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It’s not only history. The left has captured literature too
Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of…
‘We managed to toilet train cows’
“We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change,” a…
Covid: the New World Order
Something dangerous has happened to Australia. We have allowed the interests of ‘collective health’ to erase individual human rights. It…
Dead reef? What dead reef?
Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…
Jacinda Ardern – an agenda-driven autocrat?
It’s hard to keep up with our adroit Prime Minister who apparently doesn’t like answering questions, such as the one about where does…
Lorraine Finlay, conservative governments and appointments
I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as…
Bravo, Boris: England vetos vaccine passports
“I’ve never liked the idea of saying to people, ‘You must show your papers’ … to do what is just…
Yes, we have an inequality problem – between the public and private sectors
In an interview with the American socialist Jacobin Magazine this month, Greens leader Adam Bandt spoke about a growing inequality crisis. When…
Saving our forests and controlling our climate
I’m all for saving forests. Unlike the climate change enthusiasts, I learnt how to do it by working as a…
Doctor Deathwish comes to Queensland
“Lying always comes before killing”, as Solzhenitsyn observed of the Stalin regime. Under the Labor administration in Queensland, it comes…
Carping Keneally on road to political oblivion
Just months from a possible December federal election, the Labor Party is doing what it does so well – knifing…
Jeff Kennett is right: Daniel Andrews can be defeated
Springtime may be brightening up the lives of Victorians, but the stage light is dimming on Premier Dan Andrews. Something…
Dante Alighieri: a giant of the West and a man for our times
Tuesday marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet, politician and philosopher. Dante, or as…
Amen to Abbott
The Twitteratti have been in a tizz since Wednesday when a busybody got a shot of Tony Abbott, sans mask,…
Josh Frydenberg defends the indefensible with JobKeeper
How do you defend the indefensible? You give a politician a pen and some newspaper column centimetres. I tend not…
Why has Queensland Labor declared war on Catholic healthcare over euthanasia?
What contempt the Queensland Government must have for Christians that they have chosen the middle of a pandemic to pick…
High Court ruling means the end of social media
It’s not very often a news item pokes its head above the laughable parody of our national conversation. Get your…
Just the facts: Coronavirus in Australia by the numbers
Notes: The data below is generally current as at 7 September 2021 however there may be some minor discrepancies due…
Why should women tolerate the big swinging dicks of the transgender movement – Part II
The Attorney-General Michaelia Cash announced the appointment of a new Human Rights Commissioner, Lorraine Finlay, this week. I live in…
Climate warriors, heroes and idiots
Former Wallaby great David Pocock was interviewed on ABC Radio National by Fran Kelly last week. He was invited onto…
The EU is in serious decline
The European Union shows all the signs of worsening economic, social and political decline, with symptoms ranging from tepid economic growth and…
The global media calls out Australia’s repressive Covid order
For students of democracy and foreign policy, Australia has been experiencing interesting times in the last two years. All countries devote enormous effort and considerable resources to…
Zeros as heroes
Absolutism is stalking the land. Extreme policies are being proposed and justified as the only possible response considering the supposedly…
Our media is shrugging off its duty to hold governments and their agencies to account
The pandemic has revealed many cracks in our society, not least of all in our media. One reality that can…
Where do we stand after Afghanistan?
It is a strange and curious fact that moments of seismic historical significance are so often capable of being reduced…
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