The problem with boys, if you put credence in feminist thought and the teachers it influences, is that they are not girls. It's a perspective recently aired on Twitter by a US professor of journalism, who fears XY chromosomes make young lads natural alt.right recruits. The professor was soon taken memorably to task

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Pity the Garden State's conservatives, who no longer have any mainstream party at the state level in which to invest their votes and confidence. What about state Opposition Leader Matthew Guy's Liberals, you might ask? Well the gale of denunciations directed these past few days at a fellow Liberal who opposes legal abortions is Exhibit A of many more

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The doctor on the radio was lambasting ivermectin as being of no use against COVID-19, so I called in to ask why India witnessed a precipitous decline in infections after the drug's widespread distribution? The station that bills itself as the place 'where you can talk and share what matters most' cut me off in seven seconds flat

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It was undeserved, given that Victoria's incompetence in dealing with COVID has been wrapped from the start in a caul of lies, but Treasurer Josh Frydenberg nevertheless has come to the party with yet more aid to take the pressure off the incompetents ruining Victoria. The pity is that he didn't ask some very pointed questions before doling out the latest aid

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The charitable view would be that the ABC zapped a Facebook post on Nicole Flint's speech about the sexist harassment she has endured because scores of commenters took it as an opportunity to give the retiring Member for Boothby more of the same. Or did it vanish because the thread opened a revealing window on the sentiments and nature of its core supporters?

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If he is lucky, Christian Porter will limp away, secure for the moment in his job but with the reek of suspicion and smear destined to dog him ever after. Come the next Cabinet shuffle, he'll be damaged goods fit only to be shunted sideways or out. Of course, if he has the spine, he might choose to give as good as he gets

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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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