by PAUL COLLITS – A GOOD friend, whose views are pretty close to my own, is used to being ignored in the workplace. He’s used to colleagues steering clear of political discussions – and certainly steering clear of engaging with him. One…
by MONICA O’SHEA – BIOLOGICAL men pretending to be women are at risk of workplace pregnancy discrimination, according to Australia’s $400,000 a year Human Rights Commissioner. Commissioner Anna Cody was questioned in Federal Parliament this week over whether transgenders can become pregnant…
by FRED PAWLE – WE IN the Enlightened West can no longer scoff at the destructive delusions of authoritarian societies. In some ways, we are now worse. Those living in liberal democracies have been spared the excruciating dullness and dysfunction that less…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS surely reasonable to expect that, after the trial of Cardinal Pell and the arrest of Alan Jones, the authorities would have learned a lesson. As the US Supreme Court noted in Berger v. United States (1935),…
by PAUL COLLITS – OBSERVERS of political developments in both Britain and Australia will, right about now, see much overlap. One area of apparent difference is the more clearly articulated Christian focus of the British insurgency movement. But first, some context. We…
by FRED PAWLE – OUR hapless Prime Minister has swindled his way into every small business in the country, and he’s not welcome in any of them. It’s easy to shrug off being exposed as a liar if you’ve gamed the whole…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – WHILE Labor’s Federal Budget has copped flak from investors and potential property buyers – including young people it’s supposed to help – it may have created a new defence loophole in legal cases. Anyone facing charges of perjury…
by DAVID FLINT – LAST Thursday night, Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor delivered the Opposition’s Budget Reply, focusing on what he termed “generational tax reform” and significant structural changes to migration and housing. There is significant overlap between Angus Taylor’s 2026 Budget Reply…
by ROGER CROOK – PEAK climate scientists have admitted they were wrong about extreme weather scenarios, referring to their own modelling as “implausible”. While cleaning up my email folder the other day I came across an extraordinary article on Substack by Roger…
by PAUL COLLITS – TREASURER Jim Charmless shameless Budget makes anything Paul Keating ever did look like a stroll in the park. Business analyst Robert Gottliebsen calls his latest Budget the greatest attack on wealth this country has ever seen. In one…
