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The ABC’s credibility has vanished beneath the waves, not Venice
The ABC has clearly given up on any pretence of any claim to rational, balanced and impartial journalism. This fact…
Emmo calls out Twitter, lynch mob madness explodes
Craig Emerson is a former federal Labor minister and parliamentarian who represented the Queensland seat of Rankin from 1998 to…
Two years on from “marriage equality”, basic freedoms are under threat
As the nation today marks the second anniversary of the vote to redefine marriage, we remain in the grip of…
Ok, millennial?
The young and the hopeless: A new survey consisting of 2,000 millennials (ages 22-38) has revealed some troubling statistics regarding…
What’s woke this week?
The world has ridden a tsunami of woke this past week. It came crashing in from all corners of the…
Wheeling in the circus
The inaugural Broadside festival of feminist ideas — yes, that festival behind that episode of Q&A — ran last weekend…
Transgender adventure in Dan Andrewstan? Careful, you just might find it
“Transgender people should be given hormonal treatment and sex-reassignment surgery on demand without a diagnosis or assessment by a psychiatrist,…
SBS and the case of the missing bushfire story
Yesterday I tweeted a quote from an SBS News article from 2013 which featured top bushfire researcher David Packham calling…
Why school exams matter
Undoubtedly, the Higher School Certificate is hard. But final exams are not intended to be easy — to be some…
Labor said ‘if you don’t like our policies, don’t vote for us’, yet still needed an election review?
Labor really didn’t need an army of strategists to find out why it lost the widely touted unlosable May election.…
Exhibitionist feminism: an infantile disorder
The majority of the time I dismiss far-left exhibitionist feminists as “fembots” as they are utterly incapable of original thought,…
How woke is your tote?
As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” For starters, they…
Jacinta Price forced to beg activists: don’t exploit my nephew’s death
Activists inciting racial division and hatred have disrespected a grieving family’s wishes for calm and peace while investigations into the…
Hysteria heats up with wrong answer to an old problem
First Extinction Rebellion blocks traffic claiming that the world will end unless Australia shuts down all industry immediately, then the…
Perhaps we should all just ignore mad Auntie
It is now clear that none of our successive federal governments has the courage, willpower or intention to do anything…
Daniel Andrews corroboree of jobbery. Part II: the secret parliament
Polls have closed and 21 Aboriginal members have been elected to Victoria’s ‘First People’s Assembly’. The assembly will meet on…
Why lefties don’t get walls
Over the weekend, the world remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Even Italy’s Democratic Party…
Labor learns the limits of identity politics
As usual, Shakespeare said it best: The weight of this sad time we must obey Speak what we feel, not…
How abuse of violence orders corrupts our family law system
I have recently prepared my submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee regarding Australia’s Family Law System. It summarises a number…
The truth about those still defending Q&A
I sincerely wish I could say I was surprised by last Monday’s Q&A on our national broadcaster. I was not.…
Socialism: the inconvenient truth
For as long as socialism has been around, there have been critics of it. And rightly so. As Ronald Reagan…
Socialism: eat the rich, crap on the poor
Socialism. Mathematics. Only one is a science. And never the twain shall meet. Thirty years after the fall of the…
Q&A and the inalienable right to be batshit crazy
The right to go batshit crazy is one of those inalienable rights. Like the right to bear arms and the…
You’re concerned about my right to know? Look who’s talking
Was it really just last month that the mainstream media teamed up to advocate their own freedoms, covering their newspaper…
Monday’s Q&A: simply a sign of the size of our problem
If ever the Australian public and our politicians needed additional evidence of how biased, vulgar and politically correct woke the…
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