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Western Civilisation speaks for itself
There’s been a bit of buzz in the news this week about the Ramsay Centre’s new Bachelor of Arts degrees…
Trad is much more than a four letter word as the Queensland poll looms
To the eternal shame of conservative politicians in Queensland, the most memorable and most damaging barb fired at scandal-prone Treasurer…
Let’s have real award simplification: let’s make it simple to pay workers what they’re owed
Last week, as George Calombaris saw his life’s work tumble thanks to payroll errors, Labor industrial relations spokesman Tony Burke wrote:…
Time to drive the luxury car tax out of Australia
Liberals Tim Wilson, Craig Kelly, Jason Falinski and James Paterson are grinding Treasurer Josh Frydenburg’s gears by demanding we send…
The true Tony Abbott
Earlier this week, the book Abbott: The Defining Speeches, which I edited with the former prime minister’s speechwriter Paul Ritchie,…
A requiem for suicide
Let’s rewind time by about a year. Back then I would have said suicide was one of those awful things that impacted other people, strangers and so on…
Will our new moral police ever stop harassing Israel Folau?
Israel Folau is no longer allowed to play sport in Australia—of every sporting code—and so he has been forced to…
No point holding on to Holden
Another one bites the dust in Australian manufacturing. This time it’s Holden. Across Australia, people are lamenting the end of…
ABC in ‘suicide attempt’ scandal
You know that string of errors by The(ir) ABC? Well, it just got even longer. Comedian Rosie Waterland has taken to…
This one takes the cake, but you can’t eat it
A Perth primary school principal’s inspired idea to ban birthday cakes at his school in case they offended students from…
Richard Dawkins, euthanasia and eugenics
Richard Dawkins is the gift that just keeps on giving. Well, at least for us religious types who believe in…
Let’s save the planet by eliminating everyone
We have come to the place where our supposed love for the planet means that we must now hate people.…
Won’t somebody please think of the ABC journos?
In a salient display of a free press and journalistic independence, the Australian government-owned national broadcaster has taken the Australian…
Jordan Peterson and how the left seek to destroy those it hates
Jordan Peterson, one of the world’s leading intellectuals and a twenty-first-century champion of academic truth has just passed through one of the most…
The left’s hypocrisy on “racism”
It’s just as well the left keeps losing elections around the world – worse than losing votes; they’ve lost the…
The Minister, Sir Humphrey and Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s grant
The Australia Council was the creation of the Whitlam government and, in the last round of grant recipients, to the…
So you think you’re a classical liberal?
A fair number of people nowadays are announcing that they’re classical liberals. An apparently more or less equal number of…
Don’t mention the pandemic
The Woke Health Organisation – sorry, the World Health Organisation – continues to provide non-stop entertainment as the Coronavirus spreads.…
What’s woke this week
This week kids’ cartoons that will turn your little darlings into global capitalists, Big Brother policing of fashion faux pas,…
Love and Thoms: this isn’t closing the gap, but entrenching our differences
Friends, Romans, Countrymen – Lend me your ears and hear my words. This week the High Court of Australia handed…
Don’t say our pollies are wising up to the benefits of small scale nuclear energy?
There is probably only one thing that makes conservatives happier than seeing the lunatic Green left meltdown over climate change,…
Score-settling does not deal with veteran suicide
Ivan Coronel Hains died “suddenly” in Sydney on April 18, 1952, aged 61. A medical doctor, he had held senior…
Sorry doomsayers, but the science says there’s now no climate emergency
It is somewhat ironic – though in some ways unsurprising – that at the time when the climate change activism…
Dark Emu, the High Court and our crude new racial hierarchy
“[We hope for] a future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with…
Is there a Democrat who can defeat The Donald?
After an embarrassing Iowa caucus, the smoother New Hampshire primary did more to determine who will not become the nominee…
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Into the lion’s den
Justice Lee has just put an end to the old-fashioned date night
