Waleed Aly: Fact or fiction?
Yesterday, the cartoonist and author, Paul Zanetti penned a rather interesting piece concerning media darling and host of Channel 10's the Project, Waleed Aly, on the Adam Goodes saga.
Zanetti notes that Aly is a master...
Saint Cecil
In breaking news, unverified reports from the Congo indicate that Cecil the lion has appeared in the skies over a remote village. One resident, speaking via a scratchy Skype connection, likened the manifestation of...
Buying into the Cecil controversy
I want to start by making it clear that I don’t understand, at all, why anyone would want to ritually kill a magnificent wild animal like a lion, or an elephant, or a feral...
Swans chairman: Adam Goodes booers like rape victim blamers
The dizzying and absurd heights of the Adam Goodes saga continues...
When you thought that this saga couldn't escalate any further, the chairman of the Sydney Swans, Andrew Pridham, has branded the actions of booers...
Johnson quits cricket – cites English crowds’ taunts – branded racist
Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has announced his retirement today, effective immediately, citing the merciless ribbing he receives from British fans every time he takes the field. After a particularly horrendous Test match at...
Weekend in depth: The Church of the Closed Mind
“When a man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” G.K. Chesterton.
The famous quote from G.K. Chesterton may be too pejorative for some, and does not always ring...
Climate change oxymorons and ad hominems
"Are there any phrases in today’s political lexicon more obnoxious than “the science is settled” and climate-change deniers'?"
John Steele Gordon, writing for the Wall Street Journal asks this very question.
For anyone who is frustrated...
Conservative women in leadership
The witch hunt against the Speaker of the House of Representatives has reached a new level of shrillness over the last few weeks with the unfolding of the Bronny chopper affair.
The chartering of the...
Student Totalitarians
God help us if these student totalitarians ever get near real power before they have grown up - it will be the Gulag, or worse, for Christopher Pyne, after they have publicly burned his...
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...
