Mark Powell

In a mental health crisis church controls don’t pass the pub test

27 May 2020 5:00 am

In New South Wales, pubs and clubs will soon be allowed to open for 50 people but churches will still…

This pandemic is about more than identity politics. True

14 May 2020 3:46 pm

Australia’s National LGBTI Health Alliance has said of coronavirus “We acknowledge the panic, frustration, confusion and uncertainty felt by many…

The Planet of the Humans: Moore vs Gore and the renewables recidivists

27 April 2020 4:00 pm

Michael Moore’s The Planet of the Humans is currently one of the top trending videos on YouTube. Just in time…

Mark Latham takes on the ‘anti-discrimination’ industry

25 April 2020 1:47 pm

I don’t know when it happened precisely, but Mark Latham has become one of the champions of religious freedom in…

WHO on earth do they think they are?

23 April 2020 1:40 pm

I woke up this morning to one of the strangest tweets ever. It was from World Health Organisation boss Tedros…

Chernobyl and the Chinese flu: spot the difference

21 April 2020 5:00 am

There’s a scene in the HBO mini-series, Chernobyl that bears an uncanny similarity to the current communist cover-up involving COVID-19.…

WHO’s to blame for the WHOhan flu

15 April 2020 12:30 pm

Donald Trump has halting America’s funding to the World Health Organisation. The US President has said: Today I’m instructing my…

Hell’s Pell: the High Court has ruled, but the media demonisation continues

12 April 2020 6:07 pm

The recent High Court decision which unanimously upheld the appeal of George Pell against the Victorian Court of Appeal’s decision…

The George Pell travesty is over. Now journalists, politicians and courts all stand condemned

7 April 2020 5:25 pm

Today’s High Court decision which unanimously—seven to zero—upheld the appeal of Cardinal George Pell against the Victorian Court of Appeal’s…

Coronavirus can’t be a cover for elder abuse

7 April 2020 2:45 pm

The situation in Spain due to coronavirus is dire. But what is particularly horrifying, is how many of the nation’s…

Are you happy now, Greta?

3 April 2020 5:00 am

Apparently, the current coronavirus pandemic is not linked to the exotic eating habits of the Chinese, but instead is due to “the…

Italy as the model? That a brave call, even for the(ir) ABC

31 March 2020 10:56 am

The health situation in Italy is dire. Tragically, over 11,000 people have died in excess of 100,000 people have caught…

We’re now paying the price for our Faustian folly with China

25 March 2020 11:37 am

If coronavirus has taught us anything it’s that the Chinese regime cannot be trusted. Please note that I said regime and…

Closing the Rock and the problems of progressive paternalism

24 March 2020 12:08 pm

You may have been too busy in a supermarket queue last Saturday to read the remarks of former head ranger…

Donald Trump goes Kung Flu fighting

20 March 2020 4:45 pm

There seems to be no end to the hatred against United States President. Just recently his administration was accused by…

Coronavirus, climate change and C S Lewis

15 March 2020 7:45 am

As I write this article I am about to board an almost deserted plane from Northern Thailand bound for Bangkok and then…

Soon we won’t even be able to use the old bullock dray – the methane emissions

3 March 2020 4:00 pm

The political madness of Britain committing itself to a net-zero emissions target by 2050 has been highlighted by David van Gend in an excellent…

EXCLUSIVE: Forget Newspeak, meet Lovespeak

23 February 2020 12:00 pm

If you were still in any doubt as to George Orwell’s powers of prediction, then just consider this. The ANZ bank…

Will our new moral police ever stop harassing Israel Folau?

19 February 2020 5:05 pm

Israel Folau is no longer allowed to play sport in Australia—of every sporting code—and so he has been forced to…

Richard Dawkins, euthanasia and eugenics

18 February 2020 4:00 pm

Richard Dawkins is the gift that just keeps on giving. Well, at least for us religious types who believe in…

Jordan Peterson and how the left seek to destroy those it hates

17 February 2020 1:35 pm

Jordan Peterson, one of the world’s leading intellectuals and a twenty-first-century champion of academic truth has just passed through one of the most…

The Top 10 Tweets of 2019

20 December 2019 4:01 pm

Well, it’s been quite a year on social media. And true to form, the cesspool of human opinion that is…

Not all protestors are created equal

7 November 2019 12:23 pm

Labor leader Anthony Albanese tweeted his support for people’s democratic right to protest earlier this week. This is what it…

Ten reasons why climate catastrophists need to cool down

16 October 2019 5:00 am

If we are to believe the hype, then human civilisation as we know it is on the brink of extinction.…

All about consent, without consent

10 October 2019 5:37 pm

While officials in Indonesia have been busy channelling their inner Turnbull in prosecuting sexual infidelity, The University of Technology Sydney…