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Hamas is being supported by TikTok diplomacy
On May 20, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, Karim Ahmad Khan KC (a British national), called for the arrest of…
Alex Antic: Julian Assange and a Trump Rally
Late last year, I joined a Parliamentary delegation to the United States to speak to US lawmakers and department heads…
Banning live export threatens disaster for Western Australia
Like other Australian urbanites who stomp around our capital cities in their RM Williams, my current knowledge of the bush…
On the road to Gadigal land
How many of us as kids enjoyed – or were forced to undergo – family road trips? Mile after mile…
The ICC defends one false moral equivalence by making another
Last week, in an article in The Australian, I joined many from around the world denouncing the moral equivalence from…
Terrorism to heroism – the Hamas trajectory
How long before a gun-toting, slogan-chanting Hamas fighter (but not a female) is invited to address the UN General Assembly?…
A stealth boondoggle
The NDIS is a public policy albatross, initiated with the worthiest of intentions, that has been allowed to mutate into…
The Sofronoff Express at platform ‘speed’
The Magna Carta meets the ACT’s legal system on the Sofronoff Express in what promises to be a historic and…
Glaciers, graziers, glaziers, and the strangler fig
A perfunctory search on Wikipedia informs that the Strangler Fig, Ficus watkinsiana, ‘grows on another tree, using it as physical support, while…
Covid vaccines: saviour or … ?
It’s interesting that the esteemed editor of this site [ Brownstone ] has concluded, after more than four years of cogitation, that…
Pushover conservatives will lose the culture wars
Balance does not exist in nature. As a vacuum is filled, so too must a spinning top topple, a speeding…
Winning over young men
Message to the Libs. Don’t turn off the young men – they are your best hope of regaining power. There’s…
Campus protests are a free speech test for universities
‘This is a major win.’ These were the words of a spokesperson after the University of Melbourne caved in to…
Let’s not forget why we’re here
On multiple occasions this week, I’ve found myself wondering if I was living in some dystopian alternate reality. I watched…
How long before laughter is grounds for cancellation?
Jerry Seinfeld is not just a practitioner of comedy, he’s become a philosopher of the profession and he’s arguing that…
Will the Bank of England be the first to cut interest rates?
With inflation in the UK down to 2.3 per cent now and some suggesting that the Bank of England ought…
Don’t deport little Aussie Luca
Life really can be bitter-sweet – it can throw up hurdles and roadblocks when they are least expected but sometimes, when all…
Use deadly force: Biden green-lit FBI raid to go nuclear on Trump
Damning new court documents reveal Joe Biden apparently green lighting the ‘use of deadly force’ in the FBI’s 2022 raid…
ANZ outage is nothing compared to Digital ID in a cashless society
Another day, another service outage from a major Australian bank which renders your money useless. It’s one thing for someone…
Plenty of dry eyes
The death of Iran’s President, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter crash earlier this week has been met with plenty of…
Art’s gone Woke and no longer serves the common good
Perhaps the National Gallery of Australia should be renamed the National Fringe Gallery of Australia...
The making and un-making of a feminist radical: my story
Nothing was ever said about the good that men had done and continued to do
In defence of parliamentary procedure
Gabrielle de Vietri is a member of the Victorian Parliament. In my view, it’s time she acted like it. A…
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