More than half a century after 1967's referendum, few these days can imagine that their grandparents actually felt strongly about the Aboriginal cause. Why, Gough Whitlam didn't even become Prime Minister until 1972! How could we have done anything half-decent before his visionary leadership woke us all up?

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Ex-premier Ted Baillieu, who knows a thing or two about political failure, is saying it will be at least eight years, and possibly twelve, before his Liberals can harbour any realistic hope of regaining power in Victoria. Well, yes, his and Mastthew Guy's species of Liberals, but what of a party that actually stands for something and is prepared to fight for it?

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When energy prices soar and blackouts ensue, as they will, forced rationing will become a fact of everyday life. Teals and well-to-do others will live in energy-secure communities, so worry not for their coiffured heads. Instead, fret at the accelerating slide into a world where the State and corporations make common cause

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Jack Kramer revolutionised the presentation and organisation of tennis, undermining the dominance of the old blimps of the amateur associations who for so many years had decided who played and who didn’t. That he was a marvellous player and a gentleman should nopt be forgotten either

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UNESCO selected – some might say weaponised – Delphi not only because it was the most sacred place in ancient Greece and birthplace of Gaia, mother of all. It was home also to the Oracle, hence an ideal location to promote the UN's prophecies of climate catastrophe

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The partnership seeks to deepen diplomatic, security, and defence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region by promoting deeper information- and technology-sharing as well as a deeper integration of security and defence-related science. For that shared vision to be realised much work is needed

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Time after time, Premier Palaszczuk has declared her faith that Commissioner Katarina Carroll is the right person to lead QPS into its brave new era of full-blown wokeness. This support is all the more remarkable for the findings of an inquiry that has found the state's top cop to be 'wilfully ignorant ... kept in the dark or ... deliberately obfuscating'

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As the Labor government contemplates interventions in the energy market of a damaging kind, it would be nice if facts took centre stage -- that cyclones have trended down since 1970-71 or that drought and monster floods are and have always been Australia's lot. What’s hard about conceding those facts? They undermine the narrative and that cannot be permitted

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Our nation, based upon British traditions and institutions, owes nothing whatsoever to indigenous tradition or heritage.  Yet it is being brown-washed with a superficial ochre-tinged veneer of wokeness and virtue signalling that hints and suggests we are essentially an Aboriginal nation

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Heard about one third of Pakistan being under water? Then you may have been listening to the ABC's version, which blithely passed on the news that it is all the fault of climate change. It isn't and, just by the way, floods never came anywhere near that reported coverage

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