In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
How to fix the teaching crisis: ban mobile phones, absolutely and completely
Thirty years ago I was teaching in a high school when a student brought in a very early mobile phone.…
The climate change debate: lessons from evolutionary psychology
One of the many perplexities of life is how some new scientific discoveries and insights quickly find their way into…
Live not by lies – climate edition
I used to correspond with Cardinal Pell. He was the only cleric in Australia who took a stand against the…
Worth fighting for
Germany could never have won the first world war. She was opposed by Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and eventually…
Hate speech or free speech? Balancing religious sensitivities with liberty
The New Zealand government’s most recent failed attempt to enact hate speech laws shows just how difficult it is to…
Is it time to defund public education?
For quite some time, I have been concerned about the attack upon private schools, and in particular, those who are…
The anti-anti-racism movement?
It is something of a rare delight to write positively about race relations in recent years. As such, these stories…
Caught between three scams: ‘a delicate environmental conundrum’
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mike Foley tells us that 20 per cent of development applications relating to proposals ‘threatening koala habitat’…
Science: prostituting itself for the luvvies
Hauling icebergs to Africa: could a bizarre plan to get drinking water actually work? It’s a headline so odd it…
Racist Labor?
Foreign Minister Penny Wong recently told an audience at King’s College in London that we should hear uncomfortable stories rather…
The lost generation: a global assault on children and young people
Last week, Australia’s children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, spoke passionately about the myriad impacts children and young people had endured due…
Can teaching be politically neutral?
Are people involved in a spiritual enterprise when they think, and therefore, when they teach? This might seem a far-fetched…
But, is it safe?
Older readers may remember a TV show on the ABC in the 1970s called The Inventors. It was a bit…
Democracy or minocracy?
If democracy is defined by majority rule, Australia is not a democracy; it’s a minocracy. The current Labor government attracted…
Oh dear! Vic Libs disenfranchise their own members
The Victorian division of the Liberal Party has done it again. Instead of going into the April 1, Aston by-election…
A Church without a purpose will be no Church at all
The Church of England, it seems, is hellbent on destroying itself from the inside out. Of the many objectionable suggestions…
Who will bat for the battler?
‘It’s not a house… it’s a home…’ Darryl Kerrigan, The Castle. It was the mid-1990s, economically, the hard times induced by…
Backsliding on Democracy: New Zealand knows it well
Australia beware, rent-seeking is a term you may have to look up if your life path has yet to cross…
Alan Jones: what is the real Perrottet government about?
On many occasions, I have sought to alert voters in New South Wales to the extraordinary and reckless economic management…
One-legged seagull: the cult of victimhood
There is a hardwood pier stretching out into the protected harbour where I live, styled to resemble a vintage port.…
Needle spiking haunts the land
I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by…
Enough! No more big government
It should come as no surprise that the globalists have enjoyed another Summit to discuss their agenda for world domination.…
Holding parents responsible for youth crime
Violent youth crime in this nation seems to be on the increase. Recent television footage of children running amok in…
A race-based tax is utterly unjust
Last month, former Victorian Greens (now Independent) Senator Lidia Thorpe, ‘reiterated the call for Australian property owners to pay a weekly…
Review of anti-discrimination laws puts religious educational institutions under threat
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recently released its consultation paper on the subject of Religious Education Institutions and…
