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Bingeing on safety is dangerous

26 August 2022 4:00 am

My two-year-old daughter has had a shocking cold with a chesty cough for a few days now and it just…

Groan of Arc

25 August 2022 2:53 pm

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt – as the flames rose to her Roman nose – Bigmouth strikes…

Society is going to the dogs … and cats

25 August 2022 12:00 pm

The sexual revolution has brought us to ... this ... a brave new world?

Queensland disciplines its vaccine dissidents

25 August 2022 10:00 am

Just when you thought we were finally through with vaccine-based discrimination, Queensland has managed to pull another absurd stunt.  In…

Ben Falconer’s loss highlights WA’s terrible laws

25 August 2022 8:00 am

Senior Constable Ben Falconer’s challenge to the mandatory vaccine directions of the Chief Health Officer for Western Australia and the…

Do the Libs have a ‘women problem’?

25 August 2022 4:00 am

About 200 Liberal Party members attended in Western Australia a meeting that was described as a ‘polite discussion on party…

The unions are back in town

24 August 2022 11:00 am

Following the 2022 election, there are already signs of an increase in union influence, with Labor’s planned closure of the…

Girls’ schools are for girls

24 August 2022 10:00 am

When I was at University, I took old-fashioned Women’s Studies. We used to study things like the ways women become…

Christianity told to bow to Woke

24 August 2022 8:00 am

There’s an old definition of news that goes like this: ‘If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But…

Fighting back

24 August 2022 4:00 am

Every day, men are mown down by petty bureaucrats revelling in their feminist-bestowed power to crush ordinary blokes. With my…

The Harbour Bridge is rusting

23 August 2022 11:30 am

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is rusting. The corrosion reveals how we are failing to preserve what has been handed down…

Welcome to Country: have we worn out our welcome?

23 August 2022 10:00 am

Now that the Labor-Green alliance has formed a government, Prime Minister Albanese has informed us a referendum is needed to…

The bastards of Australia’s pandemic tyranny

23 August 2022 7:00 am

The behaviour demonstrated by political leaders and public health officials within Western democracies will linger to their eternal shame. There…

Chairman Dan’s antipodean Venezuela

23 August 2022 4:00 am

In her media realise dated August 17 and headed ‘Applications Open for Premier’s Spirit of Democracy Tour’, Minister Natalie Hutchins…

Salman Rushdie: a history of violence

22 August 2022 12:00 pm

In the classic Hitchcock film The Birds, there is an early scene where the protagonist notices a raven standing on the…

Paying for the pandemic welfare state

22 August 2022 10:00 am

We need to stop looking to the government to resolve all of our problems – especially since many of our…

The public protection paradox

22 August 2022 7:00 am

How poor healthcare regulation can harm citizens

The ‘progressive’ Holy Trinity is far from divine

22 August 2022 4:00 am

The Manly Sea Eagles rainbow jersey saga represents the new ‘progressive’ Holy Trinity of diversity, inclusion, and equality with a…

A republican Liberal is oxymoronic

21 August 2022 8:00 am

I didn’t think this was possible, but even more indictments were levelled against Scott Morrison last week – something about him…

We reap what we sow

21 August 2022 6:00 am

You reap what you sow, as St Paul once said. Thanks to Israel Folau, we know that St Paul said…

McGowan’s bid for total control

20 August 2022 12:00 pm

It is to the 19th century British historian, politician, and moralist Lord Acton that we owe the phrase: ‘Power tends…

The leadership qualities of a long-dead parrot

20 August 2022 11:00 am

‘Be careful what you say,’ said my friend, ‘this guy is fanatical about the local colony of parrots and if…

Suing child gender clinics may be harder in Australia

20 August 2022 8:00 am

It would probably be illegal for Victorian families to do what their British counterparts are doing, and sue LGBTQ+ child gender…

Howard still prefers Bush to Trump

20 August 2022 6:00 am

If you have read The Australian recently, you would have discovered that ex-Prime Minister John Howard does not like Donald Trump. Reading…

AIMS reef monitoring the most extensive in the world

19 August 2022 12:00 pm

I write to firmly contest the claims of last week’s opinion article regarding the annual survey of the Great Barrier…