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Gold stars for more red tape

by Kevin Donnelly

December 8, 2012

At a time when other Western education systems are granting greater autonomy to local schools, the Gillard government is tugging on purse strings to assert Canberra's dominance and control

Fool's gold on Rue de la Folie Regnault

by Tony Thomas

December 7, 2012

This a true story, perhaps soon to be a major movie starring Penelope Cruz as the tormented Margaret, legally yoked to the brutish and unscrupulous Tony Thomas (Russell Crowe and Eric Bana are vying for the role)

How Economies Really Work

by Steve Kates

December 6, 2012

Pardon my puffed-out chest, but a short, simple and utterly brilliant video inspired by one of my books is giving Keynes a thorough and much-deserved thumping

Bob Carr, blind to all but the main chance

by Philippa Martyr

December 4, 2012

Of the attributes that recommend the Foreign Minister as a potential replacement for our increasingly manic Prime Minister, Labor's powerbrokers must rate his demonstrated inability to notice corruption as the most endearing trait of all

She’s messing with our heads

by Peter Smith

December 3, 2012

The Prime Minister swears there are no "substantiated allegations" about her time as a labour lawyer and legal counsel to boyfriend and scam artist Bruce Wilson. That she will not deny those charges boggles the mind

Call Me Madam

by Christopher Akehurst

December 3, 2012

Burchett Hill's linguistic liberation of patriarchial pronouns has not gone quite as smoothly as its civic fathers, er, parent persons hoped. The wind turbine on the municipal minaret is encountering similar problems

The ABC's indecent advantage

by Malcolm Colless

November 30, 2012

While commercial publishers and broadcasters face the prospect of steroidal scrutiny by a beefed-up press watchdog, the ABC insists -- and with a straight face, no less -- that it can be trusted to police its own affairs and editorial standards

The Prosecutor's Case

November 30, 2012

"...let me explain to you the basis upon which, or the principal basis upon which, the Opposition says Julia Gillard broke the law" -- Senator George Brandis

Poirot and the Forgetful Fishwife

by Peter Smith

November 29, 2012

The master sleuth minds his manners as a shrieking suspect forgets herself -- and a good many other things as well

Parsing the Prime Minister -- Part II

by Alan RM Jones

November 28, 2012

Julia Gillard has spent the week ducking, weaving, disembling and presenting herself as the very picture of  outraged probity. It is an image that tarnishes under the light of scrutiny 

Gillard's less-than-shining knight

by Philippa Martyr

November 27, 2012

Out into the public eye comes our Prime Minister's light-fingered former lover, full of assurances that she never strayed from the straight and narrow. About cash deposits, he's not so sure

Parsing the Prime Minister

by Alan RM Jones

November 27, 2012

Emerging in fits and starts, most often from thickets of lawyerly split hairs, Prime Minister Gillard's defence of her honesty and integrity has so far failed to satisfy. Examine her words then and now, and the question of credibility looms large

Parsing the PM -- Parts I & II

by Alan RM Jones

November 27, 2012

Links to Quadrant Online's forensic examination of Julia Gillard's latest attempt to make the Wilson-AWU scandal go away

Family violence is more than a gender issue

by Terry Barnes

November 26, 2012

No one disputes violence against women is a curse on its victims and all society, but the emphasis on one gender's suffering diminishes the greater evil, violence itself

Wither my free speech?

by Philippa Martyr

November 24, 2012

Giving offence is poised to become grounds for prosecution. The last big push to curtail free speech is begun -- and there is no need to wonder about the likely targets

Their ABC

by Roger Franklin

November 24, 2012

There is no shortage of evidence to support the argument that the ABC needs to be reformed. Over two successive days, ABC Radio 774's Jon Faine made the case to perfection

Misogyny crosses the floor

by Peter Smith

November 21, 2012

The plague bacillus of Tony Abbott's sexism is so virulent, even otherwise sound male members of the Gillard cabinet are displaying signs of advanced infection. This time, unlike other matters, our Prime Minister cannot deny the evidence with a shrug

...to each according to his vote

by Steve Kates

November 17, 2012

From the fluffy billows of their cloud in an afterlife's workers' paradise, Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky gaze down with approval upon the White House and grin from ear to ear

Reality's tide engulfs the left's largesse

by Peter Smith

November 17, 2012

Where next for governments and the "free stuff" they dispense when no pockets of wealth remain to be picked? Back to the realm of budgetary sanity -- a journey now begun to the accompaniment of  riots, domestic fury and fierce civil strife

Our obligation to demand the truth

by Ron Pike

November 15, 2012

The government debts now humbling Europe, casting a cloud over America's future and being felt increasingly in Australia are worrying enough in themselves, but it is the spin and lies used to justify them that are the more immediate threat to prosperity and liberty