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The future of Australia’s monarchy
Sombre recent events have driven pause and reflection, not only upon a life of great service, but on Australia’s connection…
On Her Late Majesty’s service
‘The Queen is dead, long live the King.’ Fellow Spokesperson Alessandro Rosini woke me with these words in Friday’s small…
Godzone is coming to Oz
Back in the 70s, I lived in New Zealand, (known locally as God’s own country, or ‘Godzone’ for short). A…
Dai Le’s patriotic speech leaves Left severely triggered
Australian, Dai Le, federal member for Fowler, delivered a spectacular ‘Australians-are-racist’ narrative-buster in her maiden speech. To the chagrin of Leftists,…
AFLW disrespect a towering female role model
The AFL decision to renege on its commitment last weekend to observe a minute’s silence to honour the passing of…
Queening ‘til the end
If you were saddened to learn of the death of Queen Elizabeth II (and evidently very few people on the…
Hazzard to ‘seek advice’ on child gender clinics
More than a year after child gender clinics in Europe began re-thinking puberty blockers and irreversible surgery for gender-confused children, questions are…
A tale of two cities
It is a tale of two cities. First is Barcaldine, Queensland, which has been left reeling after a proposed coal-fired…
ABC: too much Queen, not enough LGBTQ?
Darling of the ABC and former Insiders host Barrie Cassidy cannot understand why the national broadcaster is devoting so much…
Perrottet: just the annex!
The NSW Premier’s PR team might want to be a little more careful allowing Perrottet to loiter around historic buildings…
ACA after Tracy Grimshaw
With Tracy Grimshaw’s retirement from A Current Affair, Australians might speculate on who will replace the hard-hitting woman responsible for exposing…
The devotion of Elizabeth II
The death of Queen Elizabeth II is one of those special historical moments of near-universal feeling: a common, transcendent moment…
Our ‘matter-of-fact’ Queen in life and in death
The public outpouring of emotion and deep sorrow being expressed around the world following the death of Queen Elizabeth II…
The sharp decline since Paris
Returning from the 2015 Paris Agreement, former Clinton Energy chief Joe Romm, proclaimed: ‘You know, change happens slowly, until it happens…
Activists misplace their anger
By now, we have all heard that university professor Uju Anya did not like Queen Elizabeth II and regarded her…
Good news out of Canada!
I’m a native-born Canadian. When it comes to politics I virtually never say, ‘Look at the good news coming out…
Social Justice and the end of civility
How activists and academics justify hateful speech as an ‘act of postcolonial resistance’
Has your eco-anxiety got the better of you?
Are you suffering from a bout of eco-anxiety? Do you feel angry and infuriated about the lack of Climate Change…
Has Faruqi forgotten Islam’s colonising history?
In the first televised Christmas Broadcast in 1957, a young Queen Elizabeth II said something remarkably prescient and poignant: ‘The trouble is…
The Queen: symbolic and mythical
The Queen has died after a reign longer than any other. Many people have found themselves touched by her death,…
The next tax raid in the super wars
The bigger the super pot, the more vulnerable it is to tax raids
‘Bubonic plague’ preferable to union rule
The Christmas and New Year family feasts were still ambling their way through my digestive system when I noted (from…
Jordan Peterson defends the Commonwealth
We have heard plenty from our morally-rotten politicians, journalists who have no idea what a constitutional monarchy is, and hateful…
Senator Faruqi, heal thyself
On the morning of the announcement of the death of the much-loved and widely admired Queen Elizabeth II, Greens Deputy…
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