Allowing that Nero sets aside his fiddle and actually convenes the party room meeting which decency should have obliged him to call on Thursday, Liberals will have a new leader and Australia its latest prime minister. The choice is clear: we get a conservative -- or , sooner or later, a new party

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Visit Colesworths and you'll be denied a plastic bag, which is good for the chains' bottom lines and, allegedly, the health of our long-suffering planet. The move was driven in large part by NGOs' propaganda, a grossly misleading example of which has just been broadcast all over the world

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The rabble who harassed those wishing to hear Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux weren't there to attack an event as such. They were there to attack and violate the rights of those attending the event. Victoria's disgrace of a police minister professes not to see the difference

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There are stories -- and then there are ABC's versions of events as presented on its News website. In just one single day, July 16, this is the spin and perspective the national broadcaster inflicted on reports from Bangla Desh to Canberra, with stops at the Helpmann Awards and Gaza along the way

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ABC Chairman Justin Milne took up his position only a few months ago, an ascension he celebrated by assuring one and all that bias is not to be found at the national broadcaster. It was a theme he repeated this week, but his claims do not withstand even the most perfunctory fact-check

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While whales might appreciate the ban on single-use grocery bags, supermarket chains have greater reason to rejoice. Not only will they shed the cost of catering to their customers' convenience, they can posture beneath a halo of conspicuous virtue. Alas, an unmentioned aspect of their gains is an increased risk of bacterial infections

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The first episode of 4 Corners' globe-girdling 'investigation' of the purported Russia/Trump conspiracy didn't cover any fresh ground. What it did was omit a wealth of essential background information, allowing host Sarah Ferguson to gabble breathlessly about the 'story of the century' that isn't

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Somehow, despite its $1.2 billion-a-year penury, the ABC sent Sarah Ferguson and crew on a globe-girdling jaunt to pursue Donald Trump's alleged 'collusion' with Moscow. That James Clapper is one of the national broadcaster's go-to informants suggests truth will be a scarce commodity

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As might have been expected, Paul Ramsay's generous bequest to establish the Centre for Western Civilisation is under attack. It seems universities need money and lots of it, but coffers overseen by cultural conservatives are beyond the pale. Why, they might be "racists"!

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Unwittingly, the latest Gonski plea for yet more support -- read "money" --  for Australian education's jargon-infested pedagogic hierarchy of bureaucrats and excuse-makers illustrates the reason why Johnny and his mates can't read. Teachers were a lot smarter in 1911

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