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The Australian acting and entertainment celebrity fraternity, practising and rehearsing their bestest outraged faces and voices, has demanded Tony Abbott DO SOMETHING about saving the lives of the Bali heroin smuggling ringleaders.

I'm going to cop a blast for this, but I struggle to find much sympathy for the Bali Nine ringleaders. First up, I'm opposed to...

I hate it when the alarm goes off at stupid o'clock on Anzac morning and I know I have to drag myself out of bed to go to the dawn service. At the same time I love the way that this small deprivation forces me to think of the sacrifices that were given to create this amazing society that we live in.

Having read all about a woman in Melbourne today with a terrible disease called Munchausen's Syndrome - which means she faked having cancer to...

Two lots of scumbags. Two different worlds. Same bottom line- they don't respect Australia and Australians. Picked up the paper today and read it on the pavement with my cheese toastie and cup of chino.

I am neither a Twitterer nor a Face Booker. Can't see the point. Don't have the time. Not really interested. Unlike the Kruddster who, having just rolled out his latest manifesto which he boldly calls "My Harvard Report", is flat out twittering about it on his Iphone. Or is that iPhone? No matter.

There are people who want us to:  close all coal mines and abandon reliable power stations while littering the landscape with unreliable wind turbines and...

The hardest thing about being a journalist for a local paper is that not much ever happens in a small town. If a cat gets stuck up a tree, you rush down to get the scoop. School fete? Of course you will be there.

Australia has never been an "overly" racist country... we have had a few racist townships but that began after the 1960s when the do-gooders wanted to do "the right thing" and allow the indigenous peoples access to the grog... and we all know how that went.

We should spend Earth Hour giving thanks for warmth. Just thirteen thousand years ago, Earth was in the grip of a deathly ice age. Sea...

You can say what you like but Australia is rooted folks. Completely rooted. There are some things that we cannot recover from and one of them is seven years of Labor follies and free-for-all spending. This time - unlike past times- they have simply gone too far. There's some stuff you just cannot recover from.

Saw a little of Q&A last night and, although I am not a fan of Australian country music, as much of it sounds just like American country music, I have nothing personal against Troy Cassar-Daley.

News just through that former Liberal PM Malcolm Fraser has died - a sad, confused man famed for engineering the downfall of the Whitlam government. Perhaps...

Climate alarmists claim incessantly that all bad weather is caused by man’s use of hydro-carbon fuels - oil, gas and coal. They insist that man-made...

Freshly elected Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk is already falling apart. It was inevitable.  When you claw to power telling porkie pies, with no plan, you're...

2015 is the make-or-break year for climate alarmism, with a crucial battle planned for Paris in November. So we can expect regular bursts of...

What great cause could unite Prince Charles, President Obama, the Pope, the Arab Oil sheiks, the United Nations, the European Union, the Russians, the Chinese, Pacific Island Nations, most undeveloped countries, the glitterati of Hollywood, left-wing politicians, unrepentant reds, government media, the climate research industry, Big Oil, Big Gas and the Green Blob. It must be something posing a clear and urgent danger to all humanity?

Most climate scientists accept that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has some warming effect on Earth’s climate, but un-disputed science shows that its direct...

Education has come a long way since I was at school. Now that everyone has a calculator on their smart phone, there is no need for children to spend time learning useless things like times tables. Kids are now free to learn much more useful things instead.

Horrific footage has emerged of "vicious attacks" at a halal slaughterhouse where animals had their throats hacked at with saws. Other footage shows sheep being kicked in the face by staff and a worker standing on the neck of a conscious animal.

Time and again the halal certification advocates throw up the export argument. Those of us who want a choice, or even refuse to buy...

2015 is the make-or-break year for climate alarmism, with a crucial battle planned for Paris in November. So we can expect regular bursts of...

After just a few weeks of Labor, Victoria has been plunged into crippling debt ! Not even Kevin and Julia managed that. It took them six years and a concerted effort to ruin us!

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are are both fools. Hollande for his statements: "The first victims of fanaticism and intolerance are Muslims,"...

The surest way to find an “endangered” species is to declare a major development site, and something “threatened” will soon turn up.  So it is...

The words “Terror Attack in Paris” caught my eye in the corner of my browser. With a now familiar sinking feeling, I clicked on...

