People die: Cameron criticised for using a word.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants have flooded Europe in recent years, in a perfect storm of Middle East conflict, opportunistic people smugglers, and the collapse of the collective will of Europe to police its...
Is the world going crazy?
Permit me to share a personal confession:
I feel like the world is going crazy.
Perhaps it has always been, and I've only just realised.
I started to notice a new kind of craziness in early 2014...
Hypocrites and Opportunists
Not to be outdone by the Greens, Victorian Trades Hall Council (the Unions) are now joining the chorus of sanctimonious types lecturing everyone else over the Adam Goodes controversy. The Union campaign takes the...
Food for thought: Fracking Farmers
Agriculture, without question, is one of those virtuous works that have helped shape Australia. Australians' right to farm is an absolute necessity, because without food we are dead.
In my home-state of Victoria we have...
Bad sports
It has been widely noted over the past week that the Adam Goodes booing saga has exposed the nasty truth that the average football fan is a boorish racist. Goodes is not the first...
Landslide in Nepal
Up to 20 people were killed today (our time) by a landslide following heavy rainfall in Nepal. The mountain nation is home to some of the poorest people in the world. In the past,...
A subtle and insidious racism
On Tuesday, the Guardian's Celeste Liddle made light of Adam Goodes' "imaginary" and "invisible" spear which he threw into the "general direction of the crowd" on that fated day, earlier this year.
Liddle mocks Goodes stating:
"there...
Food For Thought: In defence of the Speaker
Say what you like about The Honourable Bronwyn Bishop (the 29th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives) but I think she is absolutely brilliant.
At the moment everyone is wanting to slam the Speaker...
What is up with Amnesty International?
What on earth is up with Amnesty International?
This once highly respected organisation continues to fail to speak out against some of the worst human rights violations, and is now tipped to make a decision...
Maximus Goodius Dividesus, and the Roman mob
From time to time the emperor, Caesar, deluded himself that he commanded absolute power in Rome. So too did the Senate, that patently unrepresentative body who presumed to rule Rome also before the emperors,...
Global migrant crisis cannot be solved by moral posturing
Today, a migrant died after 1,500 migrants attempted to storm the Chanel tunnel connecting France to England. This comes off the back of 37,000 foiled attempts to cross the Chanel since January this year.
We...
Couple of criticisms, Bill
Well the ALP conference is over and what great insights have we seen from Bill Shorten’s side of politics? Boat turn-backs, same-sex marriage, 50% renewable energy by 2030, 50% Gender quotas within ALP ranks...
Poll reveals 100% of people believe ABC is biased!
An exclusive XYZ Viewer Poll has revealed that 100% of people believe that the ABC is biased, but there is a wide range of views as to how the issue of bias can be...
Equality and the fallacy of ‘sameness’. Bishop says no to parliamentary quotas
Commenting in response to the drawn out drama of the parliamentary 'quota' saga (it is getting about as long in the tooth and as boring as the Adam Goodes 'booing' saga), Julie Bishop, Australia's...
Hillary Clinton gives a superb demonstration of climate activism
Hilary Clinton gives a superb demonstration of climate activism.
Lecturing the masses on the threat of global warming, Hilary poses at a podium surrounded by bicycles as she gives an ever so earnest speech on...
XYZ is on the money on the Culture War
This story has been flogged far and wide, but it is worth a little more examination. The XYZ presents two articles, the first as an example of the self-loathing flagellation and mental gymnastics to...
AFL issues directive to social media: Stop making fun of Bronwyn Bishop.
In what has been a dramatic 24 hours, the AFL has issued a directive to social media users to stop sharing memes making fun of Bronwyn Bishop's recent indiscretion regarding the claiming of transport...
On hurt feelings and vilification (a last word on the Adam Goodes booing controversy)
This correspondent has had a fair bit to say on the Adam Goodes booing controversy, most of it self confessed satirical tosh designed to mock the do-gooders who would tell a stadium full of...
Child Brides… Australia says ‘No!’
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The problem with quotas
The issue of parliamentary 'quotas' for women resurfaced over the weekend at the Australian Labor Party's national conference.
The ALP, in what is being described as an "historic step", has pledged to ensure that women...