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Cancel culture’s double fault against Margaret Court
There’s a new phrase du jour to describe methods in current use by the aggrieved and disaffected, those that feel called…
From Moscow to Tony Abbott, via Annika Smethurst’s underwear drawer
Edward Snowden’s dad and a mate of mine are on the same page: Ed Snowden is “the greatest American patriot…
True equality, ideology – and PC priorities
Extremist ideology, in any form, can never sit harmoniously with true equality. By its very nature, extremist ideology places some…
Clem goes gooey over dead white male
Just when I think Clementine Ford couldn’t get any more hypocritical she has managed to outdo any previous effort. At…
Sacha, free speech trumps censorship in fighting lies, you clown
Late last month actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made waves when he spoke at the Anti-Defamation League summit. In his speech…
How Pauline Hanson became Shanghai Sam in drag
The CFMMEU is to Australia’s industrial relations system what China is to the West: a bully with too much money…
Why ‘progressives’ are going nowhere
As the Labor Party, following its unexpected loss in the recent federal election, is forced to question the progressive worldview…
If we can’t trust big government, how can we trust it with religious liberty?
Ten days ago, Attorney-General Christian Porter confirmed at the National Press Club “religious hospitals and aged care providers will be…
Forget the Deep State, it’s the Shallow State that’s the big issue
As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night. The same can…
An American explains Thanksgiving: it’s a lesson in economics
As an American living in Australia, it can be hard going at times – especially now. No sumptuous turkey dinner…
The ABC’s in a PC pickle
Political correctness is out of control. You know it, I know it… and, it seems, even ABC diehards know it. …
Let’s be better than the left dealing with different opinions
The story goes that a student of philosophy was asked in an exam to prove a chair which had been…
What’s woke this week?
Animal rights and feminist film criticism have stirred up wokeworld this week and, as we predicted last week, the run-up…
Clive James isn’t dead. He’s just off learning something new
There must be poets writing today who can’t remember a time when Clive James wasn’t dying. Indeed, his capitulation to…
Healthy, safe, quality lives matter more than an Indigenous ‘voice to parliament’
Much has been written about the demand for an Indigenous voice. While such an idea is necessarily political, I wish…
I love a man, er, Green in uniform
It’s going to take a long, long time to ever forget Greens Party leader Richard Di Natale’s 2016 spread in…
Rebels with all the wrong causes
No one has been glueing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men…
Please, won’t someone think of the gender-fluid sportspeople?
Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any more ridiculous, hang onto your hats folks, saddle up across the…
Dear Dr Bandt, if countries don’t buy our coal it doesn’t mean they’ll become carbon free
In the absence of Australian consumers having any actual influence on historical global climate variations, Greens MP for Melbourne Adam…
Climate cranks turn up the heat
Climate hysteria is increasing in intensity at the rate that alarmists claim extreme weather events are increasing thanks to burning…
Care about China’s Uighurs? You must be a white racist cultural imperialist
China is very touchy today about criticism of its inhumane rights regime, but who else managed to miss this truly…
Water crisis? What water crisis?
Australia may be the “land of drought and flooding rains”, but that is no excuse to mismanage abundance and utilise…
Impeachment inflames Trump Derangement Syndrome
After the media’s coverage of the August El Paso mass shootings and as the impeachment process unfolds, it is becoming…
The left’s ‘tyranny of tolerance’ means we need religious freedom laws
As Attorney-General Christian Porter aims to bring his Religious Discrimination Bill before Parliament in the first week of December, critics…
First Tibet. Then Xinjiang. Next Hong Kong?
Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The Xinjiang Papers — confirms previous accounts of the…
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