How to pick a cancer faker
Another day, another cancer faker exposed. In July, in the Adelaide District Court, Kelly Val Smith pleaded guilty to four counts of deception and …
The simple fact overlooked in Serena Williams fallout
It’s a tricky move to attach gender or race motives to an umpire officiating a tennis match between two women: one Afro-American, the other …
Wentworth by-election the preface to electoral doom for the Coalition
There’s one thing we can predict about the upcoming vote in Wentworth — it will be a Chris Gayle by-election. That is, it’s going …
ABC News 24: when too much non-news is never enough
While we contemplate the tragedy that has befallen the once great party of Billy McMahon, let us also consider what’s on Bill Shorten’s to …
The global pandemic of clerical child sex abuse
A Pennsylvania grand jury has released its findings accusing 300 Catholic priests of sexually assaulting more than a thousand children over 70 years. The …
Taking a leaf out of the extremist handbook
This week the question has been firmly put. Should there be more Nazis on television or less, or for the grammar pedants out there, …
Super Saturday by-elections look second rate
Voters in five electorates will trudge to the ballot boxes this weekend. The media has decided to run with the puerile Americanism of Super …
Solidarity has its limits
There are never enough hours in the day. I could adopt some time management techniques, pick up a minute here, another there but in …
The real Trump derangement syndrome
Trump derangement syndrome was said to be a disorder found among those who see consistent fault in the words and deeds of the 45th …
Courts are too soft on child pornography
Today we learned the Australian Human Rights Commission has laid down its particular view of the law and came out again with a determination …