I fled the living room on July 1 when new Governor-General Samantha Mostyn delivered a genuinely harrowing swearing-in speech. “These testing times call for an unstinting focus on kindness, on care and on respect,” our national Political Compassion Lady said. Kindness! Care! Respect! Even a few nearby bees, resting on the window sill between pollen excursions, immediately sprinted skywards.

Cameron happens to be an Australian comedian, which means his relationship with the sound of laughter is possibly a little strained. As is widely known, our local comic sources some years ago replaced jokes with studiously inoffensive tribal recognition indicators (sourdough bread is a constant) and various manifestations of woke.

Labor’s confusion over the status of women make you wonder why they were all so keen on legalising same-sex marriage. What was the point when barely any of them know the difference? From the Left’s point of view, every marriage is potentially same-sex. It just depends on how wedded to their own biology the couple may be

If you want a deliriously bent answer from a modern leftist—or from a bureaucrat under leftist command—just ask a straight question.

Nobody who identifies as a survivalist or prepper is ever likely to be invited to an Australian writers’ festival or any other gathering of the ideologically pure. Unless, of course, they’re the sort of cashed-up, grant-fuelled preppers who anticipate the destruction of our planet by climate change

Rocking up to the rechargers is when the torture begins for our EV-driving friends. Are the machines working? Is there a line? Can I download the proper app? Are all these other users slowing my charge? And most distressing of all, why won’t the people in that ancient V8 Commodore stop laughing at me?

You don’t end up in Argentina’s shattered situation due to isolated and random events. You get there incrementally, one tax, one rule and one regulation, one woke judge's juling at a time. How to claw your back? New President Javier Milei has some ideas involving chainsaws and public servants that might just be do the trick here

'Lithium-ion batteries are the critical pillar in a fossil fuel-free economy,' says the UN. The New York Fire Department sees them in a different light -- that of sudden and lethal home-consuming infernos. 'So far this year, ' Gotham's hook-and-ladder men report, '18 people have been killed by fires caused by lithium-ion batteries'. What, one wonders, are the carbon emissions of a smouldering corpse?

In one of Australia’s greatest but typical electoral misreadings, Marcia Langton threatened a ban on welcome-to-country ceremonies -- and, just to sweeten the deal, a ban on her own conference appearances. At that moment, it is reasonable to suspect, the No vote against the Voice increased exponentially in all states and territories