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The nanny state
Contrary to the opinion expressed by Matthew Parris, the nanny state did not initiate the changes that he so rightly…
Debunking unions: the cure for Australian schools?
The biggest problem families and schools face is the power imbalance generated by unions. Unions do not have the cure…
Are fact-checkers liars?
It is an almost daily occurrence. A huge story breaks online. Some CEO, company, or politician was caught in a…
The Left’s addiction to destruction
It was the late English philosopher Roger Scruton who once wrote: ‘Good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created……
Men in women’s prisons is a human rights violation
On Sunday September 11, I – and around 30 other Victorian women – gathered on Parliament steps in Melbourne to…
Was Christianity buried with Queen Elizabeth II?
Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made no bones about her deep Christian faith. Indeed, in her 2014 Christmas message,…
Ebola returns to the world stage
Welcome to yet another move in the game of pandemic chess we continue to find ourselves playing against the microbial…
Are you technically stupid? Check the Third Basic Law
Qualifying for the 3rd Basic Law of Human Stupidity is effortless for some, especially when they talk about the old…
Dutton sides with Dan Andrews in the Culture Wars
Liberal supporters disappointed that Scott Morrison wasn’t interested in fighting the Culture Wars will be dismayed to discover that Peter…
Climate criminals
If an ordinary person walks up to a priceless work of art in a gallery and either glues themselves to…
New Zealand’s pandemic science is cracking up
Government behaviour during Covid presented a chilling precedent for future pandemic event responses
Earth is not a Greenhouse
Warming alarmists claim: ‘Earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse.’ This is false. Glass is largely transparent to…
Russian cannon fodder
Never before has the world been so gripped with saving lives. We’ve survived Covid lockdowns imposed by governments claiming they’d…
Tyranny’s higher education production line
Reflecting on Jacinda Ardern’s recent attack on free speech at the United Nations, British pundit Brendan O’Neill astutely declared that…
Bros
Bros follows the story of a man who can’t decide if he’s one of the ‘smart’ or ‘stupid’ gays. Billy…
De-radicalisation programs are a nonsense
There is so much confused thinking about thinking. It is some people’s belief that all you have to do to…
A republic means a political president
The Australian Republican Movement (ARM) was founded on July 7, 1991. A few months later, Paul Keating deposed Bob Hawke…
Dead-weight drowning productivity
The green investments that threaten our future with their failures
The speed of science
As a way to excuse the rushed, reckless, and misleading manner in which some of the Covid vaccines were manufactured…
Kanye’s Wild West
What are we to make of Kanye’s latest stunt where he wore a shirt that read, ‘White Lives Matter’? Can…
The ‘consensus’ hoax
Is the adversarial nature of politics doomed? Despite what some members of the 47th Parliament often say, such as the…
From youth unemployment and welfare to the ADF
Australia currently has – among many others – four problems, which are related but which can be solved. The four…
Australia: welcomes ISIS brides, debates Novak Djokovic
The government is determined to allow ISIS brides back into the country but hasn’t made up its mind about Novak…
When is fascism not really fascism?
In his essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell wrote, ‘The word fascism has now no meaning.’ Last weekend, I…
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