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Free speech on campus, actions are louder than words
Last week the University of Sydney announced that it would avoid taking an official position on the Voice to Parliament.…
Paul Fletcher, the father of Australian censorship?
A lot of perfectly warranted criticism has been aimed at Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party over their proposed Misinformation…
Albo’s first 44 words committed Australia to the Uluru Statement
Within the first 44 words uttered by the new Prime Minister of Australia on May 21 last year, Anthony Albanese…
A Victorian odyssey with a long way to go
It is becoming clearer every day that the Andrews government in Victoria has a propensity to bite off a bit…
Have universities hushed-up academics over the Voice?
Academic freedom is supposed to be sacrosanct at universities. However, the Voice referendum has exposed it as a sham. Universities…
‘No’ artwork free to use
Now that the Voice To Parliament referendum has been called, please feel free to use, with our permission, the Spectator…
On the streets of Ukraine
Within 30 seconds of arriving and getting into a taxi, an air raid siren went off across the city. The…
The right to bite (ouch!)
Political correctness rules our lives these days and while I’m all for equal opportunity, what about the right to bite…
An incompetent Qantas is preoccupied with politics
There are few companies more conspicuously preoccupied with politics than Qantas. Maybe it’s impossible to be a national carrier without…
The State of Israel and The Voice
One of the most tenuous arguments in favour for The Voice was recently made by Mark Leibler. Speaking at an…
Illiterate, innumerate, and scared: be disappointed, but not surprised
Why would anyone be surprised at the latest NAPLAN results? Yes, they are disappointing, but the amount of hand-wringing expressed…
The NIMBY slur
The term ‘NIMBY’ – an acronym for ‘Not In My Back Yard’ – has become the preferred slur of politicians,…
Don’t kill cash
308,000 people within the United Kingdom are backing Great Britain News’ feisty campaign to keep cash. The Don’t Kill Cash July 4 movement…
Snowy 2.0? Give Us a Break!
I’m very proud of my heritage as a first-generation Australian. I also celebrate our world record, enduring ancient culture and…
The pushback against the war on the West
Amongst the post-modern rot that infests most of our universities’ humanities faculties stands one small institution that proudly focuses on…
Winston Peters is no Kiwi Messiah
Our New Zealand regular contributor, Amy Brooke, usually talks sense, and her article in this week’s magazine, about identity and…
What if the ‘out of Africa’ theory is wrong?
Those who have lived through the last two decades will be well acquainted with the increasing rigidity applied to scientific…
Ticks and crosses: the right strategy
The Electoral Commissioner is correct when he says there can only be one space in which to write ‘Yes’ or…
The astonishingly woke Australian Academy of Science
The Australian Academy of Science (AAS) recently released a report Reef Futures Roundtable, which is ostensibly about the doomed Great Barrier…
Why are governments spending so much money policing our speech?
The Albanese government’s attempt to make itself the arbiter of truth with its Orwellian ‘Misinformation’ Bill has thrown a spotlight…
Gippsland’s native timber industry: saving the Leadbeater’s Possum endangers the Sumatran Tiger
The Leadbeater’s Possum is critically endangered and logging the Mountain Ash forests in which it lives is a real threat…
Hipkins insists there’s ‘nothing to fear’ in co-governance
It can’t be long now until a supporter of co-governance repeats President Roosevelt’s famous exhortation at his first inauguration during…
Conservatism in a modern world?
What does it mean to be a conservative? One interpretation characterises conservatism as ossified, backward-looking, and incapable of change. In…
NAPLAN results offer proof: Australia’s education system is failing
If any more evidence were needed that the way we educate our children needs comprehensive reform, last week’s NAPLAN results…
The golden goose causes great harm
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are made up of many different and distinct groups, each with their own culture, customs,…
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