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Dr Di Natale’s odd prescription for employment
Richard Di Natale’s inner-city industrial relations thought bubble is precisely the sort of thing you’d expect from a federal Greens…
Sorry Matilda, I don’t need no trigger warning
New Matilda has just published a lovely little piece by Michael Brull spitting on the grave of Bill Leak, entitled RIP Bill…
Campus censorship ratchets up
Free intellectual inquiry is under serious threat at universities across the Anglosphere. At the very places designed to inspire a battle of…
The great renewable energy swindle
As with all swindles, the great renewable energy swindle has ended with the sad realisation that we’ve been had. Having…
In defence of the Romanovs: the centenary of the February Revolution
A century ago today, as the Imperial Train sat impounded at a provincial station 180 miles from Petrograd, Russia’s last…
Left-wing intolerance must be called out
The Twitterati outcry over two democratically elected Members of Parliament discussing important national issues over a beer shows the absolute…
Daniel Andrews: one-term blunder?
Things have been grim for the Andrews ALP government for some time. Victorians voted in the Andrews Labor Government off…
My Bill
I met Bill Leak just the once. It was at a dinner party; my old boss was heading back overseas after a wonderful term of service…
Punk rock conservatism? Pretty vacant…
My dear darling Daisy, Thank you for your lovely letter. Please understand, when I say you’re not a conservative, it’s…
It’s quality all the way at Michelle Guthrie’s ABC
Broadcasting: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Michelle Guthrie. Her five-year contract: to explore strange new worlds, to…
Beer, the bible, boycotts and bigotry
Ok, let me clear my glass from the outset, I don’t drink beer. And no, it has nothing to do…
It was the Hanson wot won it
So the WA Liberal Government did a deal with Pauline Hanson and it cost them the election. Right? Labor can’t…
Have we outgrown Yes, Minister?
Part of the implicit deal between the ruling class and the ruled is that people are willing to overlook moderate…
The bleakest death of the year
Once in lower primary school I foolishly played keepies with my favourite marble, a large, sapphire coloured “Tom Bowler”, the…
Thank you, Colin Barnett
As the dust settles on the Western Australian election result, let’s not forget that for 8 ½ years Colin Barnett…
Never mind the bollocks, here’s the punk rock right
The term ‘conservatism is the new punk’ has been thrown around a lot recently. Some have embraced the notion; happy to celebrate…
Is 18c now still just a fringe issue?
The sudden death of Bill Leak has been harrowing. You only realise how much you rely on cultural warriors when…
Fight back for Bill with a free speech commissioner
The left more than evidently know how to use the power of the state to achieve their political objectives. The…
Goodbye, Uncle Bill
While Bill Leak’s talents as an artist and satirist are plain to see, the man also had a great gift…
In memoriam: Bill Leak, free speech warrior
He wrote about it, talked about, put brush and pencil to paper about it and railed about it with wry…
It’s over
The Prime Minister must accept full responsibility for the political predicament facing the government and his leadership. Writing for the…
18c threatens young people
While much of the debate about section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act has focused on Andrew Bolt and Bill…
Will the government miss another free kick from the union movement?
Today thousands of CFMEU members across Australia took the day off work to march in solidarity with retail and hospitality…
The Jews of Asia?
For months I have been peddling my vociferous obsession with Korea onto unsuspecting friends and colleagues. What began as an…
Hanson’s apology shows strength, not weakness
They’re so busy laying traps for her, and delighting when she becomes ensnared, that leftist bullies are entirely in denial…
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