Players in the American women’s soccer team think they are entitled to be paid the same as players in the men’s team. Silly stuff. The pay of sportsmen and women is geared to how much revenue they bring in. Generally, women’s sporting teams bring in much less revenue than do the corresponding men’s teams. No…

Warning. This is the answer to a question about Tom Wills addressed to Chat GPT, an AI platform. Some of the details are wrong, see if you can pick them. I will fix this when time permits after a busy day. Tom Wills was born on August 19, 1835, in New South Wales, Australia. He…

This is a series of pieces in The Australian Spectator over the last few months. A picture is forming of gross negligence on the part of the meteorologists of the world, headed by the World Meteorological Organization. It was left to independent wind watchers in Australia to find the wind droughts that severely impact the…

Don’t tell me it was Scott Morisson. He was one of our most disappointing Liberal leaders. Admittedly he inherited a chalice that was poisoned by Malcolm Turnbull, but he was one of the gang of 57 (?) who assassinated Tony Abbott. Correction it was 55 and Morisson was not one of them. and he was…

Read an article earlier in the week about Queensland health executives dismissing a call for a review of its children’s hospital gender services. A paediatrician was reported as calling for an immediate moratorium on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Reportedly, a senior staff psychologist at the hospital has been stood down for…