Having served as an open spigot for faux facts and denials of the Wuhan virus's origins, The Lancet has now given space to a vexxed article by Marcia Langton, Tom Calma and others that is as curious as it is misleading. Factor in a bristling Noel Pearson's chat with 3AW and a stepped-up unpleasantness if the 'Yes' case fails appears foregone

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When the Voice goes down and the Left howls in chorus about our 'international reputation in tatters', it might be handy to have US journalist Jason L. Riley's column bookmarked for sending to the sore losers in your circle. It will make the misery of their defeat and impotent fury all the sweeter to behold

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Unless Anthony Albanese, taking note of the rapidly declining support for the Voice, decides to cut his losses by postponing the referendum, Australians will soon be asked to authorise a pointedly unexplained addition to the Constitution that opens a host of possibilities, none of them good. That's one key reason to oppose the Voice. Here are many more

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Such is the Victorian Premier's suzerainity that even the most penetrating sunlight, supposedly the great disinfectant, draws no more than the public-stage equivalent of a 'get lost' shrug. Those hunched shoulders will be working overtime to dismiss the Special Investigator's report detailing why senior VicPol officers won't be answering in court for alleged criminal offences arising from the Lawyer X affair. The reason: the Office of Public Prosecution refused to act

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This week the ABC made an absolute pig's breakfast of a story, today following up by correcting the record. The initial story, wrong from top to bottom, asserted Florida had banned a kiddie book, Guess What? by Australian author Mem Fox. Well done, ABC. Now, in light of the just-released Durham refutation of the Russiagate hoax, Sarah Ferguson must be itching to address her own three-part compendium of errors

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The striking thing about ABC Managing Director David Anderson's most recent turn before Senate Estimates was the absence of any direct involvement in his own newsrooms, the least you might expect of a man billed as 'editor-in chief'. Without genuine editorial supervision, it is no wonder the national broadcaster's reporting is a reeking, biased, error-prone mess

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In November's edition of Quadrant, our Michael Connor forensically dismantled Henry Reynolds' claim that Jeremy Bentham believed the failure to strike a treaty between the first white arrivals and Aborigines was 'an incurable flaw', one that continues to cast a shadow over modern Australia. How sadly predictable that the spurious claim would be amplified yet again in the pages of the Nine rags

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In what seems to be a developing Radio National ritual, Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas began her listeners' day with a guest's critique of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price. Last week it was bully boy Noel Pearson, this week Marcia Langton rambling through three minutes of the strangest radio you'll likely hear until next week's Bash Jacinta segment

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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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