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West and East divide along the economic green line
Dismantling reliable power is crippling Australia
A serious tax agenda for Queensland
Queensland voters go to the polls in just over a month, and despite a lot of political announcements there has…
2026 Census: confusion about gender requires biological clarity
The slowly simmering cultural and legal conflicts between the rights of natal females and males who identify as female has…
Nuclear fear-mongering is not science
Nuclear energy opponents frequently cite cost and safety as reasons for Australia not to include nuclear plants in our future…
Moira Deeming v John Pesutto
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennet, Jane’s puritanical sister, is recorded as saying: ‘Loss of virtue in a…
Hate crime and gender lawfare
As if the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill tabled on September 12 isn’t draconian enough, another new federal bill has been…
A chilling move toward government overreach
In 2024, the Liberal Party, under the leadership of Scott Morrison, proposed the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation)…
The final nail in the Liberal broad church?
Weakness on the misinformation and disinformation bill could prove fatal
Extinction lecture event
Adelaide University, one of the elite Group of Eight universities in Australia (and my alma mater in the 1970s pre-Woke…
100 dignitaries sign open letter condemning Brazil
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADL) have launched an open letter, condemning Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ attacks on X. More…
Rainbow Toolkit activism, let children be children
Most parents today send their children off to kindergarten and school with the expectation that as they progress from infancy…
Government spending needs reform before taxes
I would like a dollar for every time I’ve read how much the Australian economy needs tax reform. Sure, it…
A wider malaise in the culture of Defence
The news that campaign and gallantry medals will be stripped from a bevy of middle-ranking officers over allegations of war…
The Greens’ housing delusion
There is nothing better than living in your own home. Even with a mortgage, being able to be the king…
Is Thierry Breton’s resignation a win for Elon Musk?
Described as ‘France’s powerful European Commissioner’, the EU bureaucrat who lectured Elon Musk about online censorship has resigned suddenly. Thierry…
Bureaucratic hypocrisy on the International Day of Democracy
Yesterday was the International Day of Democracy. Perhaps conscious of democracy’s decline under their watch, all the usual suspects have…
Memo to Putin: you are the criminal, stop lecturing Nato
It’s crazy strange to see violent criminals getting upset with defenders and the police, wanting to direct their actions. Don’t…
Restoring the presumption of innocence
Hosted by Australians for Science and Freedom and sponsored by Mothers of Sons, the recent conference on Restoring the Presumption…
Leaders cannot legislate away social media anxiety
Concern about social media-based anxiety is popping up everywhere. Leaders of many kinds are talking about it, decrying it, and…
Pope Francis and the ‘lesser evil’: abortion over borders?
At least the cat-eating memes made sense. Over the weekend, American politics has taken a bizarre turn with Pope Francis…
The field of Mars
In this city of Lviv, ancient churches with crumbling walled ramparts sit beside trendy bars with beautiful hipsters in carefully…
The extinction of free speech and religious freedom
On September 10 at 9 pm, the Queensland Parliament, where the Steven Miles Labor government has a majority, adopted the…
The great green wall
Is China’s offer of assistance regarding the ‘Great Green Wall’ in Africa a genuine attempt to save the world from…
Gone to the dogs (and cats)
Months from now, the only trace of the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will be the lingering bad…
New censorship and surveillance beast is tabled in Parliament
The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024, which was tabled on September 12, makes it a civil…
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