A top Australian engineer has warned the country’s power grid is unstable and incapable of coping with surging demand – and has proposed a controversial solution. Adi Paterson is the former chief of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese demanding urgentContinue Reading
Death, taxes, and Year 12 students complaining about the first English paper of the HSC exams. New South Wales high school graduates began two-and-a-half weeks of final exams on Wednesday with the first of two dreaded, mandatory English papers. Like clockwork, once the first paper was finished, students took toContinue Reading
A Melbourne-based writer is copping significant backlash after complaining that men can no longer compliment women on their appearance without being seen as creepy. According to Christopher Bantick, the fact a woman may not appreciate a complete stranger approaching them and commenting on their appearance is a travesty. In fact,Continue Reading
Before I owned a staffy, I would be the person who would immediately cross the street when walking toward one or another bully breed. Now, I’m a fierce advocate for them and want to squash the stereotype that there are ‘aggressive dogs’. I was disappointed to read Caleb Bond’s pieceContinue Reading
A fiery clash has erupted between two hosts on live TV after a male presenter ambushed his female colleague over a tweet she posted supporting Russell Brand as a “hero” in the face of sexual abuse allegations against the comedian. Andrew Pierce, a presenter on UK channel GB News, confrontedContinue Reading
Australians are waging a “war on oldies” but the growing resentment towards the nation’s baby boomers is misplaced, one commentor has said. In an opinion piece for The Daily Telegraph, former political reporter David Jones said younger Australians had drawn “battle lines” against baby boomers, making them “feel they’re aContinue Reading
Sky News host Peta Credlin has taken an extraordinary swipe at fellow host Chris Kenny over his stance on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, labelling her colleague “anything but a conservative”. Credlin took aim at Kenny — one of the only Sky News hosts to argue in favour of theContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese is holding firm on his threat to pull the double-dissolution trigger should his signature housing policy fail to secure support but says he’d rather not use it. Labor will this week reintroduce the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) when parliament returns after a bitter stalemate with the GreensContinue Reading
Journalist and political commentator Peter van Onselen has received a blow in court over the civil case brought by his former employer, Network Ten. Ten brought urgent proceedings against its ex-political editor to the NSW Supreme Court last month, seeking a declaration Dr van Onselen had breached a non-disparagement clauseContinue Reading
Australians have slammed the national broadcaster for airing a Four Corners story which investigated gender distress in children, with some arguing it simply didn’t get the balance right. On Monday night’s episode, Blocked aired with its aim to “break open the feud over transgender youth healthcare”, through the words ofContinue Reading