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Don’t accept sanitised history of clerical abuse
I have written on numerous occasions that I despaired Pell’s trial would become a circus that overwhelmed everything around it and everything that had …
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Hazzards of entertaining the masses, one presser at a time
Pity the lot of our public administrators in these difficult times. Governments are imperfect organs and they will make mistakes. Not, it must be …
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Coronavirus: We’re in need of objective facts, not ideology
It’s no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic is rattling a few brains. Pity the economic commentators who have spent the last twenty years divining …
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How to survive lockdown as COVID-19 cabin fever hits
The media dances between adjectives. Depending on who is doing the scribbling for the autocue, we live in unusual, unprecedented, extraordinary, unique or challenging …
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A bad day for con artists
Yesterday was a bad day for grifters, conmen and bullshit artists. As they traipsed into court across two states, we ticked them off in …
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New Senate may provide cleaner, smoother parliament
The numbers are in. Well, almost. The AEC has declared the Senate results for Victoria and there are no shocks or surprises left. The composition of …
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No leaping for joy until you leave
Yesterday I walked out the doors of the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead with a clean bill of health. The CT scan I …
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Uber ‘vision’ a mass of hot air
The future is upon us apparently. Excitingly, it is a future Australia or a bit of it will be part of unlike the interminable …
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Albo’s listening tour … not coming to a theatre near you
Spare a thought for the Labor Party. Or don’t. See if I care. This week, while the realisation dawned on Australians that we live …
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Stench of statism rises in Australia
There is a terrible stench rising in this country and it took solid, fetid form yesterday. In Canberra, News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst had …