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Psychology’s war on men
American pharmaceutical companies aren’t allowed to advertise on Australian TV unless you’re talking over-the-counter cold tablets or pain killers. Which…
GetUp’s child slavery
In or around 1212, according to legend, bands of children from northern Europe led by a boy Stephen of Cloyes…
What’s woke this week
The corporate world has been woking up a storm this week with cultural appropriation and socially just ice cream hitting…
Beware the ‘bill of rights’ trap when debating freedom of religion
Two recent events have exposed some serious misunderstandings on both the right and left about how Australia’s human rights protections…
What sex is your penguin?
Humanity has anthropomorphised animals since time immemorial, from hunters-gatherers to Disney, so no wonder that contemporary madness is slowly seeping into…
Bushfire sense and nonsense
Bushfires are normal events in this season in tropical and subtropical latitudes of the southern hemisphere – in Australia, Africa…
Understanding Hong Kong’s fight
Most commentary on the Hong Kong protests from Western news outlets rightly champion the pro-democracy cause and scorn the ruthlessness…
Asking for the sisterhood: where have all the good men gone?
Equality between the sexes, so good in theory, doesn’t necessarily deliver in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the…
Italy: la dolce vita, le sistema disordinato
Holidaying in Italy is like wearing a mini skirt without knickers: the rules of the Australian nanny-state are cast aside…
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…
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