The revealed referendum question has no detail at all, simply asking whether you approve of the Voice. This deficiency wouldn’t be nearly solved even by adding part of the words proposed to be inserted in the Constitution, which highlights the key strategy of Voice advocates -- give Australians the mushroom treatment. It's a tactic that may well work, but that doesn't make it any the less contemptible

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Run of the mill banking is pretty simple: take deposits at one rate of interest and lend at a higher one. But risk management is another matter and requires bright people. As the failure of Silicon Valley Bank demonstrates, it is not a job for terminally woke incompetents fixated on skin colour and the sexual preferences of clients and colleagues

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Will any real information on the disastrous policies of the day, be it it the Voice or climate agendas of state and federal governments, seep into the minds of most voters? A silly question to which the expected and duly delivered response is 'The planet is dying! We must do our bit to save it.' That’s the level of sophistication which swings elections

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Too much integration has passed under the bridge since 1788. You can’t retro fit treaties between people who are 100 percent white and those who, say, are 75 percent white and 25 percent indigenous, and who who occupy jobs in the city and in the suburbs. It’s self-evidently nonsensical

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The question is whether the Reserve Bank is focusing on the right variables – bank lending/monetary aggregates – or whether it remains besotted by the most recent CPI figure? If it’s the latter it is bound to get it wrong and raise interest rates too much, just as it got it wrong in reducing them too much

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Democracy's problem is that the skills required to climb the greasy pole of backroom party politics are not those required to hold executive positions in government. Thus do we get the comic conceits of Jim Chalmers' plan to remake capitalism and, far more dangerous, the looming green horrors Chris Bowen is so keen to inflict on one and all

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If Russia's tyrant didn't exist the renewables lobby and its mouthpiece politicians would have had to invent him. They're lying when they try to pin the blame for soaring gas and electricity costs on the war in Ukraine. Fact is -- and the numbers leave no doubt -- the hobbles so-called green energy has inflicted on the economy and household budgets are all their own work

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There is shame in Peter Dutton's request for those elusive Voice details as that implies he accepts dividing Australians by race as right and proper. What next if Yes gets up? Perhaps the further dicing and slicing of the population into identity groups limited only by imagination and the courts

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It would be good to live in an Australia in which race was inconsequential. But the Voice entirely removes that prospect, as the politics of race is at its very heart. This means questions which otherwise need not be asked must be raised and answered. Two of those questions, fundamental ones, are who qualifies as indigenous and who will the Voice represent?

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The Climate Council arose out of the ashes of the Climate Commission, which Tony Abbot sensibly disbanded in 2013 as a blight on sane debate. Crowd funding helped give Tim Flannery and fellow deacons in their Church of Doom an ongoing gig. But unlike old soldiers, old climateers refuse to do us a favour, stop fulminating and fade mercifully away

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