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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,…
Diary of an ‘Expert’ (She/Her) + boosters 100 per cent masked
Dear Diary, Well, it’s happened. Deep down I knew it might, but I still can’t believe it. Today, Chris Hipkins…
Albanese’s fact-checkers and truth police
The federal government’s proposed Misinformation and Disinformation Bill poses a serious threat to freedom of speech and expression in Australia. I’ve experienced…
Australia is ruled by ‘experts’
Politicians can’t seem to live without experts. Faced with technical complexity all around them – whether in public health, climate…
Not in my backyard! No one wants to look at offshore wind turbines
When wind farms were nothing more than an apocalypse-mongering salvation shouted from the lips of a distraught truanting European teenager,…
Listening is more than words
Whether you are a university student, a parent, or working your way up the business ladder, it is essential that…
Voice ruptures the bond
No, no, no! It’s not the lack of detail nor the promise of its permanence in the Constitution, nor that…
The Voice empowers bureaucracy over democracy
The Australian people will soon be asked through a national referendum to alter the Constitution to establish an Aboriginal and…
Alex Greenwich’s bill set to erase sex-based rights in NSW
On August 24, 2023 Alex Greenwich, independent gay MP for the inner-city electorate of Sydney, introduced his private member’s bill…
Defensive medicine and the pandemic of fear-stricken doctors
Healthcare has transformed over the last four or five decades revealing a gradual shift in the practice of medicine from…
Trust the crazy
I was certain I’d read the most ridiculous thing this week after grazing the ABC headline, Hikers urged to stop using…
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