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Men’s health need not be an oxymoron
Back in August, I announced my cancer diagnosis. Last week an examination by cystoscope showed no ghastly tumour had returned to my bladder. It’s …
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Green Army hits a snag
Canberra is a huge sausage-making machine and, as they say, no one would want to eat a sausage after seeing how it’s made. Last …
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Hinch shows damage of good intentions mired in egomania
Much has been made of the Turnbull government’s successes in the last week of sitting in the federal parliament. Malcolm Turnbull is crowing but …
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The devil’s greatest trick
The 19th Century French poet, Charles Baudelaire, wrote the devil’s greatest deception was convincing the world he didn’t exist. On Monday a German federal …
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Sugar, sugar everywhere so let’s all have a drink
The long, soul-destroying national debate has begun. Should the Commonwealth find yet another way of pick-pocketing the citizenry by taxing sugar? Predictably the Greens …
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The Contrabulous Phantasmagorica of Senator Rodney Culleton
I’m going to miss Rodney Culleton. He has painted a vision of a libertarian Australia where our laws and indeed our entire legal system …
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Australia’s underworld and murder most foul
On Tuesday night, Pasquale Barbaro was shot dead in his car in the backstreets of Earlwood in Sydney’s south. On hearing the news, I …
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Smoking out good government
Democracy is a mad scientist, cackling away, laughing maniacally while the cathodes crackle and spark with animal electricity. The results can be confounding. Sometimes …
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Donald Trump wins, nothing will ever be the same again
Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States of America and nothing will ever be the same again. After more than 18 …
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Why were so many pedophile priests active in the Victorian diocese?
The first episode of Ballarat’s Children details a criminal conspiracy between Victoria Police and the Catholic Church in 1972. The prolific pedophile priest Monsignor …