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The Donald is MEGA: Making Earth Great Again
President Trump may not have had as a great success at the midterms as his diehard fans predicted, winning some…
Welcome to Rainbow Academy?
It seems that there are a significant number of people who are upset at the principals of thirty-four Anglican schools…
Victoria’s secret
Our federal parliamentarians – even Labor, since this is new territory – have been caught off-guard by reports that Victorian…
Are we really still the economic wonder down under?
Australia continues to gain international recognition for its exemplary economic performance and to be highlighted as a case study in…
Winning huge with The Donald
It is likely President Trump will record an unprecedented success in the midterm elections. Mid-term elections invariably go against the…
Qantas, Virgin and the difference between virtue-signalling and virtue
A war of words has erupted around Virgin’s announcement that they would give ex-servicemen and women priority boarding and in-flight…
“What if women went on a sex strike before the midterms?”
…and no one noticed? After the “Grab them by the ballot” nude photo shoot by “a diverse group of 10 Vermont women”, with…
Filly follies
KILL ALL FEMINISTS. ALL FEMINISTS MUST DIE. KILL ALL FEMINISTS. ALL FEMINISTS MUST DIE. I DIPPED A QUILL IN A…
Ballot-breakers
Whoever thought of this is a terrible person. I don’t even think it is a 4chan prank: A diverse group…
Thank you for your slogan, Virgin, but I’ll pass
“Calling all passengers with children and all defence members and military veterans, you may board now,” announced the heavily made-up,…
Goodbye old blue-ribbons, hello new heartland
The Liberal Party’s dramatic loss in the Wentworth by-election last month reveals an irreconcilable philosophical divide within the Party. Self-styled…
When the Left eats itself
Things have become so ridiculous in Western society that it’s difficult to come up with a scenario that could be…
Don’t even talk about the niqab?
We’re going very fast from “It’s illiberal to ban the niqab/ban the burqa” – a serious debate in itself –…
Yummy #MeToo
I fess up. I too have been called Yummy. Not, sadly, as a stand-alone noun but as an adjective in…
Literacy: a conservative value
Phonics is a way of teaching children to read that links the letters of the alphabet, syllables and words to…
The week in misandry
A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. Three girls…
Victoria votes: Tammany Hall v Keystone Kops
One week into the formal Victorian election campaign, and it’s becoming clear we have a contest between Labor’s Tammany Hall…
Faith schools need the right to hire and fire
In the hasty and overheated reaction to the leaked recommendations of the Ruddock review, pressure is building to remove the rights of…
The problem with white men
When life gives you Don Lemons, it’s time to switch off CNN: Translation: we have to stop demonising some people…
Logic creams milk levy criticism
The past fortnight has seen loud criticism of the milk price levy applied by supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths to assist…
Good luck with that religious freedom, ScoMo
Scott Morrison really has his work well and truly cut if he intends to protect our religious freedom without antagonising…
Sorry, Australia, but Joko says “no”
Australia does not have the permission of Indonesia’s President to relocate our Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem.…
Fresh foreign threats to free speech on universities
The growing concern about academic freedom and free speech on university campuses typically relates to illiberal student activists shutting down…
What’s Labor got against life?
I was brought up as a devout Roman Catholic, but one of the reasons why I left the Church was…
The social media giants have stopped even pretending
Sure, they are private businesses and so they can do whatever they want with their users but at least in…
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