We need to keep a weather eye on Mr Albanese. Sure, he may be limited and incompetent, and in that respect differ little from many across the parliament. This may lead him to extremely silliness, such as his recent hailing of the ABC as a paragon of unbiased reporting. But there is also the possibility that he might have a particularly loose attachment to the truth

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Speaking personally and not being a voyeur, I make a point to ignore the sexual preferences and activity of others. Perhaps I should pay more attention because there's a question that baffles me: what does 'gay pride' actually mean? Pride in what exactly? I take no specific pride in being heterosexual, so I'm stumped why homosexuality should be a different kettle of fish

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The snake-oilers backing a Voice referendum can’t or won’t disclose what the precise question will be. Who will have a vote for a third chamber? Will genetic testing by required to determine who is an Aborigine? Will those of partial indigenous heritage get, say, half a vote or less? Questions, so many questions, and all begging for answers being steadfastly withheld

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A journalist-cum-commentator might have been moved to delve deeper into the widely hyped reports of a raped and pregnant 10-year-old being denied an abortion after the US Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v Wade. There are many open questions about the case, but none interested Sky import Piers Morgan, a showboat of very shallow draft indeed

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If Boris Johnson's party colleagues had resigned en masse to protest his mad embrace of net zero, that would be understandable, magnificent even. But to show him the door over the trivialities that are Partygate and Pinchergate is to make pretense an art form. The polls are the real reason he is going, as Gillard, Abbott and Turnbull might have warned him

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Contemplate what the midwives of Australia's green transformation admit will be needed to reach net zero -- the wind and solar farms, the giant batteries, networks of additional power pylons and much, much more besides. Now think of a single coal-power station needing no add-ons and delivering sufficient and reliable cheap power. Can’t say we haven’t been warned

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COVID stats, The Australian's editorial recently assured us, show a direct relationship between vaccinations and fewer deaths. Look a little closer and the official numbers are inadequate at best, misleading at worst. The problem, a glaring one for those who care to notice, is that a wealth of other factors are neither mentioned nor taken into account

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Snow is a thing of the past. 'Drowning' Pacific Islands. More widespread and intense droughts, floods, famines, bushfires, cyclones. Millions of climate refugees. Like so much of the state-sponsored COVID hysteria, not a word of it is true or ever likely to be, And yet that is what we are expected to swallow day after day after day

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You might not have noticed, but the hydrogen wars are just beginning as mendicant advocates for the rival blue, green and brown production methods jostle for taxpayer subsidies. They talk a good game about commercial potential but their pharaonic mega projects could never, ever pass muster in a sane world

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Women seem disproportionately more susceptible to warnings of impending doom and, consequently, to the latest scares propagated by climate-change cultists. When former home affairs minister Karen Andrews appeals for a greater understanding as to why women abandoned the Liberals, she is on the money, though not perhaps in the way she thinks

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