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In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.

All the news that fits the agenda

13 August 2018 6:55 pm

Three stories over the past few days should have been huge. Instead, two of them made just a passing blip…

Time to put free speech in the Constitution

13 August 2018 3:00 pm

I want your help. I want your help to give we the people the most important power there is, one that…

Euthanasia laws: inherently unsafe

13 August 2018 11:17 am

A doctor was called to the bedside of a patient with lung cancer because she was in pain. At that…

What we can learn from tax cuts and Trump

13 August 2018 8:35 am

The Trump administration’s liberalisation of the United States economy has seen growth accelerate to four per cent for the second…

The Great Barrier Money Magnet

12 August 2018 4:22 pm

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has become a money magnet for those with green political agendas. The climax of this green…

Do we have an ADF gender dissembler?

12 August 2018 8:53 am

Forget about all the recent furore over the politically correct ‘They Day’ fiasco, where the approximately 10,000 staff of the…

Will climate change make you neck yourself?

11 August 2018 1:01 pm

To go with all the forecasts of floods, fires, pestilence and plague from climate catastrophists we have a new warning…

The renovation memory hole

10 August 2018 3:41 pm

Anyone hip enough to know inner-suburban Melbourne knows the Gatwick Hotel. It is (or was) that sleazy, abandoned, druggie flophouse…

Free speech on campus comes cost free – for Pirate Pete lefties

10 August 2018 12:12 pm

University campuses are supposed to be places of robust debate, places where a contest of ideas can be held with…

SHY’s victimhood card is declined

10 August 2018 7:48 am

After tearful displays and fighting talk on The Project and anywhere else that would give her a platform, Sarah Hanson-Young…

Alex Jones and the new social media censorship

9 August 2018 9:23 pm

In the wake of Alex Jones’ banning from Facebook, YouTube and Apple the outrage has been palpable. And that is…

Vaping: why the status quo is not an option

9 August 2018 4:56 pm

If you work in the city, or in one of our regional town centres, you’ve probably crossed paths with someone…

The Ruby Rose Batwoman PC Comics special

9 August 2018 12:30 pm

Forget about the Australian Defence Force getting rid of gender-neutral pronouns, or the inequity of transgender athletes competing in sporting…

The Victorian Liberal Punch and Judy preselection show

9 August 2018 7:35 am

Last week, the Financial Review highlighted how utterly underprepared the Liberal party is compared to Labor in contesting marginal seats.…

Blinkered self-publicist feminists aren’t helping violence

8 August 2018 7:46 am

Self-publicist feminists have been keeping themselves busy churning out their gender biased myths about violence. On Monday Tracey Spicer wrote…

Free speech now comes with security costs?

7 August 2018 6:07 pm

La Trobe University is encouraging censorious behaviour by charging special security fees for an event with commentator Bettina Arndt hosted…

The gift of the far left

7 August 2018 3:19 pm

The far left elements of New Zealand are cheering and slapping each other on the back after successfully denying Lauren…

Guessing game population predictions are not good government

7 August 2018 11:31 am

Australia’s population clock will tick over to 25 million today — more than 20 years ahead of schedule if we…

Tim Soutphommasane goes, the racism industry remains

7 August 2018 7:39 am

As the term of the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane comes to an end, it is worth reflecting on his…

“They Day” Mayday

6 August 2018 7:18 pm

The Victorian government has staged its latest attempt at imposing a gender-neutral newspeak on the public service. After subjecting public…

Tim Soutphommasane’s unending hypocrisy

6 August 2018 4:35 pm

Tim Soutphommasane is coming to the end of his directionless term as Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner. No doubt both he…

Official: lefties are less tolerant

6 August 2018 12:55 pm

A fascinating new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: In a new study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers found that self-identified liberals were…

Australian unis: no thinking allowed

6 August 2018 7:46 am

If you’re still in any doubt as to the insidious influence of the Left’s long march through nearly all of…

Weekend reading, weekend thoughts

5 August 2018 9:56 am

While The Weekend Australian has declined in size, it is still of a sufficient size to waste one’s entire weekend; unless…

It’s not hate when you’re attacking white people? Part II

4 August 2018 5:06 pm

I wrote yesterday about “The New York Times” hiring a Korean-American anti-white bigot to their editorial board. Andrew Sullivan now provides the ideological context…