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The Spec Oz has been Zucked by Facebook
If you’re wondering where we are on Facebook today, we’ve been told to get Zucked. We used a cropped version…
Who’s going to call out the reverse sexism deniers?
Round and round in lopsided circles they twirl. The loopy, loony left have absolutely no idea what true equality looks…
Christmas, no – but happy, happy Ramadan
The Australian Greens like to troll the conservatives around the time of religious holidays. It’s all good and harmless fun,…
Energy policy as shameful as the Soviet’s
“I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the…
Time to drain the China lobby swamp
“Where have all the grown-ups gone when it comes to China policy?” exclaimed Geoff Raby last year, in a newspaper…
The Arrogant Broadcasting Corporation
It seems that Emma Alberici, the ABC’s chief economic correspondent, has just been schooled. According to The Australian, Alberici proceeded…
Gaza’s slide into violence, poverty and despair
Sustained violence in protests along a series of staging points on the Gazan border with Israel has been deliberately orchestrated…
The Grievance Olympics: trans vs Muslim
Across the fetid Detroit River, in Windsor, Ontario, the Grievance Olympics is underway. Who will win? In one corner: The owner of…
The Climate Inquisition burns a heretic
Back in 2016, when I asked Peter Ridd if he would write a chapter for the book I was editing…
What does the church stand for?
Last week’s Met Gala in New York raised some eyebrows, focusing, as it did, on the connection between high fashion…
When’s the ABC going to sic the #metoo mob onto Paul McCartney
With the western world awash with #metoo movements, and men’s attempts at intimate relationships with women stalling under feminist pressure,…
Lifeline: so what happens next?
Clearly, something went horribly wrong at Lifeline for anyone at the organisation to even contemplate inviting extremist feminist activist Clementine…
Abortion: not left or right, just wrong
Labor MP Penny Sharpe’s Safe Access to Reproductive Health Clinics Bill was read in the upper house of the New…
Medical research belongs in private hands
Researchers have a lot to celebrate after last week’s federal budget, with Canberra announcing that it will increase investment in the…
Life after Alfie’s death
The Hippocratic oath that all doctors swear imposes on them a duty to knowingly do no harm. Recently I engaged…
How mollycoddling made our moaning millennials
Millennials have been sold a lie. We were told by our parents that we could be anything we wanted. Everyone…
The problem with the ‘fearless feminist’ narrative
On the morning of May 11, seven family members lost their lives in a murder-suicide on a farm property East…
Should we really be spying on our children?
As a Member of the New South Wales Parliament, I often have the opportunity to participate in various committees and…
Ten religious reasons against climate change
Many in politics, as well as in the media, are unaware that there is a growing number of Christians who…
Downer and not out in Mayo
While Mad March may be over, the festival of democracy continues in South Australia. Off the back of a downright…
Check your privilege, Yassmin
An articulate, tertiary-educated professional with a specialist degree and access to multiple media platforms to make themselves heard throws a…
Show me the ‘himpathy’
The Sydney Writer’s Festival sounds like a right old barrel of positivity and empowerment. Continually oppressed attendees miraculously managed to…
George, Abbott and Howard were both Liberals too
The contest for the philosophical soul of the Liberal Party seems as old as the hills when one recalls the…
A Lifeline for true equality
Just when it seemed all hope might be lost to the left, a flower burst through the concrete. The petition…
Losing Kokoda
The ‘blackbirding curse’ is as damaging to Papua New Guinea’s adventure tourism industry as the ‘resource curse’ is to mining…
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This Bill is a disgrace
Libs must fight now for free speech. Or lose the election.
The white man’s burden
Critical race theory is racist and deliberately foments division
