Category Archives: Quotidian

Andrew L. Urban The Straw Man Strategy is a well-known tool of deception (mostly but not exclusively political) akin to the archery cheat who sets up a fake bulls eye target, while the real target is hidden. It is currently … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban Most politicians failed Australia in 2025. You don’t have to be interested in politics to be interested in good governance. You have to wonder, then, how crackpots, incompetents and radicals, the least qualified people to make the … Continue reading →

By Andrew L. Urban   Inflamed by the notorious case of a Muslim woman falsely accusing a Sydney policeman of forcibly removing her face covering (June 7, 2011), the public bushfire over the banning or not of the burqa continues to … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban It would be in keeping with the record of the Sydney “Peace” prize if past recipients included Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and Mugabe. Perhaps even Hitler. And of course the late leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar. I … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban There on my TV screen was the WOAM (Woman Once A Man), standing tall on the winner’s podium. Two female athletes stood either side of the WOAM, having come second and third. Had either of them taken … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban Terence Stamp, the renowned British actor known for his roles in “Superman” and “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” has died at the age of 87. The news sent me back to my interview with … Continue reading →

Henry Ergas AO is a columnist for The Australian. From 1978 to 1993, Henry was an economist at the OECD in Paris, yet his weekly columns are rich with historical references. An erudite observer of the world, he challenges us … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban You don’t need me to tell you that we are still licking our wounds (almost daily) over disgraceful, anti-democratic Covid era responses from ham-fisted political leadership – I would have welcomed a citizens’ uprising. That might have … Continue reading →