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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

Temptations of a digital world

3 April 2024 1:43 am

In his recent book, The Anxious Generation, the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns about the debilitating and destructive impact of mobile phones…

ABC failed fact check on Dick Smith: ‘Can a country run entirely on renewable energy?’

3 April 2024 1:00 am

On March 18, 2024, Dick Smith argued that there is a necessary role for nuclear in Australia’s energy mix (for…

Week in 60 Minutes S2E9: Airbus Albo and Boeing Bowen – Michael de Percy, Edie Wyatt, Andrew L. Urban

3 April 2024 12:15 am

Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen have made a laughing stock out of…

Truth Telling, circular arguments, and the wrongful conviction of colonialism

2 April 2024 3:30 am

Just when you thought Australians had voted firmly against the Voice to Parliament and its entire grievance baggage, Indigenous Australians…

Floating nuclear power plants make a compelling argument

2 April 2024 3:00 am

About 20 years ago, a seat-warming Senator came out of hiding and declared his thought bubble that Australia’s coast was…

Nuclear: seizing the day for a sustainable tomorrow

2 April 2024 2:10 am

In the realm of politics, ideologies often trump the pursuit of pragmatic solutions, even when the facts stare us in…

70 per cent of EV data is made up

2 April 2024 2:00 am

Evangelistic EV drivers tell me that as an academic, I should know better. They are unimpressed when I do not…

Easter silence: corporations, councils, and governments bury another Christian festival

1 April 2024 3:17 pm

Last year, swathes of my local area spent time swaddled in trans flags, rainbow flags, and Welcome to Country messaging.…

Graham Linehan Down Under

1 April 2024 2:43 pm

Graham Linehan, creator of sitcoms and casualty of trans activism, has finally arrived Down Under. He almost didn’t make it.…

Surviving the wild: the road to Kibera

1 April 2024 1:12 pm

I found myself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, planning on making a trip down to Nairobi overland. Some friends had…

Will the Brisbane Olympics leave a legacy or a millstone for the Australian taxpayer?

1 April 2024 12:13 pm

The rejection by Queensland Premier Steven Miles of his own independent Olympic venue review and its recommendation for a new…

Road House: big dumb fun that takes itself too seriously

1 April 2024 2:44 am

The original Road House movie, released in 1989 and starring Patrick Swayze, was an absolute blast. Over-the-top, sexy, and oozing with masculinity, Road…

The gender critical movement fighting against self-ID

1 April 2024 2:00 am

With reports in the press about further ‘clashes’ in Melbourne last week between ‘trans’ and ‘anti-trans’ activists, and the self-inflicted…

Alexandra Marshall Live S2E7 with Gary Hardgrave

1 April 2024 12:15 am

What is the future of media going to look like in a world of government censorship, hysterical political activism, and…

All schools are ‘faith-based’ schools

31 March 2024 12:21 am

Facts and information can be neutral, but teaching is never neutral. All schools are faith-based schools. Some are more intentional…

South Australian Voice flops with abysmal 8.7 per cent turnout

29 March 2024 7:22 pm

The South Australian First Nations Voice to Parliament, legislated by the Malinauskas state Labor government, has flopped ignominiously. This follows…

A nuanced view of the nuclear option

29 March 2024 6:13 pm

Matthew Warren brings a refreshingly nuanced view to the acrimonious nuclear power debate because he knows enough about electricity generation…

Our new 21st Century virtues

29 March 2024 4:55 pm

What are the weapons of choice employed by Culture War activists? Emotions and accusations certainly, but also, more subtly perhaps,…

The problem with Japan’s economy

29 March 2024 11:21 am

Japan’s increase of its interest rates to being from negative to positive for the first time in 17 years was…

Double Shot S2E7 The fallout from the Tasmanian election – Eric Abetz, Dave Pellowe, James Allan

29 March 2024 12:15 am

Newly elected Eric Abetz joins us to discuss what the future of Tasmanian politics will look like as the Coalition…

The Great Covid Debate

28 March 2024 3:00 am

Recently, dedicated vaccine supporter Jack the Insider took on NSW Libertarian MP John Ruddick, who has opposed Covid vaccines from…

Australian Universities Accord to take the hammer to TAFE

28 March 2024 2:30 am

Amid an acute nationwide worker shortage, only the political class in Canberra would propose something as counterproductive as the takeover…

Is corporate Australia ashamed of Easter?

28 March 2024 2:00 am

This week, Holy Week for Christians, I went to a Westfield shopping mall in Melbourne. Being the week before Easter,…

The art of ugliness

27 March 2024 3:30 am

All art is political, said Orwell. To say otherwise is a political statement. In a time of mass society and…

The era of informed consent is over

27 March 2024 3:00 am

In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified…