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Court win for Christian foster care applicants is a victory for common sense and a fair go
In 2017, West Australian couple Byron and Keira Hordyk were rejected as ‘unsafe’ by fostering agency, Wanslea Family Services, to…
Deadly Western trends
Australia is about as far away from the war on Ukraine as one can get, but this week it showed…
Former Liberal MP John Hyde awarded OAM
The Mannkal Economic Education Foundation has released a statement congratulating former Western Australian Liberal MP, John Hyde, for his wonderful…
The Australia Day debate: an exercise in puritanical Gnosticism
Michael Mansell, an Aboriginal Elder from the Aboriginal Land council Tasmania and secretary of the independence movement The Aboriginal Provisional…
Immigration to integration: a personal account
Effective integration is not easy for a migrant. When I entered Australia about twenty-five years ago, I felt like a…
Energy chaos: the shape of things to come
Australian governments have made energy policies focused on achieving higher shares of renewable energy that they claim is the cheapest…
A (desperate) town called ‘Alice’
The video records of what is happening in Australia’s red centre are disturbing at so many levels. This is a…
NSW cannot fix the housing crisis by killing rent bidding
Like a Miss Universe contestant declaring her audacious ambition to end world hunger, the government is telling us that they…
Albo’s Alice alcohol back-flip
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dealt his leadership a catastrophic blow on Tuesday when he proved – beyond all reasonable…
Breaking the silence: do mRNA vaccine harms outweigh benefits?
As someone who has always questioned the safety and efficacy of the Covid ‘injectables’, I’ve thought long and hard about…
Wasn’t football about stoicism?
Has football been taken over by rank sentimentality and anti-masculine virtue-signalling?
Decolonising ends up where, exactly?
Before the Christmas holidays, one of my mates jokingly said something about ‘soon you’ll be writing about the Left’s war…
Harry Windsor’s fickle fame and the death of celebrity cults
The Duke of Sussex’s memoir caused a media frenzy in the weeks leading up to its official publication, with commentators…
Net Zero sail-powered cargo ships that transport … coal
Mitsui OSK Lines, one of the world’s largest shipping companies (with 698 vessels carrying 50.8 million deadweight tons), has re-launched –…
Is the Australian Constitution fit for purpose?
Reflecting on the demise of the Ancien Régime in France in 1790, the great English Parliamentarian Edmund Burke warned his contemporaries…
How the Liberal Party wins women back
If the Liberal Party wants to survive it must expand its base. The membership needs to see a rapid influx…
My mother and Sharia law
My mum was forced to marry my dad when she was only twelve and started childbearing at the age of…
‘No’ to Covid amnesty
We appear to be reaching a tipping point on Covid governance as high-profile advocate after high-profile advocate of masks, mandates…
Australia Day is marked for death
With the proclamation that local councils across the country may choose to hold citizenship ceremonies on days other than January…
Australia’s education crisis of ‘dumbed-down twaddle’
As a year 12 student, school has been a common denominator in every aspect of my life for almost as…
Witch hunts are not ‘justice’
I knew it! And if we were all honest with ourselves, we knew it. There is an uncomfortable reason why…
Dutton wasted a gift-wrapped Albo
The Albanese regime made an enormous error last week when someone inside Labor’s PR team decided to carefully edit the…
Whose voices will be heard?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced soon after being elected that he would move a Constitutional amendment to include an Indigenous…
American Diary: love of the game
Cramming recently into a freezing New York Jets game, I was surprised to learn that, despite the National Football League…
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