The Farrer by-election is more interesting than we first thought. Triggered by the resignation of former Liberal Leader, Sussan Ley, the regional area is stuck in a broadly conservative race (with Labor abstaining) between the Nationals, Liberals, One Nation, and a Climate 200-backed independent. No, we are not going to bother talking about the ...
President Trump said on Saturday that the United States is seeking an international naval coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In a message posted on Truth Social, he said ‘many countries’ affected by Iran’s attempted blockade, including China, France, Japan, South Korea and Britain, should deploy warships alongside the U.S. Navy to secure the ...
With world attention focused on the US-Israel assault on Iran, US Secretary of War Peter Hegseth delivered a speech last week at the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference in Florida. Hosted in a part of Miami that shares its name with an addictive benzodiazepine (Doral), the event on 5 March brought together 17 ‘American’ countries who were ...
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
As the war enters its third week, the scale is staggering: at least 1,348 Iranian civilians killed and over 17,000 injured, 3.2 million displaced, approximately 6,000 US strikes, and a new supreme leader – Mojtaba Khamenei – vowing to keep the Strait of Hormuz ...
It is impossible to imagine the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) functioning without its female soldiers. In the last week alone, over 30 Israeli female combat pilots and navigators participated in long-range strikes on Iran. Since 2023, hundreds of women have crossed enemy lines and fought in hostile territory; among them medics who have rescued people ...
This week, Rene Redzepi – often credited as having created the world’s greatest restaurant – stepped down amid explosive allegations of abuse. In my view, if the allegations of physical brutality are true, he should face criminal charges.
Redzepi, founder and proprietor of Noma in Copenhagen, founded in 2003, wrote on Instagram about the recent ...
Being of menopausal age, I obey instructions and regularly lift weights (menopausal women are meant to lift heavy stuff and jump a lot to protect our bones, our sanity and revitalise our fast twitch fibres). I love it. Using the squat rack and watching men walk past thinking, “What’s this old bird doing there?” makes me feel powerful.
My gym has a ...
The resignation of Dennis Richardson from the Bondi Beach Royal Commission should, in my opinion, ring alarm bells across the country.
When the most experienced national security figure in the room expressed a sentiment that he felt surplus to requirements, Australians are entitled to ask a simple question:
Are the wheels already coming off this Royal ...
A new narrative began at the start of the year, pushed by senior government figures including the Prime Minister, linking the populist right, especially Reform UK, to ‘vaccine scepticism’. Starmer’s remarks followed an outbreak of measles at the start of the year, described as a ‘surge’.
It was a striking intervention by Starmer. Public health scares ...
Like millions of others throughout the world, I have been quietly stocking up on essential day-to-day items for years, perfecting a system that could theoretically enable me to last a year or more during the inevitable hyper-inflationary or shortage-ridden phase I have long expected. I remember drafting the broad outlines of a strategic stockpile ...
The late John Landy, agricultural scientist and Governor of Victoria, was also considered to have performed Australia's most admirable sporting moment of the 20th Century. read now...
Two protesters were arrested in Magan-djin-Brisbane on 11 March 2026, for the completely absurd crime of publicly using the just prohibited slogan, “from the river to the sea”. A 33-year-old male is now facing 2 years in prison for using and defining the phrase, during a rally opposing the new law, whilst an 18-year-old woman wearing a shirt emblazoned ...
The Farrer by-election is more interesting than we first thought. Triggered by the resignation of former Liberal Leader, Sussan Ley, the regional area is stuck in a broadly conservative race (with Labor abstaining) between the Nationals, Liberals, One Nation, and a Climate 200-backed independent. No, we are not going to bother talking about the ...
President Trump said on Saturday that the United States is seeking an international naval coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In a message posted on Truth Social, he said ‘many countries’ affected by Iran’s attempted blockade, including China, France, Japan, South Korea and Britain, should deploy warships alongside the U.S. Navy to secure the ...
With world attention focused on the US-Israel assault on Iran, US Secretary of War Peter Hegseth delivered a speech last week at the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference in Florida. Hosted in a part of Miami that shares its name with an addictive benzodiazepine (Doral), the event on 5 March brought together 17 ‘American’ countries who were ...
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran.
As the war enters its third week, the scale is staggering: at least 1,348 Iranian civilians killed and over 17,000 injured, 3.2 million displaced, approximately 6,000 US strikes, and a new supreme leader – Mojtaba Khamenei – vowing to keep the Strait of Hormuz ...
It is impossible to imagine the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) functioning without its female soldiers. In the last week alone, over 30 Israeli female combat pilots and navigators participated in long-range strikes on Iran. Since 2023, hundreds of women have crossed enemy lines and fought in hostile territory; among them medics who have rescued people ...
This week, Rene Redzepi – often credited as having created the world’s greatest restaurant – stepped down amid explosive allegations of abuse. In my view, if the allegations of physical brutality are true, he should face criminal charges.
Redzepi, founder and proprietor of Noma in Copenhagen, founded in 2003, wrote on Instagram about the recent ...
Being of menopausal age, I obey instructions and regularly lift weights (menopausal women are meant to lift heavy stuff and jump a lot to protect our bones, our sanity and revitalise our fast twitch fibres). I love it. Using the squat rack and watching men walk past thinking, “What’s this old bird doing there?” makes me feel powerful.
My gym has a ...
The resignation of Dennis Richardson from the Bondi Beach Royal Commission should, in my opinion, ring alarm bells across the country.
When the most experienced national security figure in the room expressed a sentiment that he felt surplus to requirements, Australians are entitled to ask a simple question:
Are the wheels already coming off this Royal ...
A new narrative began at the start of the year, pushed by senior government figures including the Prime Minister, linking the populist right, especially Reform UK, to ‘vaccine scepticism’. Starmer’s remarks followed an outbreak of measles at the start of the year, described as a ‘surge’.
It was a striking intervention by Starmer. Public health scares ...
Like millions of others throughout the world, I have been quietly stocking up on essential day-to-day items for years, perfecting a system that could theoretically enable me to last a year or more during the inevitable hyper-inflationary or shortage-ridden phase I have long expected. I remember drafting the broad outlines of a strategic stockpile ...
The late John Landy, agricultural scientist and Governor of Victoria, was also considered to have performed Australia's most admirable sporting moment of the 20th Century. read now...
Two protesters were arrested in Magan-djin-Brisbane on 11 March 2026, for the completely absurd crime of publicly using the just prohibited slogan, “from the river to the sea”. A 33-year-old male is now facing 2 years in prison for using and defining the phrase, during a rally opposing the new law, whilst an 18-year-old woman wearing a shirt emblazoned ...
