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Dogged Dees Go Down: Courage and Character in football

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Yesterday I watched my beloved Dees battle hard against a quality Collingwood side. For most of the match it was a riveting contest, with...

Breaking News: If you alter the data, it is back on message.

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Big climate news was trumpeted last week, with reports that the Global Warming Pause, which at first did not exist, then did exist but...

Quote of the Day, 8/6/2015: Cracking the ton!

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Today's Quote of the Day comes from an unnamed XYZ contributor: "Watching 'likes' for The XYZ is like watching Michael Clarke accumulate runs when you're...

Conservative men physically stronger

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Over many years, the argument has been put forward that progressives are more intelligent than conservatives. In fact, popular culture assumes that conservatives have...

Weekend Arts: Every artist in Australia knows that public funding of the arts is...

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The government can save billions of dollars in subsidies, grants, awards, and let's face it, welfare payments, by removing all funding for The Arts...

Weekend Arts: Ideological art

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Here is a brief article on the nature of modern art, and an attempt at an explanation as to how it manages not to...

Is fossil fuel divestment tokenistic?

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Last year, the Australian National University attracted headlines with its plan to divest from companies deriving income from the sale of fossil fuels. This...

XYZ poll: Majority favours full-scale invasion to smash ISIS.

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The numbers are in on the first XYZ viewers poll, which examined the best way to deal once and for all with the Islamic...

Breaking: Eddie Betts booed by Carlton fans, gets on with game!

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In sensational scenes at the MCG today, former Carlton Football Club star, Eddie Betts, was booed by his former supporters, in Carlton's heartbreaking narrow...

Quote of the Day, 6/6/15.

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Great news everybody!  The XYZ has received its first nasty private message.  We believe it is only fitting that this lovely correspondence makes our...