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Hypocrisy on steroids
Former UK Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption argued from near the start of the Covid pandemic that what democratic governments…
The eunuch premier
The Eunuch Premier is no more. On Saturday last, the Liberals’ fourth NSW Premier in twelve years was dispatched from…
15 minute cities: burning to the ground
Are this century’s ideological peasants finally revolting? It certainly seems that way after residents set fire to road block ‘planters’ which…
Aukus is out of the bag
Aukus is out of the bag. The Albanese government has committed Australia to spend nearly $370 billion over the next…
Blame politicians, not teachers
Our political elite are to blame for our educational malaise, not our educators… At the start of another academic year,…
Free power for the … rich?
Last year Mitcham Council, in the leafy south-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, declared a climate emergency. They proudly announced that they were…
Cultural domination: why the left is obsessed with shouting ‘Nazi’!
Some of you may know 16th century poet, John Donne, whose famous body of work, The Holy Sonnets, explored a crippling…
A backdoor revolution?
‘Albanese is convinced the Voice will pass,’ writes Dennis Shanahan in The Australian. If so, the consequential conclusion of the…
The unsafe Safeguard Mechanism
And so, the Greens have joined the ALP in imposing additional carbon taxes on the top 215 greenhouse gas emitting…
The Liberal Party and its lost cause for liberalism
Another nail in the coffin for the Liberal Party. What a travesty that we have lost New South Wales, too,…
False flags: Deeming, Pesutto, and the absurdity of Woketoria
A trans flag flies out the front of the Victorian Parliament, proudly announcing that we have no meaningful political opposition in…
A diet of political insects
Speccie Editor Rowan Dean has already described the New South Wales election perfectly in this morning’s leading article. His remarks must…
The psychology of moral evasion
I heard the term ‘severe climate anxiety’ again today. It was reportedly used as a defence to help someone achieve…
Annihilated
Since about 2016, the Liberal Party has decided to abandon its statement of principles, ‘We Believe’, which espouses ideals such…
Victoria needs Voltaire
So modern and fabulous we think we are… But it was the French philosopher of the Enlightenment period, Voltaire, who…
New Zealand shows us how the Voice will work
There were two important announcements on Thursday March 16, concerning the question that will be asked at the Voice to…
Conservative Australians should be very angry
John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a…
Let the new feminism speak
Let Women Speak is just what it sounds like, an event aimed at giving women a platform. Anyone who shows…
Theologian Thunberg and the pseudo-religion
Imagine that: it seems that Greta Thunberg is now a top theologian…? Yes, I realise that honorary degrees are usually…
The trans counter-counter protest
On Saturday morning last week, the Save Our Children (SOC) coalition, which included Christian Lives Matter (CLM) supporters, gathered at…
Love diversity, equity, and inclusion – or else
A decade ago, when I returned to University in my home state of Queensland to train as a teacher, a…
Social media: radicalising the West into the climate cult?
Facebook users are aware of the suffocating control the platform exerted over the Covid narrative. The Silicon Valley giant became…
Trust is a big fat nothing burger
I was back at the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the opener of the 2023 AFL Season. This time last year,…
The powerful politics of Covid vaccines
When did Pfizer accumulate the 94 cases which would have qualified for the primary endpoint (the evaluable efficacy population) for…
The activism industry
The activist professional caravan has moved on. Hitting the social media headlines in 2017, the #MeToo movement disrupted the community…
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