In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
What’s woke this week?
You may have noticed a disturbance in the force this week as the orbits of high fashion, academia and Hollywood collided to form a…
Their ABC and ‘secret lovers’
This morning Their ABC ran early news bulletins that used the phrase ‘secret lover’ referencing the Premier of New South…
Coronavirus tipped us into recession – a recession made inevitable by two decades of policy failures
There is a natural desire for people to compare this current 2020-21 economic recession to earlier ones, with the most obvious…
Busting the super fund spending rorts
The 2020 budget will end the practice of super funds spending your money on themselves thanks to the “your future,…
Why I’m dressing as Daniel Andrews this Halloween
Halloween is the greatest moral dilemma facing Western Civilisation. What started out as a bit of fun involving spooks and…
Not all in this together
When it comes to the coronavirus it is simply untrue, in many ways, to say that we’re all in this…
Australia must have nothing to do with UN Council of Human Rights
Imagine the outcry if Donald Trump appointed five members of the Ku Klux Klan to oversee race relations. There would…
What’s benevolent about ‘benevolent surveillance’?
Governments have shown a disturbing desire to control the behaviour of their citizens with technology. The NSW government intends to…
Parliamentary showdown looms today over Daniel Andrews’ freedom of movement bars
Victorian Liberals will today move amendments to the controversial COVID-19 Omnibus (Emergency Measures) Bill that will scrap the five-kilometre rule…
We know Daniel Andrews has maimed Melbourne. He’s also wreaking ruin in the regions
The implementation of Victoria’s lockdown restrictions highlights the growing divide between Melbourne and regional Victoria. The Melbourne centric Victorian government…
Australia should treat China as a political psychopath
Lowy Institute fellow Alan Dupont, CEO of geopolitical risk consultancy the Cognoscenti Group, commenting on China and our strained relations…
Sorry Gladys, time to go
“I have always put the public first”, Gladys Berejiklian told a media conference this afternoon, following shocking, explosive revelations at…
Daniel Andrews’ top mandarin turns out to be a lemon
The Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet Chris Eccles, who resigned today, revelled in his position as…
Leftists can’t even define what a woman is, so how can they claim we’ve been short-changed by the budget?
Federal Budget week invariably results in a myriad of commentary about the focus of the budget and its winners and…
People taking responsibility in Danandrewstan? That’s dangerous
People taking responsibility in Danandrewstan? Things have just got very dangerous for Premier Daniel Andrews. Chris Eccles, the career bureaucrat…
Petitions are the new elections – if you’re Kevin Rudd
If you can’t win elections, what are your options? Will you sit back and accept democracy, or will you arrogantly…
A development binge and budget fears cloud Canberra’s looming Legislative Assembly poll
With the ACT election six just days away, Canberrans, however deep their Labor loyalties, are beginning –just — to realise…
How to win your campus elections: a guide
It’s election season on Australian university campuses. So you want to be elected as a student representative at your university’s student association…
A republic – or Krazy King Kev?
Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, and Peter FitzSimons all fancy themselves Australia’s next king. Not as a constitutional monarch with limited…
On this International Day of the Girl Child, we must condemn the insidious violence of sex-selective abortion
Today is the International Day of the Girl Child, an opportunity to address the unique challenges girls face around the…
Peta Credlin stood up for accountability. We don’t know about Twitter has-beens, but that’s what all good journos do
Forget that a bungled hotel quarantine program led to the deaths of 800 largely helpless Victorians. The real scandal is…
Death of a feminist
I have written before about Hot for Teacher. The Van Halen guitar rock megahit was a touchstone for cultural norms…
Budget 2020: Government keeps feeding poison to the power system
The budget allocated $8.7 million to assist the Vales Point generator in New South Wales in a $100 million upgrade…
She’s made a career from her terrible choices in men – so of course Taylor Swift is backing Biden
Taylor Swift — who has made a career of writing songs about her terrible choices in men — has officially…
How lockdown left 1.25 million school students behind
New Centre for Independent Stuides research confirms the breadth of educational damage of school closures — especially troubling for Victorian…