Since a male journalist in 1906 coined the mocking title “suffragette”, (based on the word suffragist meaning those seeking the right to vote) the obstacles to fairness for the fairer […]
Read MoreIt’s not all doom & gloom
News of the newly mutant COVID virus makes for grim reading and one ought not lighten the seriousness of a mortal pandemic, but some benefits to our current situation deserve […]
Read MoreJust medicine
MP Craig Kelly has disagreed with the mainstream opinion about hydroxychloroquine and its place in the prophylactic treatment of COVID. (Call to rein-in anti-vax politician, 3/2). Simply put, unlike the […]
Read MoreThe wonders of digging up the past
Opining on what profession we might choose if we had our time over again, few could ignore the calling of forensic archaeology after reading my favorite story of the day […]
Read MoreCommunist plot thickens
Congratulations to Troy Lennon on his historical piece about the blind activist Fanya Kaplan shooting Lenin in 1918. (History: “Blind female anarchist executed for Lenin plot”, 30/8). On account of […]
Read MoreDon’t doubt our awe, lan
Great people with supernatural talents taking rollercoaster rides on the wheels of fortune are never to be trusted to objectively write their own stories. (lan Thorpe’s shock Olympic admission, 19/12). […]
Read MorePeople’s champion
The stories of comic book super heroes have been ridiculously exaggerated by the boundless imagination of Hollywood. While junior colony Melbourne had their own historic founder named “Batman”, Parramatta’s 19th […]
Read MoreWarnings from out of the past
In his column in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph, Tim Blair warns that children today would get a life lesson on the perils of communism if arch-socialist octogenarian Bernie Sanders was elected […]
Read MoreHouse built on back of big gamble
The promotion of the Everest racing event on the sails of the Opera House is being unreasonably criticised. Commercialisation of publicly owned iconic locations is considered tasteless by protesters. In […]
Read MoreOz Day pub ban on nose
As predictable as clockwork, do-gooder ideologues are woken from their morbid dole-grabbing activist existences to protest their flavour-of-the-month causes, now unfortunately targeting Australia Day. The woke nonsense about our great […]
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