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Kerr and Whitlam’s unfilled advisory role to the Governor-General

26 August 2022 11:20 am

In the autumn of 1975, the then Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, put a proposal to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam for…

What just happened in PNG?!

26 August 2022 10:15 am

A troubling election in difficult times as Beijing creeps closer to the Pacific

Classrooms: an ideological battleground

26 August 2022 8:00 am

The effects of leftist ideology that has infiltrated classrooms is damaging and should be of concern to every parent. Much…

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…