Kevin Donnelly

Competition is essential to education

20 December 2024 6:12 pm

As night follows day, whenever the Year 12 ATAR results are released critics argue it must be replaced. Instead of…

Time to defend Western culture’s patrimony

14 November 2024 8:31 am

The Russian author and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, when writing about the importance of initiating each succeeding generation into the culture…

The Christian vote swings against Labor

14 October 2024 12:24 pm

When planning for the next federal election, due by September 2025 with some pundits suggesting as early as March, Prime…

Decolonisation destroys knowledge

22 July 2024 2:00 am

In 1945, British author George Orwell said, ‘One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no…

Omnicause

8 July 2024 2:00 am

When people stop believing in God, the British author GK Chesterton argues, the problem is, ‘They don’t believe in nothing;…

Temptations of a digital world

3 April 2024 1:43 am

In his recent book, The Anxious Generation, the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns about the debilitating and destructive impact of mobile phones…

Reject education furphies

18 March 2024 2:35 pm

Despite the additional billions invested over the last 30 years, countless educational enquiries and reports, several national reform agreements, and…

The question of identity

17 January 2024 4:00 am

One of the key reasons Australia voted 60/40 against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is because it was divisive. Instead…

The politics of envy

20 December 2023 11:54 am

One of the defining moments of the 2004 federal election was Mark Latham’s hit list of wealthy non-government schools and…

Education destroyed by self-serving educrats

8 December 2023 4:30 am

Such is the parlous and substandard state of Australia’s education system, if those in charge managed a major corporation like…

From the ski lodge to the sea: our kids will never be free

22 November 2023 11:50 am

As to why so many students wagged school last week protesting about the supposed man-made climate catastrophe and why so…

Toward a new totalitarianism

1 November 2023 4:00 am

There’s no doubt cultural-Marxist-inspired Woke ideology is destroying the best parts of Western Civilisation. Rationality, truth, and a spiritual or…

A true cultural turning point

19 October 2023 11:49 pm

In the week before the Voice referendum, the esteemed commentator for the Australian newspaper Paul Kelly argued if the ‘No’…

One person, one vote: Australia must say NO to race-based political privilege

13 October 2023 1:01 pm

Unlike totalitarian regimes, liberal Western democracies like Australia are based on the fundamental principle of one person, one vote. To…

Andrews’ legacy of lost trust

28 September 2023 4:00 am

Daniel Andrews (aka Dictator Dan/Chairman Dan) is one of the most divisive, self-serving, and Machiavellian politicians in recent history. While…

Del Noce and eroticism

27 September 2023 4:00 am

Why are children and teenagers being indoctrinated with neo-Marxist-inspired radical gender and sexuality theory? Why are transwomen cancelling women’s rights…

Australia’s Brexit moment

14 September 2023 6:30 am

The longer the Voice campaign goes on, and as more and more Australians say ‘No’, it’s obvious Prime Minister Albanese’s…

Conservatism in a modern world?

29 August 2023 5:00 am

What does it mean to be a conservative? One interpretation characterises conservatism as ossified, backward-looking, and incapable of change. In…

Our schools are failing – this is why

4 August 2023 4:00 am

The news earlier this year that the Labor government in Victoria will use schools to promote a ‘Yes’ case for…

Long march of the Marxists

11 July 2023 4:00 am

Instead of 'I think therefore I am', the credo is ‘I feel therefore I’m right’

Parents kept in the dark about gender

23 June 2023 5:00 am

Should a school or a student’s parents decide whether the child can be involved in gender transitioning? In Australia, material…

Parents left in the dark by new-age learning

9 June 2023 6:00 am

In the jargon and edubabble much loved by new-age, Woke educrats teachers no longer teach, instead they are described as…

Misgendering is the new blasphemy

29 May 2023 12:03 pm

Events in the UK, where a Christian teacher has been sacked for misgendering a female student who now identifies as…

IDAHOBIT: Victorian schools add another activist event to the calendar

13 May 2023 6:20 am

Victorian schools celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) set for May 18 prove, yet again, how…

Blacktivism and the Crown

7 May 2023 3:00 am

Given the coronation of King Charles III, there are differing and often conflicting opinions about the significance of the British…