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The gift of the far left
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
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
As the term of the Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane comes to an end, it is worth reflecting on his…
“They Day” Mayday
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Tampon tax cut won’t stop votes flowing from Coalition
Treasurer Scott Morrison has bowed to the agitation of vocal feminists and the likes of GetUp! and is dropping GST…
It’s not hate when you’re attacking white people?
In not so breaking news, Newspaper of Record, AKA The New York Times, has been in a tiny spot of…
Big government still a big burden
Australian taxpayers are struggling to carry the burden of ever-expanding government spending. Before to the Whitlam government of 1972-75, total…
After euthanasia, then what?
Peter van Onselen was right when he wrote in The Weekend Australian recently that there is an even more significant…
Gender madness has lost the plot
Where are all the adults? Who is going to stand up to all this gender madness and say, “enough is…
John Winston and Winston’s Kiwi komedy kapers
The reaction of the New Zealand government to a speech given by our cricket-tragic ex-prime minister, John Howard to the…
Dumb and dumber
The venerable and much respected American columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer famously noted that to understand US politics you have…
No enthusiasm for enthusiastic consent reforms
Like most people watching the I am that girl story on Four Corners a few months ago I felt enormous sympathy for…
Going the full Kafka on free speech
It was Franz Kafka—the famous twentieth-century German writer—who once said, “Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of…
How Lauren Southern exposes a double standard
Activist reporter Lauren Southern who is currently touring Australia with popular alt-media philosopher Stefan Molyneux, was warned by police not…
The kids aren’t all left
Last week Elin Ersson, a 21-year-old Swedish student, halted the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker from Sweden by refusing…
Politicians can’t keep ignoring violence by women
When news headlines keep underlining a narrative to be false, we have a problem. When politicians are too afraid to…
Is Alan Joyce reprogramming your mind?
When I’m flying on one of those so-last-century planes that doesn’t have a screen mounted in the seat in front…
There’s still time to avoid Coalition carnage
If you want to know why the government is in deep trouble after Super Saturday, go no further than the…
The case against public sector affirmative action
Affirmative action is perhaps one of the more polarising phrases to enter our political lexicon in the last few years, which…
How’s that dissing the del-cons going?
So we’re now well into year three of the Team Turnbull Labor Lite experiment as Malcolm Turnbull – a big…
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