Of all the weirdness COVID-19 has inflicted on Australia, perhaps the most bizarre example of the virus' impact on the bureaucratic mind emerged this week from the Therapeutic Goods Administration -- a 'cease and desist order' directed at a group of physicians who desire the freedom, now denied them, to prescribe hydroxychloroquine

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There is some truth to the ABC's claim that it is the 'most trusted' news source in the nation. Trusted, that is, by viewers who share the national broadcaster's port-canted perspective on, well, everything. And trusted to remain true to form by those who long ago concluded bias is its the stock in trade. On Twitter, '4Corners' executive producer Sally Neighbour validates that latter view rather neatly

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One theory about the Andrews government is that it is brazenly corrupt. A better one sees an imbeciles' collective, as might be gathered from the Health Minister's contempt for parliamentary convention and inane late-night tweeting. In other jurisdictions the buck stops at the top. In Andrewstan accountability doesn't even get out of the starting gate

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Could those final, locked-down months have been made less of a burden, reduced their erosive impact on a vulnerable mind? It seems to me they could. How hard would it have been for Andrews & Co., to have spared some thought and planning to sustain the belief in elderly, isolated Victorians that their lives were still worth living?

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If Dark Emu's claims of Aboriginal settlements and agriculture were true, one could expect archeological expeditions to have turned up evidence of pottery. The National Museum of Australia, proud of its 'working relationship' with Pascoe, tells one of his presumed supporters it has such relics. To another, it says it doesn't have a shard

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In a 2011 letter to the Koori Times, the 'Dark Emu' author wrote of his concern that entrants in the David Unaipon literary awards included 'people without an Aboriginal heritage.' Pascoe, whose genealogical record shows no trace of an Aboriginal ancestor, was one of the competition's judges

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Today at Flemington, killjoys will be protesting the 'cruelty' of horse racing, because that is what the modern Left's neo-wowsers do: seek to control and impose their will on the passions, pleasures and traditions of others. Ignore them if you're attending. Revel instead in 158 years of Melbourne at its idiosyncratic best

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When the New Statesman summoned up a tumbril for Sir Roger Scruton, having accused him of multiple varieties of hateful intolerance, it seemed yet another scalp had joined the Left's ever-growing collection, all picked off one by one to the cheers of social media's lynch mob. This time, though, the assassination hasn't gone to plan

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Another day, another example of the national broadcaster's monocular perspective. This time it involves an apparent 'race hate' hoax in Chicago and, tellingly, a blind refusal to publish any reports that might diminish the impression crosses are burning in the dark night of Trump's America

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Ten years ago today Victoria burned, an entire town was wiped off the map and 173 people perished. The subsequent Royal Commission established the disaster was the sum of a multitude of sins --not least inadequate fuel reduction that turned the state into a pyre awaiting only a spark. Here is the story of how five men and their esky survived that terrible afternoon

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