No sex please, we’re progressive
The Prime Minister’s recent puritanical edicts regarding relationships between ministers and their staff do not have roots in conservative Christianity,…
Don’t let the loony left spoil our party
If you were a tourist attending the Australian Open, and you happened to have been perusing the papers in between…
How to win the West (back)
In the last few months, the concept of ‘Western Civilisation’ has received significant coverage in the Australian press. In the…
How our teachers score top Marx
At the end of last week, the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English convened in Melbourne for its annual…
The West’s unstoppable march toward ‘yes’
The outcome of the same-sex marriage poll is probably one of the least surprising things to have happened this year.…
Sex and gender in the British Empire, anyone?
In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and…
Teachers as activists
Earlier this month, parents at Forestville Public School in the Northern beaches were invited to watch their children perform in…
Taxpayers notes
Wasting millions on Humanities grants This month, a number of university departments across Australia will be filled with the sound…
Killing the university
In March, the University of Melbourne Student Union ran an “intersectional and student-led workshop around the ways in which privilege and unconscious bias…
The Left aren’t just giving Australia Day the arse…
Last Friday, the University of Western Australia Student Guild voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing the date of Australia Day and proposed to…
What’s so bad about January 26?
This week, Warren Mundine proposed that Australia Day should be moved from January 26 to January 1, because the 26th…
A new breed of ‘historian’
In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…
A new breed of ‘historian’
In the next few weeks, thousands of young Australians, having just finished 12 years of schooling, will be preparing themselves…
Blue Poles: sell this monument to madness
Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles must be sold. Not because it’s a bad painting or because it fails the Australian test,…