It is only when we will stop with all this performative politics that we will create space for accountability politics to take charge once again. Every beleaguered Australian deserves no less.

I have always wondered why the rage against Mrs Rinehart burns so bright – and the answer came to me while watching the athletes she supports to the tune of millions of dollars every year as they won race after race, gold after gold in Paris. The Left basically wants to be judged on its warm and fuzzy words, not the hard, measurable outcomes that underscore her philanthropy

Worth noting are the parallels between America and Australia. Like the Democrats, Labor was the party of the blue-collar worker, but today remains so in name only. In Trump, many Americans see a man prepared to defend their values and oppose the elites' wokeism that has inundated so many aspects of American life

Victorians today pay the highest fines, penalties and taxes while coping with rapidly eroding rights, potholed roads, underfunded hospitals and public services, housing crisis, record debt, and sky rocketing energy prices. It must be Labor's idea of Utopia. And for all this the man responsible gets a golden gong

The millionaire gadfly has always been gung-ho for renewables, which worked to his advantage when he objected to the ABC 'fact-checking' his criticism of the latest green silliness from the CSIRO. Smith's angry response prompted immediate corrections and an apology of which less high-profile victims of the national broadcaster's bias can only dream

Regardless of our home states, we should all be interested to know if senior public servants, who enjoyed immense and extraordinary powers during the pandemic, arrived at decisions with due care and professionalism. Queensland's Supreme Court has said that wasn't the case. Having endured especially severe restrictions and treatment, Victorians in particular are entitled to an explanation

As of February 7 all Victorians' medical records will be the property of the state government – to be shared, discussed, disclosed by strangers to strangers -- and all this without Victorians being able to exercise any control over their own information. We are assured there are no risks, that we should trust the system and blithely accept there will be no abuses. Given Labor's history of playing fast and loose with the truth, that assurance stretches credulity beyond breaking point