The great semanticist and one-time Republican senator from California, Samuel I. Hayakawa once remarked that language is thought in action. In fact, he authored a book...
The conduct of monetary and fiscal policy since the pandemic began has no parallel in Australia’s economic history, certainly not compared to what happened during the more severe Spanish Flu a century ago. Back then in the dying stages of the laissez-faire… Click here...
If you didn’t already think so, the news that police have received thousands of calls from Aussies dobbing in other Aussies — let me rephrase that:...
The unacceptable violence at Melbourne’s ‘freedom’ rally, the quieter Sydney and Adelaide rallies and the New South Wales/Queensland border ‘invasion’ of this last weekend clearly demonstrate...
At a time when the world is going to hell and some perspective is desperately needed, thank God for the ABC’s Virginia Trioli for digging through...
On August 18, 1971 then prime minister William McMahon announced the final withdrawal of Australian combat troops from Vietnam. It was five years to the day...
According to the federal Department of Health website, yesterday there were 10,956 active cases of Covid-19 across Australia. Of these, 603 were hospitalised, and 107 in...
Will no one rid us of our Covid-dementors? Gladys Berejiklian says restrictions could remain in place after 80 per cent full vaccination. Yet after weeks and weeks of ever-tightening...
Poor John Hewson. After being booted from The SMAge for being pale, male and stale — as stale as the cake that lost him the 1993,...
Lets talk SARS covid-19 — coroanvirus. The political responses to Covid, while varying across the nation, consist of a general mask mandate with lockdowns and quarantine...