The manosphere vs the ABC
The ‘manosphere’, as popularised by US conservative podcasters, has made masculinity cool again – and Donald Trump’s election victory legitimised…
Aussie life
The University of Sydney’s Environment Institute (SEI) was launched in 2014 by Professor David Schlosberg ahead of a lecture discussing…
More university bureaucracy, more problems
The modern world has a bureaucracy problem. When confronted with an issue, the typical response from government is to create…
Cutting HECS debt is not a win for young Australians
The federal government’s plan to use taxpayers’ money to wipe $16 billion off student loans was welcomed with fanfare by…
The path to falling university rankings is paved with bureaucratic intentions
Regulation of speech leads to regulation of thought
Voice anniversary & the battle of the sexes
Gen Z long for a past they never had
International student export earnings overstated as problems grow
Mark Twain famously popularised the saying, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ Here he referred…
They’re a weird mob at Melbourne uni
The hard-working migrant is a ‘trope’, apparently
Make motherhood great again
This is how Australia raises fertility rates
Orwellian double-speak on international student caps
Australia, and other Western nations, long ago entered an Orwellian era where ‘double-speak’ is becoming increasingly common in politics. It’s…
Hate speech excuse silences free speech on university campuses
One of the first decisions of the newly elected British Labour government was to shelve plans to protect free speech…
The revival of Australian patriotism
Woolworths decides to sell flags for the Olympic Games
It’s time for a reckoning on race and gender
The Western world is facing a reckoning on race and gender. The rise of discriminatory hiring practices is usually the…
Campus protests are a free speech test for universities
‘This is a major win.’ These were the words of a spokesperson after the University of Melbourne caved in to…
Kill comedy, kill truth
French playwright Moliere once said, ‘The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.’ As the share of television…
Australian Universities Accord to take the hammer to TAFE
Amid an acute nationwide worker shortage, only the political class in Canberra would propose something as counterproductive as the takeover…
‘Hell to pay’ if gender equity activists get their way
Every year, like clockwork, the grievance industry works itself into a righteous fury over the annual Employer Census results compiled…
The new space race: putting Woke into orbit
If we want to reach for the stars, then it will be our best and brightest – not virtue signalling…
A victory for commonsense!
In a win for commonsense, education ministers across the country have recently signed off on measures requiring universities to include…
Elite universities loathe us
Our centres of higher learning can’t stand mainstream Australian values
Women pay the price for the Prime Minister’s productivity problems
Despite a rapidly declining birth rate across the Western world, new research out of the United States shows many people…
The predictable dive of Australian universities in global rankings
In August this year, Institute of Public Affairs’ research once again highlighted the free speech crisis on Australian university campuses.…
The niche, elitist research of universities: a waste of money
Each year more than $12 billion disappears into the abyss vaguely described as ‘research and development’ in the higher education…
Free speech on campus, actions are louder than words
Last week the University of Sydney announced that it would avoid taking an official position on the Voice to Parliament.…
Cheque mate
$100 million a day and Labor wants a blank cheque
