• “Put the arguments aside…”

    I appreciate that The Oz puts a range of views on its editorial page so that there is usually something for everyone, but I have to say that the superficiality and phenomenal ignorance of Ms Katrina Grace Kelly does try the nerves. It was her first four words that captured just how dull what she…

  • Our media is as pro-lockdown, pro-mandate as Justin Trudeau

    So Southern Ontario with its flat featureless terrain. But all these years later, it is still as familiar as home. Meanwhile, there has still been no mention of any of this in the local press, so far as I can see. Our own media is as pro-lockdown, pro-mandate as Justin Trudeau. And then there is…

  • Heads up for Flickerpower!

    Flickerpower is launched! This supersedes the temporary residence of the Energy Realists at RiteOn. The site is still a work in progress so don’t take any notice of the other material that is placeholding for proper content, the sharp edge is the list of Briefing Notes. There are more notes to come, and there will…

  • Guest Post: Rabz’ Radio Show 5 February 2022 – Ozzie Classics

    Let’s have some of your favourite Ozzie tunes, people. For starters, here’s a tribute to poor ol’ Wheaters  and the perfect Ozzie sunset tune

  • Cathollaxy #1

    Let me focus the thread just a little bit. Setting aside the off-the-cuff remark re ‘low hanging fruit’, the criticism of Pius XII’s Munificentissimus Deus seems to offer some focus. Firstly, there is the criticism that there is no biblical basis for the Assumption of Mary, and secondly, there is criticism of the exercise of the…

  • The Prime Minister’s mea culpa?

    What did we learn from Scott Morrison’s mea culpa and precis of his Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic at the National Press Club on Tuesday? While referring to the up-ending of lives and livelihoods and how exhausting ‘…financially, emotionally and psychologically’ the last two years have been for Australians. Primarily, the decisions made, he…

  • Guest Post: Speedbox – Love by Mail

    My recent post about Russia’s declining population led me off on a tangent where I found myself wondering what, if any, impact the ‘mail order’ bride phenomenon had on that decline. In fact, mail order brides are not new and date back to the 1600’s with Britain and France both using it to populate and…

  • Free speech is your only protection from a tyrannical government

    Let me come back to my articles on conservatism that was published in Quadrant at the end of last year. Here’s the conclusion at the end of the second article, Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid (Part II): These are the elements of conservatism as it needs to be understood if we are to defend…

  1. I think Griffith is a Menzies uni like Macquarie, LaTrobe, Flinders.Griffith was mooted by the QLD government as an extension…