Cancer fakers the real deplorables
Cancer touches every single one of us at some point, either through family and friends or directly when we sit before a medical specialist …
Facial recognition: what could possibly go wrong?
COAG met yesterday, the Prime Minister and the premiers of the states and chief ministers of the territories with Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman, only …
What did you do in the Macklemore War, Dad?
In years to come our children might ask, “What did you do in the Macklemore War, Dad?” My response will be, “Like a lot …
SSM survey takes the cake
There are lots of problems with the forthcoming same sex marriage postal survey but the biggest one is voters are essentially voting blind in …
Leave our statues alone, pigeons need them
It is often said that Australia is a cultural clone of the United States, albeit ten years behind. That seems to have been whittled …
A humble human guinea pig on Keytruda trial
Last night I went to bed early with a raging sore throat and a runny nose. If anything, those symptoms are a touch worse …
The real question is should governments govern?
When the time comes for me to scratch away at the voluntary postal plebiscite, I will be voting no. And I say so presuming …
Cricket fans treated like mugs
Take a knee, readers. The world watches and waits while North Korea’s psychotic-in-chief, Kim Jong-un, draws radiations symbols on a map of the Pacific. …
Australia’s end of innocence
Sydney has joined many of the great cities in the world in having police on patrols armed with assault rifles. The Colt M4 …
This sugar rush will soon dissolve to anger
A very curious thing is happening in the parliament today. The Social Services Legislation Amendment Bill is set to be waved through the House …