While whales might appreciate the ban on single-use grocery bags, supermarket chains have greater reason to rejoice. Not only will they shed the cost of catering to their customers' convenience, they can posture beneath a halo of conspicuous virtue. Alas, an unmentioned aspect of their gains is an increased risk of bacterial infections

Private media organisations must defer to consumers and advertisers, while politicians and bureaucracies answer to voters. Independent statutory agencies, such as the ABC, know no such masters. This opens the door to staff capture and, as the national broadcaster demonstrates, makes bias inevitable

Rising CO2 levels haven't produced the soaring temperatures warmists so confidently predicted, but not to worry. In their latest grant-snaffling gambit, catastropharian careerists are saying greenhouse gases produce 'extreme weather' even without the missing heat. Yes, really

The first episode of 4 Corners' globe-girdling 'investigation' of the purported Russia/Trump conspiracy didn't cover any fresh ground. What it did was omit a wealth of essential background information, allowing host Sarah Ferguson to gabble breathlessly about the 'story of the century' that isn't

Somehow, despite its $1.2 billion-a-year penury, the ABC sent Sarah Ferguson and crew on a globe-girdling jaunt to pursue Donald Trump's alleged 'collusion' with Moscow. That James Clapper is one of the national broadcaster's go-to informants suggests truth will be a scarce commodity

The ADF public relations flaks have been making merry with Brigadier Susan Coyle's appointment as the first female to command a brigade, which for some might conjure images of  a blood-and-guts fighting femme. Good luck to her, but do bear in mind that this isn't an old timer's idea of a brigade

As LP Hartley observed in the opening sentence of The Go-Between, 'the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' Indeed, they do and did, but as the ABC's latest Annabel Crabb production demonstrates, the national broadcaster will be forever the same -- until, that is, someone fixes it

Another woman is dead at the hands of an alleged rapist and, once again, those who should know better blame toxic masculinity and the way boys are raised. While this guff obscures the sins of a turn-'em-loose bench, it won't dissuade a single criminal. Pepper spray and electro-shockers just might

The architects and current beneficiaries of Australia's addled energy policies won't admit it, but the Paris climate accord is disintegrating. The US has bailed, Canada grows wobbly and Japan opens coal-fired plants. Meanwhile, our leaders remain resolute -- resolutely blind, that is

Overwhelmingly, in my view, only those whose self-esteem, character or, perhaps, intellectual capacity is well below par convert to Islam. It can’t be explained any other way. Human nature has its dark side and, for folks such these, Islam's dogma of innate superiority has a chilling appeal

Without impartial justice, the UK puts at risk a foundation of any free society. Indeed, official policy has already removed the chocks and encouraged that descent to gather pace. Regardless of Tommy Robinson's past, I am very worried by his imprisonment. So should we all

Conservatives express a view, a traditional view, and are accused of 'hate speech' , which means someone with a megaphone has taken offence. People lose incomes and careers, get bullied and are declared pariahs, so is it any wonder so many embrace plastic principles as their vocation

Yes, the headline above is an intemperate suggestion and need not be taken seriously, but given David Finnigan's attempt at humour, what's good for the grant-gobbling goose should work just as well for those who wonder how so much taxpayer money underwrites such a slight talent

The national broadcaster's boss this week fronted Melbourne's Press Club, where she meekly endured a hectoring by underling Jon Faine that can only confirm how far the ABC has moved beyond both shame and supervision. Then came our Tony Thomas with his ABC-approved filthy mouth...

To maintain our right not to be assaulted and perhaps killed we all, as individuals -- men and, yes, women -- must keep our wits about us. This is such a straightforward proposition it shouldn't need to be explained, least of all to the Premier of a state whose courts regularly turn monsters loose

ANU's rejection of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation has made it, in the words of one commentator, 'a laughingstock'. To that appraisal add a toxic and shameless hypocrisy which sees that university and others eagerly accept cash for 'Islamic centres' where Western ideals are actively opposed

Getting agitated over nothing and demanding others notice just how upset you are is one of our modern world's more peculiar fashion statements. Mostly it is as noisy as it is harmless -- until, that is, the person so afflicted attains a position where self-indulgent nonsense becomes official policy

The human race is going backwards, Trump being the last flicker of bright light before the candle goes out. Unless you share the cock-eyed optimism to which I am prone, it's a demographic certainty public policy can never shed the Leftist memes that shape it. Still, I live in hope. Make Australia great again!

Officially, Professor Peter Ridd was axed from James Cook University for allegedly mocking of its reputation as a home to serious scholars and research -- a handy way to avoid addressing his very specific charge that Reef scientists are playing fast and loose with facts