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‘Online Safety’ legislation is not about protecting children
Every time a politician tries to sell the idea of internet censorship, they wrap its wolfish features in the fluffy…
Scott Morrison’s new book: an odyssey in hypocrisy?
Scott Morrison is writing a book. Plans for Your Good: A Prime Minister’s Testimony of God’s Faithfulness, is the title. It’ll…
Winning the peace
‘This … is … a … war!’ declared the noxious, and putative Senator, Lidia Thorpe. And she’s right. It’s been…
Del Noce and eroticism
Why are children and teenagers being indoctrinated with neo-Marxist-inspired radical gender and sexuality theory? Why are transwomen cancelling women’s rights…
‘An honour and a privilege’ to leave Victoria drowning in debt
In the early afternoon on a glorious Spring day in Melbourne, Victoria’s 48th Premier made his announcement. Needless to say,…
Daniel Andrews resigns: good riddance!
As of 5pm tomorrow afternoon, Victoria’s longest-serving Labor Premier, Daniel Andrews, will be gone. He has announced his intention to…
We need a voice on immigration: Conservatives must win this battle
‘Chase too many rabbits, you’ll catch none,’ as the old saying goes. The right in Australia will soon be putting…
The presumption of innocence
The Times has published a piece of almost 7,000 words outlining detailed and extensive allegations from women about the behaviour of…
Corporate Australia has a problem: the demise of the anti-communist unions
The particular content and style of political boot-licking that is a feature of today’s Australian corporate environment can be understood…
Why Australia is saying ‘No’ to the Voice, and ‘Yes’ to something better
The Voice is slumping in the polls and falling further behind. The referendum appears hopelessly lost with less than three…
Scientists ‘shocked’ and ‘alarmed’ at what’s in the mRNA shots
Early in 2023, genomics scientist Kevin McKernan made an accidental discovery. While running an experiment in his Boston lab, McKernan…
‘Our ABC’ was, and still is, a disgrace
Almost all my friends with daughters, have convinced me that girls need never go to drama college, as acting is…
Malcolm Roberts: The Voice is a test of Australia’s moral strength
There are periods in history when a nation is tested. Revolutionary activists promise popularity to leaders with floundering polls in…
Mestizo Australia
Reflecting on the centenary of Federation in 2001, the late Australian historian, John Hirst, imagined Australia in 2051: The marrying…
The Voice of unreason: no easy way out of this mess
The Voice will likely fail. Possibly at referendum, but, if it succeeds at clearing that hurdle, it will fail in…
Rope-a-dope: conventional protest as cover for the real revolt
The governance mechanisms in Australia, and the West more broadly, are so manifestly corrupt that they are beyond salvage. The…
Cheerless, friendless, broke – Victoria in 2023
The decrepit state of Victoria in 2023 is far, far worse than it was when Labor was dramatically booted from…
Cometh the hour, cometh the woman
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in a nation’s history, when a new star is born in the political…
Naught for crosses? Ticks are just as ambiguous
It is disappointing that the Federal Court ruled on Wednesday, September 20, that a tick on the Voice referendum ballot…
On the question of Aboriginal sovereignty
‘There’ll be plenty of people saying the next thing is a treaty. Now I think, of all of the absurdities…
What’s that you mean by ‘Diversity’?
One thing that is now undeniably clear is that virtually all of our elites who, with tedious regularity, espouse the…
Powerless advice or powerful instruction?
At the Press Club last week, Senator Jacinta Price asked the question that I have been asking for over a…
Who wants the WHO anyway?
Australians have until 11.59 pm Sunday 24 September 2023 to voice their objections to proposed changes to international law which would…
Acknowledgements of Country, smoking ceremonies, and Australia’s austerity problem
Australia has an austerity problem. The country, which once prided itself on its larrikinism and self-determination, has been so admonished…
Dear Employer: leave my ‘personal development’ alone
In a glass office building that overlooked Elizabeth Quay and the Swan River, my two senior team leaders sat me…
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