With 2025 drawing to a close, there is a range of unexpectedly favourable news on the economy. read now...
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No politician is safe as the media's focus on parliamentary expenses entitlements intensifies, and the RBA will not cut rates in its final decision of the year. The post Wells
Helen Silver’s independent review into the Victorian Public Service was handed to the state government in June. Six months later, Jacinta Allan’s government has revealed what measures it will adopt to find $4 billion in savings, including scrapping eight agencies, the absorption (MOG) of seven entities into umbrella departments, and
The NSW and South Australian governments have made a court application to intervene in a matter challenging minimum age laws for social media platforms. Australia’s world-leading social media regulations for under-16s are set to come into force later this week. The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024
_Homo floresiensis_ skull. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAAbout 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more than a million years living on the isolated volcanic island of Flores,
Community sporting clubs are embracing a new era of locally owned, high-quality team apparel, with FE Custom leading the charge. Known for its commitment to custom jerseys, the brand has quickly become a favourite among grassroots teams seeking style, performance, and reliability. read now...
View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon
There are two glaring lessons for politicians from the Anika Wells’ entitlements affair. First, don’t grab greedily at every generous entitlement MPs and especially ministers can get, even if “the rules” allow you to do so. Second, if you do get into trouble, show some humility and apologise
The Greens have suffered a year of significant setbacks. The election saw their numbers go backwards, losing three of their four lower house seats, then one of their senators, Dorinda Cox, defected to Labor. But the year ended on a positive note, with the Greens doing the deal with the
Conversion practices are in the news again, at least if you listen to the BBC. We woke up to the Today programme on Friday recounting appalling stories of Electric Shock Aversion Therapy (ESAT) from years past. Further instalments were delivered on the corporation’s Six O’Clock News.
Gay and lesbian people were subjected to those horrors in a futile ...
When the taps run dry in Tunbridge Wells you know something has gone very wrong in the heart of Albion. Some 24,000 residents had their water supply cut off for almost a week after South East Water found that water at the local treatment plant was contaminated with chemicals. Schools closed, businesses lost money and, although supplies have resumed, ...
A late contender for the biggest media deal of the year has come through, with Netflix buying Warner Brothers Discovery. We break down the numbers. The post Paint by
The BBC has unveiled its compulsory training course for all staff on how not to be racist to Jews. I completed the online module and found it laughable, feeble, and entirely beside the point.
This isn’t education. It’s parody. A cartoonish exercise in HR-driven pseudo-virtue, dressed up as moral instruction. I have written before that if one were ...
With 2025 drawing to a close, there is a range of unexpectedly favourable news on the economy. read now...
No politician is safe as the media's focus on parliamentary expenses entitlements intensifies, and the RBA will not cut rates in its final decision of the year. The post Wells
Helen Silver’s independent review into the Victorian Public Service was handed to the state government in June. Six months later, Jacinta Allan’s government has revealed what measures it will adopt to find $4 billion in savings, including scrapping eight agencies, the absorption (MOG) of seven entities into umbrella departments, and
The NSW and South Australian governments have made a court application to intervene in a matter challenging minimum age laws for social media platforms. Australia’s world-leading social media regulations for under-16s are set to come into force later this week. The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024
_Homo floresiensis_ skull. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAAbout 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit” thanks to its small stature). The cause of its disappearance, after more than a million years living on the isolated volcanic island of Flores,
Community sporting clubs are embracing a new era of locally owned, high-quality team apparel, with FE Custom leading the charge. Known for its commitment to custom jerseys, the brand has quickly become a favourite among grassroots teams seeking style, performance, and reliability. read now...
View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon
There are two glaring lessons for politicians from the Anika Wells’ entitlements affair. First, don’t grab greedily at every generous entitlement MPs and especially ministers can get, even if “the rules” allow you to do so. Second, if you do get into trouble, show some humility and apologise
The Greens have suffered a year of significant setbacks. The election saw their numbers go backwards, losing three of their four lower house seats, then one of their senators, Dorinda Cox, defected to Labor. But the year ended on a positive note, with the Greens doing the deal with the
Conversion practices are in the news again, at least if you listen to the BBC. We woke up to the Today programme on Friday recounting appalling stories of Electric Shock Aversion Therapy (ESAT) from years past. Further instalments were delivered on the corporation’s Six O’Clock News.
Gay and lesbian people were subjected to those horrors in a futile ...
When the taps run dry in Tunbridge Wells you know something has gone very wrong in the heart of Albion. Some 24,000 residents had their water supply cut off for almost a week after South East Water found that water at the local treatment plant was contaminated with chemicals. Schools closed, businesses lost money and, although supplies have resumed, ...
A late contender for the biggest media deal of the year has come through, with Netflix buying Warner Brothers Discovery. We break down the numbers. The post Paint by
The BBC has unveiled its compulsory training course for all staff on how not to be racist to Jews. I completed the online module and found it laughable, feeble, and entirely beside the point.
This isn’t education. It’s parody. A cartoonish exercise in HR-driven pseudo-virtue, dressed up as moral instruction. I have written before that if one were ...