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WEF Watch: carbon accounting
Given the risk posed by the closed-door lobbying group more commonly known as the World Economic Forum, this year The Spectator…
In search of common sense
I am sure that, like me, you have not only used the term ‘common sense’ yourselves, but have heard many…
Is Queensland’s Minister for Women selling out women and girls?
Under Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Women, and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman’s new bill, a…
Will history judge Benedict XVI more kindly than his contemporaries?
This weekend I have been touring TV studios trying to set the late Pope Benedict’s life and work in perspective.…
Liberate New Year’s Eve
We are nearly at the end of the first day in 2023. Presumably, most people have ruined their resolution diet…
Australia’s New Year resolutions
As I consider the future and look forward to the year 2023, I have resolved to make the following solemn…
Pope Benedict XVI: towering intellect and deep piety
Sydney’s Cardinal Anthony Fisher is right to praise the late Pope Benedict XVI as ‘a man of towering intellect and…
Building babies in a brave new world
The term ‘dystopian’ gets thrown around a lot these days, but it’s fair to say that the idea of babies…
Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK
I admire Tucker Carlson, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Miranda Devine, but they’ve all done a disservice recently in fuelling foolish…
You don’t decide your pronouns – we do
How often do you get emails from someone who signs off with their pronouns? How often are you confronted in…
The crimes of eco-fascism
Conservatives never should have surrendered the ground of environmental conservation to the radicalised, collectivised, totalitarian Left. Since becoming custodians of…
No time for panic
Cristina Talacko is the CEO of Coalition for Conservation, an environmental charity working with centre-right politicians on energy and climate…
Farewell 2022: the year of vindication
2022 has been a big year for conspiracy theorists – mainly because most of what they said is in the…
Del Noce, modernity, and the death of the Enlightenment
In Looking back on the Spanish Civil War (1943) George Orwell writes, such is the power of totalitarian thought control…
Happy Energophobia!
It is the New Year season, so I thought we should celebrate around something that will be common to all…
Batteries not included
Renewable energy battery farms threaten to cripple the economy with cyclic costs
Pull it together, Australia!
Australia is a great nation and a country to be proud of. We have faced challenging times, year after year,…
The slippery slope to socialism
I have the heater on in mid-summer Australia, so it makes sense that ‘they’ changed ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’…
A ‘borderless world’? Not for carbon!
The European Union has long been known as a collection of bad ideas. On brand, it has decided to become…
Australia’s democratic backslide
Democracy is the backbone of the Australian way of life. By global standards, Australia’s electoral and democratic institutions are at…
Bin chickens chow down on cane toads
Cane toads have long been painted as an existential threat to Queensland’s ecosystem. Since their deliberate introduction in 1935 by…
Australia and a Pacific ‘shape up’ in 2023
This year, the Pacific Islands clearly featured much more vividly in Australian politics. Near-state collapse in the Solomon Islands, matched…
What should we go to war over?
Foreign Minister Penny Wong went to Beijing to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to mark the 50th anniversary…
Did the Victorian elections ignore the Constitution and Human Rights Charter?
When the Bracks government in Victoria established an Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in 2006 it bragged that it…
Childish China threatens Taiwan (again)
China has decided to finish the year by antagonising Taiwan. Reports indicate that 71 planes and 7 military ships were…
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