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The presumption of innocence? Bah! says ScoMo
The presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings, often expressed in the phrase ‘innocent until proven guilty’, is an ancient tenet…
The Liberal Party’s mission to end liberalism
Come the next election, I will be voting the Liberal Party last. My reasoning is very simple. If I am…
Why would the West want to invade Russia?
A June 2016 Levada poll found that 68 per cent of Russians think NATO troops in the Baltic States and…
The hypocrisy of ‘Environmental, Social, and Governance’
After I started my business more than 30 years ago, I joined a group of fellow owners and CEOs who…
Which bread are you…?
There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about what type of bread each of us identifies with. According…
‘Fair trial’ derailed by the Prime Minister
This week’s parliamentary apology to Brittany Higgins was greeted by lawyers everywhere with a gasp of incredulity that our Prime…
The false propaganda of racism
As a boy growing up in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, I was used to seeing violence and cruelty.…
Never again: a manifesto on freedom
I can clearly remember walking around Sydney harbour on Australia Day in 2020. My partner and I meandered through The…
Perrottet fancies a bit of Bega
Dominic Perrottet obviously thinks Bega is in play at the by-election on Saturday judging by his presence last week in…
Mob hysteria
While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have…
Man bites dog
This is what happens when the self-appointed preachers of tolerance and respect don’t get their way. LGBTQ activists have covered…
Civility? It’s empathy we need
Following leaked text messages showing the way politicians can talk behind closed doors, Grace Tame’s rudeness towards the Prime Minister,…
The basics (and evils) of Cultural Marxism
Readers might be aware of Cultural Marxism, contained within the academic field of Critical Theory as a collection of heavily…
Letter from New York – where empathy is exhausted
This week, in one carriage of the New York City subway, there were seven homeless people taking shelter on an…
History on the side of Barnaby Joyce
The ambush on Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison at his Canberra Press Club address last week was extraordinary. So too…
The greater good - or a grander evil?
Every time I hear some middling news reporter parrot ‘for the greater good’ in reference to whatever the next absurd…
The Liberals are a lost cause
For some time, the Liberal Party has been walking a dangerous path, one lined with terrible policies and dodgy backroom…
Australia desperately needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission
Talk about missing the point… All those clamouring for a federal corruption commission to be an election issue have so…
Israel confounds the promise of vaccines as the way out of Covid
Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it…
Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus
Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with…
GoFundMe’s spectacular ‘woke’ collapse
The CEO of GoFundMe, Tim Cadogan, set his Twitter account to ‘private’ after presiding over one of the biggest outrages…
Labor loves the ‘F’ word, but is too bashful to say it
Queensland loves a good rort, doesn’t it? Their integrity commissioner, Dr. Nikola Stepanov, resigned midway through her three-year term last week. Why?…
‘Conspiracy theorists’ – the new extremists
The rationale that dominates the minds of the mainstream, which for over two years has dictated the dominant discourse, seems…
The real hippies are with Joe Rogan
I have been trying to avoid writing about Joe Rogan since everyone has a take on the old hippy rockers vs…
Will the Religious Discrimination Bill see the light of day?
The 2022 Australian federal election must be held on or before May 21, 2022 to elect members of the 47th…
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