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‘Howitzer Harry’: shots fired
Let’s face it, Harry Windsor has taken the ‘festive season’ seriously and kept us all mightily amused with his ripping…
M&M’s: saving women one calorie at a time
I’ve never really thought of M&M’s as having a gender when they disappear from the packet and head straight to…
The old man’s tale
The councilman was adamant: ‘The Law must have its way, The shed you built is not approved It must come…
The corporate church
Corporate culture is an absolute curse on society that corrupts everything it touches. Woke policies, left-wing ideals, and a severe…
Of Marx and men
In a recent speech at Oxford University, renowned thinker and writer Peter Hitchens lamented that conservativism is dead in Western…
Qatar wins against Woke
Last month (or year to be precise), the FIFA World Cup ended with the most entertaining final in the sport’s…
Daniel Andrews: double standards that undermine innocence?
Let me start by making something clear. I am no unqualified admirer of the late Cardinal George Pell. On the…
Jordan Peterson: go to Camp Woke for re-education or ‘die’
The re-education of Jordan Peterson is yet another ‘forced speech’ assault on free speech by civilisation’s Woke fascists. Peterson being…
Thank you, Cardinal George Pell
Cardinal George Pell has died suddenly, days after commenting publicly at the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Less than…
Mobiles in the dock
‘Why are the police withholding evidence?’ The young man’s cry of bewilderment is understandable. The PhD student came to Australia…
Were Archbishop Costelloe’s comments on Cardinal Pell unjust?
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe is the Catholic Archbishop of Perth. He is also President of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. On…
Lib-Nats: to victory, and beyond
Conservative politics and conservatism in Australia are in dire straits. And conservatives, being, well … conservative, are in no position…
Dr Peter McCullough – the next Djokovic?
It’s happening again… Australia previously embarrassed itself on the public stage when it called one of the greatest and most…
Peter Dutton: statement on the passing of Cardinal George Pell
Australia received the news this morning of the passing of Cardinal George Pell DD AC. The son of a Ballarat…
Cardinal George Pell: Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figure
There’s no doubt Cardinal George Pell is one of Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figures. While some will see…
Ideas, my dear girl, ideas
Excuse me for so poorly paraphrasing Harold Macmillan, but fair dinkum. It feels like our political overlords are speaking in…
Cracks appear in employer vaccine mandates
As we come back to work in 2023, many Australian companies are still mandating that their staff be ‘fully vaccinated’…
The truth about ‘anti-democratic’ protests in Brazil
Thousands of Brazilians have occupied this Sunday their country’s Congress to protest against the election and inauguration of far-left presidential…
Dark money
Recent years have seen a strengthening dominance of politics over individual and commercial decision-making. This is readily evident in the…
Valley of the Whales: science, power, and politics
Wādī al-Ḥītān, also known as ‘The Valley of the Whales’, is an extraordinary paleontological site sitting 150 km south-west of…
Climate lockdowns: a never-ending story of misery and control
Here is a harsh truth we must be cognisant of: the same power-hungry control freaks who wanted to lock down…
The difference between ‘her’ and ‘I’
She runs into the sea, hair blowing in the wind. She’s just finished her first year of university and working…
Reinstate one, reinstate all
An unvaccinated Northern Territory firefighter has recently returned to work after being sacked in late 2021 because of the NT…
A grassroots revival of conservative politics
John Howard and Peter Costello are right to remind the federal government that we are ‘robbing the future to pay…
An angry voice?
Marcia Langton appears to be frustrated that there is opposition to enshrining the Voice in our Constitution. Writing in The Saturday…
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