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An endless coup
Do those campaigning against our national day really think that Australia, as we know it, would be here without the…
Business/Robbery etc
Business generally finds nothing unusual or disturbing about otherwise inconsequential Liberal politicians achieving their once-only 15 minutes of notoriety (let’s…
Lefty francophiles
What is it about left-leaning elites (so the significant preponderance of today’s ‘elite’ class) and France? It’s hard not to…
Clive spends big on Clive
Is it possible to buy your way into the federal parliament? It seems that we are about to find out…
The Left’s heart of darkness
When detailing the origins of the culture wars the British conservative politician Michael Gove refers to the establishment of the…
The problem with ‘right of return’
The United Nations Global Compact on Migration has brought issues relating to migrants and refugees to the fore for many…
Everything is… just fine
‘Britain in worst crisis since WWII,’ declared the Australian’s front page last Thursday. ‘Britain’s state of dismay,’ professed the Age’s…
Raise a glass to the British
Despite years of federal civics education courses, a survey taken some years ago revealed that the vast majority of school…
Here’s the recipe for success
After a family Christmas in Canada my wife and I are now in London for half a year. It’s been…
Western Civ: it’s not just for white people anymore
When the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation generously offered to fund ‘Western Civ’ courses at Australian universities, critics at the…
Business/Robbery etc
The omens for Australia point to a lousy 2019 – politically, economically, commercially and internationally. Fear that Coalition election defeats…
What I learned at the hand of Brother Joseph
If anybody used the term ‘religious freedom’ during my childhood, I would have assumed it referred to the times at…
Alice in Leftist-land
‘There’s no use trying,’ says Alice to the Queen in Through the Looking-Glass, ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ No? Clearly…
Aux bien pensants
The New York Times reports the truly shocking news that Australia punches below its weight. The NYT’s source, Lowy Institute…
Shame, shame, shame on New Zealand
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel once famously wrote ‘what hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but…
One-way hate speech
Britain is allowing political correctness, or fear of political incorrectness, increasingly to destroy its civil liberties and silence freedom of…
Foreign aid, feminist propaganda
‘Where are the women business leaders in Vietnam?’. It sounds like a question at a pub trivia night. The answer…
Live and don’t die
Nakhane was twenty-years old when, in the eyes of his community, he became a man. It was aged 20 that…
Activists heeding the Voice
The Land Rights campaign that took hold in the 1950s has never been about improving the lot of Aborigines but…
The deeper consternation of the Asia Bibi scandal
By now you are probably familiar with Asia Bibi. Accused of blasphemy while working in the fields near her home…
Meet Paris in a canter
The choice for Australia at the general election is between a slow or an accelerated decline. Managed decline is à…
Liberals, liberals everywhere
It is often said that England and America are divided by a common language, and you might as well throw…
The environmental impact of Creation
In the beginning God floated the idea of creating Heaven and Earth. He was immediately served with an injunction by…
The art of music
What does classical music, also known as art or serious music, do for us? The state spends vast amounts of…
Turnbullian nightmare
Don’t go into the Christmas holidays and 2019 thinking the nightmare is over. True, Malcolm Turnbull is no more, at…
