Opinion Dominion

I reckon the Australian media has run oddly cold on some of the more outrageous behaviour of the Abbott government. Sure, Fairfax, The Gua...

The sun won't die for 5 billion years, so why do humans have only 1 billion years left on Earth? Apparently, the sun will be hot enoug...

So, Abbott has dumped Philip Ruddock , and some Liberals are not impressed. Is anyone running a book on how long Abbott has got left?   I ...

The Guardian appears to have confirmed the "the government invited Gillian Triggs to resign" story, yet it appears no one from th...

The attack on Gillian Triggs by the Right, and the Murdoch press, is spectacularly ugly example of bullying and attempt at deflection, and i...

Andrew Bolt's post today seeking to blame Labor for "letting in" a couple of Muslim guys who have been arrested for (what is a...

I find the behaviour of this Prime Minister and his government to have moved on from appalling to sickening. Today's attack on Triggs ...

Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica photos: Meet the world's cutest animals : This will cause someone in my house, who is already somewhat fo...

Lowering the Age for HIV Prevention - The Atlantic I don't think I've ever posted about the issue of the use of Truvada, a drug th...

Down periscope: Abbott torpedoes himself | The Australian I'm sure Niki Savva's column this morning is being re-tweeted all over th...

Since Parliament resumed, it is spectacularly clear that Bronwyn Bishop as Speaker is damaging the  Abbott government - there simply has bee...

NRC geoengineering report: Climate hacking is dangerous and barking mad. Wow.  One of the most prominent climate scientists around,  Raymo...

*  The Abbott and Hockey interviews over the last 2 nights of 7.30 have both shown nothing has changed, and they are both incompetent slogan...

What an exercise in the disingenuous nature of the climate change "skeptics" and lukewarmists.   For the umpteenth time, Graham ...

I've had a brilliant idea:  instead of mandatory data retention, the government could just offer a free,  Samsung TV to all Muslim fami...

Asia Unbound  - Tony Abbott Has To Go Found this harsh but fair assessment on Abbott via the Lowy Institute  Interpreter blog. 

Kevin '17 and the race to be the next UN Secretary-General Some think Rudd is positioning himself to be a candidate for UN Secretary-Ge...

Why the government is a brake on the economy Peter Martin provides a detailed list of the obviously wrong claims Joe Hockey has made, and i...

My annual guilty pleasure of reality TV - My Kitchen Rules - has started again, but my daughter has started to resent my running deconstruct...

Alan Jones on Q Here's quite a funny review of Alan Jones' appearance on Q&A last night.  I liked these bits in particular (ab...