This piece is dedicated to the good and caring folk at the Australian Family Association, because that little girl on Play School with her two mummies should know she doesn’t have a real family.
Troubled station Channel 35 has finally won over men aged 17-99 with its new drama series, […] Continue Reading…

IF you have been delayed by the inexcusable closure of all but one lane in Edward Street Brisbane you have my sympathy, for that is more than the Brisbane City Council, or Watpac, will give you.
When I read that the BCC was closing all but one lane of a […] Continue Reading…

It’s been a tough few months for the man The Sydney Morning Herald’s P P McGuiness astutely, and without overstatement, labelled “the most recent victim of the lynch mob mentality rife in Australian public debate”.
As I wait for Professor David Flint at Posh, the restaurant for mainstream Australians who […] Continue Reading…

There were 47 words in last Friday’s interview between Ryan MHR Michael Johnson and ABC Radio’s Steve Austin that have the potential to do the Howard Government much more damage than the Trish Draper affair.
They could mean that the Liberal Party organization will be forced to look at disciplining […] Continue Reading…

Recent academic polling suggests that voters would rather have increased services than tax cuts. Despite that both Liberal and Labor are offering tax cuts as well as increased services. What is happening? Are they catering for all opinions, or do they think that the polls are […] Continue Reading…

THE Honourable Peter Slipper holds the seat of Fisher by a margin of almost 12 per cent – if he continues to put out extravagant, self indulgent, taxpayer funded propaganda then he will need at least that margin to survive the wrath of his electors.
The Courier Mail’s “Confidential” column […] Continue Reading…

Today’s Sunday Mail carries a story , perhaps syndicated, perhaps from an overseas freelancer. It is called Code of Honour and it relates the story of Specialist Patrick Tilman who died on 22nd April, in Afghanistan.
The article is hagiographic, relating Tilman’s efforts to become a NFL footballer with the […] Continue Reading…

It was Wayne Goss who said before the 1996 election that Queenslanders were waiting on their front porches with baseball bats for an opportunity to bash the Keating government. In 2004 our qualitative research into how Australians feel about the latest federal budget suggest it is now John […] Continue Reading…

I’m told that our “cricket tragic” Prime Minister, undoubtedly with the Draper and Tollner incidents in mind, called tyro MHR Michael Johnson into his office to discuss the “Youth Leadership Forum” that Johnson recently held with special guest Ricky Ponting. It was a seminar with Ponting that students from […] Continue Reading…

Forget about Willie Mason’s ADHD (Absolute Dick Head Disorder), Australia faces a more serious disease that all sides of politics would do well to quarantine with some urgency.
We run the real risk of the “handout disease” dominating our political process, and undermining good public policy. We need to quarantine […] Continue Reading…