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What a drag!

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What a drag! (excuse gratuitous pun). To be in Glasgow for the Pride march, and the series of associated events, to have sat at the mirror for hours caking on the makeup, done up...

Developing Australia’s top end

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It has been great to see over the last week the drive and enthusiasm that there is to develop Australia's top end. Australia's north is a massive and largely untapped resource, ripe for growth...

XYZ pledges to re-open ‘ABC shops’

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The ABC has announced today it plans to close its ABC shops in a step to move sales online. The Australian newspaper reported that about 300 jobs will be lost, "amid plummeting CD and DVD...

BREAKING: Flannery prediction verified to be true

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After weeks of trawling through transcripts of former 'alarmist of the year', paleontologist, and all round climate good guy, Professor Tim Flannery, the hardworking research team at XYZ (actually this reporter himself really), has...

Australian left goes feral: Refuses to accept blood on its hands

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Bill Shorten sparked outrage last night among Labor and Green true believers, by not just affirming Labor's support for the Coalition policy of boat turn-backs, but acknowledging the moral case, indeed the superior moral...

Leftist media ‘independent’?

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I had a chuckle when I stumbled across the Age newspaper's website this morning. Emblazoned with pride under the Age banner is this: "Independent. Always." Independent from what? Free thinking, perhaps? Independent from corporate interests? Independent from...

How I learned to stop worrying and love petrol

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I found this a very interesting article. It discusses the environmental benefits petrol has brought to the world and to humanity, and how it has contributed enormously to improving human health and our standard of...

WA Government plans to teach Islam

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It was reported yesterday that the Western Australian Government is "planning an extensive campaign to improve the community's understanding of Islam and Muslims." Western Australia's minister for Multicultural Interests, Dr Mike Nahan, described WA as...

Read if you are “ableist” to..

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The vocabulary police were flourishing over the weekend over at the Age, with the frequently delusional Ruby Hamad on the job. Off the playlist in Ruby's car were the otherwise "progressive" Elvis Costello, John...

Sarah ‘Sea Patrol’ outrage over asylum seeker boat

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Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young was today reportedly outraged that she had been denied a prime tweeting opportunity by the Federal Government's callous refusal to confirm or deny the existence of an asylum seeker...