Can Canberra be held accountable internationally for human rights abuses from state lockdown laws?
The Western Australia Premier has recently ordered 75 per cent of WA’s workforce to get vaccinated or face job losses or a…
Vaccine passport restrictions are constitutionally invalid. Here’s why
Australian governments are now starting to impose vaccination orders as the way out of lockdowns. They have decided that people…
The elite’s death wish and the Wuhan lab leak
Mao Zedong, the founder of Communist China, was a committed Marxist who supported the adaptation of such a Western ideology by…
You reap what you sow: why Christian Porter may lose his defamation case
You may recall the Attorney-General’s appearance on Q&A in 2015. There Christian Porter metaphorically threw all male victims of domestic violence…
Dear Prime Minister, Australia is not a racist country
Although I was born overseas I consider myself a very proud citizen of this country. Australia is widely recognised as one of…
How coronavirus controls killed my faith in the Liberal Party
The following is my letter of resignation from the Liberal Party. It has just been presented to the Membership Coordinator…
Cancel culture panel cancelled by cancel culture
Last Saturday I participated as a panellist at the Disrupted Festival of Ideas. Organised by the State Library of Western Australia, I was on…
Getting on with the job? What job, precisely, Prime Minister?
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrision said it was ‘the right decision’ of the Victorian Premier to impose lockdown draconian…
Daniel Andrews is breaking the boundaries
Victoria police arrested a pregnant mother in front of her little children in her Ballarat home. Zoe Buhler was arrested…
If Peter Ridd loses, academic freedom in Australia is dead
Scott Morrison once stated that he was unconcerned about ongoing attacks on free speech, because he thought that free speech…
Lockdown and the new Left Privilege
As a constitutional law scholar and legal theorist who appreciates our classical liberal tradition of constitutional government and the rule…
Coronavirus: a threat to lives. The government response? A threat to fundamental liberties
One of the few positive aspects of this present crisis is that some politicians are finally revealing their true authoritarian…
Jihad by fire?
Here is a basic question: Would it be possible to assume that deliberately setting fires in Australia could eventually become…
Domestic violence is too serious an issue to be used by bigots bashing Christianity
In an article in The Conversation yesterday, Vicki Lowik (a PhD candidate at Central Queensland University) and Annabel Taylor (an associate…
The hidden male victims of domestic violence
While domestic violence against women is constantly highlighted by the mass media, such violence against men is rarely reported. We…
How abuse of violence orders corrupts our family law system
I have recently prepared my submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee regarding Australia’s Family Law System. It summarises a number…
The feminist assault on justice — and due process
Sexual harassment, let alone sexual assault and rape, are tragic occurrences. However, the idea that any charge a woman brings…
Why everything you’ve been told about the Amazon wildfires is untrue
You have been told lies by the French President about the Amazon rainforest burning on an unprecedented scale. Everything –…
The religious freedom Trojan horse
There is a considerable risk that the Morrison government might be contemplating the enactment of discrimination laws that could ban…
A religious freedom commissioner: not just worse than doing nothing, but the wrong thing
Attorney-General Christian Porter intends to put the proposed religious discrimination bill to Parliament in the near future. Unveiling the government’s…
We need a Restoration of Freedoms Bill, not religious freedom legislation
The Morrison government is promising to introduce a religious discrimination bill. And yet, these reforms are unsatisfactory. They pose a…
Where’s the Prime Minister on the free speech crisis?
GoFundMe’s shutdown of Israel Folau’s fundraising page for “violation of … terms of service” is a troubling development for religious…
Facebook, that Christianity conference, and what happened next
When I decided to post a Facebook notice about our major legal conference that addresses the rising tide of anti-Christian…
Prime Minister, stop praising multiculturalism
‘What do Australia’s founding fathers and cultural diversity have in common? Both celebrate this country’s great multiculturalism’, Scott Morrison believes.…
Why is Facebook censoring a conference on Christianity and religious freedom?
Every day millions of Christians around the world are persecuted for their faith. They are often intimidated, abused and in…
