a…

A month of Pride but no Australia Day

11 January 2024 4:10 pm

For months – not days – capital cities across Australia were wrapped in glitter and rainbows to service the feelings…

No one is indigenous to the Moon

9 January 2024 4:19 pm

The American-based Navajo Nation has raised an objection to the latest ‘space funeral’, calling for the mission to be delayed…

Tesla’s Skynet moment

31 December 2023 10:33 am

The news cycle dragged itself out of the Christmas hangover with headlines such as the Daily Mail’s: Tesla robot ATTACKS an…

The King’s Speech

26 December 2023 4:30 pm

Standing in front of a Christmas tree adorned with ornaments dedicated to sustainability, His Majesty King Charles III used every…

Tasteless: fake meat faces extinction

23 December 2023 2:49 pm

The fake meat industry is dying. In August, Wired ran the headline, Fake Meat is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet after weak…

Albanese all at sea over Houthi rebels

21 December 2023 12:27 pm

What has long been regarded as a nuisance in the Red Sea escalated in recent days to a serious economic…

Weather apocalypse-mongering has endangered Queenslanders

19 December 2023 11:17 am

You hear plenty of strange things when you work in retail, but I can’t forget the afternoon I received an…