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Australian values: are we all on the same page?
This week, the federal government will disclose its planned changes to Australian citizenship. The legislation being presented to parliament will…
Go home, Nanny, you’re drunk
Thomas Jefferson in 1776, said ‘We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that…
Emmanuel Macron, the new Barack Obama
Eleven years ago, the US media started to produce glowing, servile reports about the junior senator from Illinois named Barack…
Thirteen reasons Jeremy Corbyn is a scumbag and a moral midget
In little less than a year, Jeremy Corbyn went from a -40 per cent net favourability rating against Theresa May’s…
Saudi Arabia: people in glasshouses shouldn’t throw grenades
A coalition of Arab nations lead by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have cut their ties with Qatar over the latter state’s…
The war on St Pauls is a war on the West
In a move that will surprise no one, the leftist media has once more targeted, cornered, and attacked an elite institution…
Greenpeace: criminal rabble or charity?
Why does a “charity” that promotes criminal behaviour still enjoy tax-deductible status? Early on May 29, Greenpeace activists illegally trespassed…
Islamist broken windows
When Rudolph Giuliani was mayor of New York City, he took an approach to criminology called “Broken Windows”, generating respect…
Euthanasia: toxic messages feeding fear
I wrote recently about a play that ran in Melbourne called The Magnolia Tree and how the notion of being…
May made Malcolm’s mistakes
Prime Minister May’s election campaign succeeded in the near impossible through turning a projected 100 plus seat majority into minority…
Honey Badgers make me cringe
I want to believe. I really, really do. I want to believe that all this post-conservative ‘New Right’ stuff. I…
Malcolm and May: separated at birth?
July 2, 2016. Stable government. Fourteen seats lost. A majority of one. June 8, 2017. Strong, stable leadership in the…
Australia through Waleed Aly’s distorted lens
Just how many careers can Melbourne academic and media celebrity Waleed Aly cram into his day? Waleed, we now know, because his tag…
Six ways you’ve ruined your newspaper
From your favourite chipwrapper and mine. Vital news that demonstrates the importance of independent, quality media. Vital news that demonstrates…
An attack on Andrew Bolt — and all believers in free speech
I know Andrew Bolt moderately. For a time I appeared on The Bolt Report. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting…
The climate policy “discussion” sham
Hastily conceived panel discussions are seldom a good idea, yet that’s precisely what the Brookings Institute rushed into following President…
We are the boiling frog
The growing influence of the state throughout the western world, buttressed by technological development and a crisis of confidence in…
School funding: time to cut out the middleman
A few days ago, I received the latest edition of the ‘The Butler Bulletin’ in the mail from my local…
The first Brexit
In coming days the world will watch the UK elections and ponder the result. And following on, inevitably, people will think…
As an Australian Muslim I am sick of the lack of leadership from our clerics
The radicalisation of Muslims is the bastard child of Islam. The elephant in the room we refuse to talk about.…
Another day, another stuff-up from The Age
Ask yourself. You’re an editor at what still likes to think of itself as a paper of record in a…
Violence. Blame. Can we make our minds up please?
Hands up, who’s confused? What is our national response to violence meant to be? We have a real problem with…
Time for Muslims to get angry
The only plausible emotion at this point is anger. Anger towards those who have sought to silence this problem for…
Gillian Triggs: the final farewell
“I can’t believe it, Tim. Only five years into the job and my tenure as President of the Australian Human…
Nothing to do with … something
Another week, another terrorist attack. And the hills of social media are alive with the sounds of often well meaning…
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