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GULAG aghast at Wayne Swan’s gender surrender
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: Swannie got his election analysis half right about why…
How many international students are too many?
The Centre for Independent Studies report ‘The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities’ presented the…
Gambling — and losing — on bleeding hearts
Priya and Nades Murugappan, the Tamil couple from Biloela in Queensland, and their unfortunate children must wish they had not…
No recession, but a big policy ask ahead
The economic ghouls may be disappointed that last week’s real GDP read-out for the quarter came without a minus sign.…
The question no politician wants to face about suicide
World Suicide Prevention Day 2019 is tomorrow, September 10. In theory, it should provide an opportunity to raise honest awareness…
Pornography: neither a culprit nor a cop-out
Jaymes Todd, the Melbourne man given a life sentence last week for the cowardly rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon…
Dollars don’t lie: when immigration support makes sense
You’d have to have been living under a rock these past few weeks not to have heard about the Priya…
The RBA has lost it
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Phillip Lowe has demonstrated that the RBA and central banks, in general, are simply unable…
Alan Jones: tribune of the people
David Flint writes: Alan Jones, probably the most influential commentator in the Australian media has announced his retirement from leading…
Official: climate change denial is misogyny
The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In other words, those who don’t believe in…
Is Australia really a racist country?
The title of this article is a question; one that relates to Aboriginal people. So when I talk about whether…
EXCLUSIVE: How Hong Kong hospitals fought to treat police violence victims
Hundreds of medical personnel from three hospitals across Hong Kong have staged sit-ins this week in resistance to the excessive…
Boris Johnson must find his inner Pericles and restore power to the people
It’s mind-boggling that we are still talking about Brexit three years after the British people voted to leave the European…
#MeToo is destroying lives (oh, and opportunities for women)
It may have started as an awareness movement with good intentions, but #MeToo has become a female power play –…
Dave Chapelle shows us why we need more jokes
Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix Special ‘Sticks and Stones’ could offend just about everybody. There are racist stereotypes, homophobic and transphobic punchlines,…
NSW pollies, you can’t sit on the spire: you’re either pro-life or not
To use Mick Young’s mighty slogan from 1972, ‘It’s Time’. It’s time that all of the New South Wales parliamentarians…
So we’ll hit our renewable energy target by 2020 – but at what cost?
Their ABC is rejoicing. We’ll hit our renewable energy target by 2020. But at what cost? The Australian government only…
Why everything you’ve been told about the Amazon wildfires is untrue
You have been told lies by the French President about the Amazon rainforest burning on an unprecedented scale. Everything –…
Just who is protesting in Hong Kong?
Just who’s protesting in Hong Kong? It’s only radicals, apparently. That’s what the Nine Network’s left-wing tabloids, claim, anyway: So…
The great ‘what ifs’ of September 3, 1939
Eighty years ago today, World War II began. On September 1, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and…
National Flag Day: a time to celebrate continuity, tradition and unity
Each year, Australia’s National Flag Day is celebrated on September 3. The date commemorates when the flag was first flown…
The political trap behind the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
The biggest obstacle facing the campaign for Indigenous constitutional recognition remains the lack of detail concerning the role and operation…
EXCLUSIVE: From the ground in Hong Kong – the key element missing in reporting
The protests in Hong Kong have rightly attracted international media attention. Escalating tensions frequently boil over into violence coming from…
What’s woke this week
Wokedom has a love affair with self-indulgent gobbledygook dressed up as meaning too deep for the ignorant masses to understand…
What don’t ‘refugee advocates’ get about democratic process?
Do we want to be governed by democratic process or activists on Twitter? That’s the choice staring us in the…
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