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Over the cliff we go
George Orwell wrote 1984 and Animal Farm in 1949 and 1945 respectively, a time when the future – our present – seemed such…
A government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, and for the bureaucrats
When describing democracy, former American President Abraham Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address in 1863, said it was a ‘government…
Will the Lehrmann verdict end trial by media?
The Bruce Lehrmann-Brittany Higgins saga reached its conclusion this week with Federal Court Justice Michael Lee handing down his judgment…
Albanese’s Net Zero protectionism
Mr Albanese is announcing a new protectionism with the government driving a ‘new competition’ approach centred on a Net Zero…
Neutrality as a weapon to destroy religious freedom
The recently released report of the Law Reform Commission, entitled Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination…
The Voice zombie lumbers on in South Australia
It just can’t be killed, this Zombie thing called The Voice. In South Australia, despite two in every three citizens…
Henry Ford and the genius of bitcoin
In 1729, the French philosopher Voltaire wrote: ‘All paper money returns to its intrinsic value: zero.’ Since then, over 500…
Stopping the inflation contagion
CPI took a rapid jump down in March in Europe and now sits at 2.4 per cent, whilst the UK…
Centrelink at work: making life miserable for pensioners
I went down to our local Centrelink office the other day, the second such visit in a few months. It…
Swiss grannies upstage Greta as court rules on climate ‘rights’
There is a mountain of irony in a group of four elderly women in Switzerland being concerned about the threat…
Mt Warning: reopen awe and wonder to all Australians
Mount Warning is widely regarded as the most ecologically beautiful National Park in NSW. Most of the nearby towns (like…
Brazil’s bureaucrats bully Twitter
Brazil is on the brink of banning Twitter, with its bureaucrats accusing Elon Musk of breaking Brazilian law. The order…
Agenda47 against decline: flying cars and Schedule F
What Trump's futurist policy agenda could teach Australia
Double Shot S2E9 Victoria’s Voice makes tax racist! Julie Sladden, Rod Lampard, David Flint
The war against free speech heats up. Rod Lampard weighs in on Elon Musk and all the money he uses…
Lessons from the campaign trail
There’s nothing quite like cold water swimming, and for this ‘extreme’ sport, Tasmania is the place to be. Getting in…
What would JK Rowling say about the Tickle v Giggle case?
At the same time Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, is challenging highly contentious gender ideology in Scotland’s anti-hate speech law,…
Dear Senator Wong, recognising a terrorist state is wrong
Senator Wong’s recent call to recognise Palestine, which is controlled by the proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas, was supported by Senator…
CEO class strikes out again by spruiking for males in women’s sport
As I woke this week to news that World Netball had become the latest global sports governing body to step…
Educating our educators on the Enlightenment
To be a Western man means to be part of the continuing debate between Jerusalem and Athens
The new peace that is no peace
The visit to Australia by China’s Foreign Minister, H.E Wang Yi, reminded us of how the strong exact what they…
JK Rowling stared down hate speech laws
Recently, Scotland has been met with one of the worst pieces of legislation in the nation’s history, and nobody is…
The Conformist – cancel culture and fascism
Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 masterpiece, adapted from the 1951 Alberto Moravia novel, is a case study in conformism under a fascist…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E10: Killing cash to murder freedom – Monica Smit, Pete Shmigel and Terry Barnes
The government’s mission to destroy cash is being done by proxy. Knowing that legislation to outright ban it proved unpopular…
Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident)
Since being offered a largely pointless and doomed-to-fail role as UN special envoy to Myanmar, the former Liberal Foreign Minister,…
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