Three centuries ago, the world ran on green power. Wood was used for heating and cooking, charcoal for smelting and smithing, wind or water-power...

More than 70 per cent of all chicken slaughtered in Australia is done according to Sharia Law. This means Islamic principles and rituals. Baiada/Steggles and Ingham have more than 70 per cent of the market share and there are other chicken companies like Red Lea who also halal certify their chickens.

I'm feeling a bit sorry for Prince Andrew and if I'm to be honest, being a baby boomer, I have enormous respect for the Queen but her dysfunctional brood is a product, not so much of the strictures of a Royal upbringing, but of the contemporary lifestyle.

Welcome to the Muslim Appropriation and Rectification Council of Australia. Or MACA, to make things easier. An organisation that has been established to support Muslims in their quest for a happy life in this country. An organisation to set out the rules in Australia - FOR Muslims. Break these rules and you guessed it - you're going to 'Maccas'! Which, as you will find out, is a bit different to Mecca!

In the 1930’s there was considerable confusion as to how to view the German National Socialists or “Nazis”. On the one hand, it was...

Are Climatists giving a green tick to diesel power? Ten thousand professional climate crusaders recently attended yet another Climate Carnival in Lima, Peru. Did they...

To drive a motor car you have to go through a training and capability process to gain a licence. To fly an airplane you have...

I do not, will not, cannot support, endorse, condone or encourage violence of any sort toward any human being. There are ideologies in this...

The most careful analysis of world sea levels suggests they are rising at between zero and 2mm per year. Measurements to this accuracy are...

Being a politician, especially an aspiring PM, requires both a sense of humour and a reasonably tough skin. You have to take the good with...

Wine is halal? Making up rules as they go along….I am sure you have heard by now that a Sydney Sheik by the name of Mostafa Rashed decided to glean...

One thing I'll say about the Rudd/Gillard 'Gumments', they provided extraordinary entertainment. As the country plunged deeper into the abyss and became an international comedy show, our gobs were smacked daily with each new revelation and bungled power plays. Sure they plunged us into the Mariana Trench of debt which most of us will never see erased, but they were so bad, they were comical. The Laurel and Hardy of the political set.

There is a lot of confusion about supermarket meat and whether or not it is halal certified. The thing is in a lot of cases the meat they source is in fact halal slaughtered and fees are paid. The supermarkets cannot label the meat as such though because the meat is then transported, stored or sold along with haram (forbidden) items such as pork.

I love a chunky meat pie. What's more indulgently, wickedly, deliciously Australian than a steaming hot pie smothered in sauce, and a squirt of...

I know some of you think I'm a bit of a 'Merchant Banker' but when it comes to people, I'm rarely wrong. This is what 60 odd years on this earth does for you. You finally get the wisdom.

"The naïveté of President Obama in his deal with China on carbon emission reductions is jaw dropping. He has been played the fool by...

In the past few weeks halal certification has been a hot topic. Social media campaigns are being blamed for backlashes and causing hardship to...

Today is Remembrance Day, an appropriate time to reflect on our ability to defend ourselves. History holds lessons. Back in Dec 1941, Japan suddenly attacked the huge US Naval base at Pearl Harbour.

(With thanks to my friend Bill Moroney for his help with the research material)  Nikolai Sennels is a Danish psychologist who has done extensive research...

Whatever your view on Gough, and mine is he would've made a better stand-up comic with his own TV show than PM, his wit in Australian politics was sharp, possibly unrivaled, challenged only by the likes of Fred Daly, Jim Killen and the affable John Button.

Since September 2001, thirteen years have passed, despite the fact that it seems just like yesterday. Since that fateful day on the 11th of September, the world has changed forever... and sadly it is reaching a stage where western democratic Governments are going to have to take firm action in regard to the mass violence being perpetrated in so many Islamic countries in the Middle East and North and Central Africa.

It would seem some halal certification agencies are getting a little nervous about the recent backlash towards unnecessary halal certification fees and the fact many Aussies are waking up to the rort.

For decades green extremists have been spreading doomsday forecasts of global warming. But where do we find the greatest abundance of life on land? Follow...

Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh has always struck me as one of those party nerds who try way too hard to please and to impress. The school wonk you always wanted to give an uppercut after he sat down from reciting word-for-word the first six volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The class dobber and teacher's pet desperate for approval, collecting all the little merit badges in his over reach for school prefect.