Brianna McKee

The Budget’s rivers of gold flow toward its pet political ambitions

31 May 2023 4:30 am

Comedy writer Robert Orben is credited with saying, ‘If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.’ It is a phrase the…

Ardern’s Aotearoa adieu

2 May 2023 4:00 am

Her trademark empathy on full display, Jacinda Ardern, the antipodean icon of female empowerment, recently delivered her farewell speech to…

What’s left of our cultural inheritance?

21 March 2023 6:00 am

Though it may come as a surprise to a postmodernist, 3,000 years of Western history offers some viable solutions to…

The ‘anti-discrimination’ bandwagon – coming to a school near you

6 March 2023 4:00 am

You have to hand it to the ‘anti-discrimination’ warriors – they are effective. Watch them go from city to city…

‘Away with the Manger’: Christmas hijacked by politics

24 December 2022 10:00 am

Away with the manger; no wisemen from afar; the little Lord Jesus; replaced by Indigenous art!

The kids aren’t alright

1 November 2022 4:00 am

The Age of Anxiety has dawned. While this may be easy to dismiss as a natural corollary of the recent…

Tyranny’s higher education production line

14 October 2022 2:26 pm

Reflecting on Jacinda Ardern’s recent attack on free speech at the United Nations, British pundit Brendan O’Neill astutely declared that…

Undoing Australia

6 August 2022 9:00 am

The University of Melbourne is training revolutionaries to dismantle the nation