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Which bread are you…?

11 February 2022 12:00 pm

There’s been a lot of talk in recent days about what type of bread each of us identifies with. According…

‘Fair trial’ derailed by the Prime Minister

11 February 2022 9:00 am

This week’s parliamentary apology to Brittany Higgins was greeted by lawyers everywhere with a gasp of incredulity that our Prime…

The false propaganda of racism

11 February 2022 4:00 am

As a boy growing up in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, I was used to seeing violence and cruelty.…

Never again: a manifesto on freedom

10 February 2022 2:00 pm

I can clearly remember walking around Sydney harbour on Australia Day in 2020. My partner and I meandered through The…

Perrottet fancies a bit of Bega

10 February 2022 12:00 pm

Dominic Perrottet obviously thinks Bega is in play at the by-election on Saturday judging by his presence last week in…

Mob hysteria

10 February 2022 10:26 am

While both Grace Tame, a victim of sexual abuse, and Brittany Higgins, who was allegedly raped in Parliament House, have…

Man bites dog

10 February 2022 9:00 am

This is what happens when the self-appointed preachers of tolerance and respect don’t get their way. LGBTQ activists have covered…

Civility? It’s empathy we need

10 February 2022 4:00 am

Following leaked text messages showing the way politicians can talk behind closed doors, Grace Tame’s rudeness towards the Prime Minister,…

The basics (and evils) of Cultural Marxism

9 February 2022 2:00 pm

Readers might be aware of Cultural Marxism, contained within the academic field of Critical Theory as a collection of heavily…

Letter from New York – where empathy is exhausted

9 February 2022 12:00 pm

This week, in one carriage of the New York City subway, there were seven homeless people taking shelter on an…

History on the side of Barnaby Joyce

9 February 2022 9:00 am

The ambush on Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison at his Canberra Press Club address last week was extraordinary. So too…

The greater good - or a grander evil?

9 February 2022 4:00 am

Every time I hear some middling news reporter parrot ‘for the greater good’ in reference to whatever the next absurd…

The Liberals are a lost cause

8 February 2022 2:00 pm

For some time, the Liberal Party has been walking a dangerous path, one lined with terrible policies and dodgy backroom…

Australia desperately needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission

8 February 2022 12:00 pm

Talk about missing the point… All those clamouring for a federal corruption commission to be an election issue have so…

Israel confounds the promise of vaccines as the way out of Covid

8 February 2022 9:00 am

Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it…

Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus

8 February 2022 4:00 am

Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with…

Labor loves the ‘F’ word, but is too bashful to say it

7 February 2022 2:00 pm

Queensland loves a good rort, doesn’t it? Their integrity commissioner, Dr. Nikola Stepanov, resigned midway through her three-year term last week. Why?…

‘Conspiracy theorists’ – the new extremists

7 February 2022 12:00 pm

The rationale that dominates the minds of the mainstream, which for over two years has dictated the dominant discourse, seems…

The real hippies are with Joe Rogan

7 February 2022 9:00 am

I have been trying to avoid writing about Joe Rogan since everyone has a take on the old hippy rockers vs…

Will the Religious Discrimination Bill see the light of day?

7 February 2022 4:00 am

The 2022 Australian federal election must be held on or before May 21, 2022 to elect members of the 47th…

Australia is already a republic – leave it alone

6 February 2022 11:00 am

The great English philosopher, John Locke, wrote a revolutionary book called Two Treatises of Government. It was most surely revolutionary. First published…

Did Citipointe prove there’s no ‘freedom of religion’?

6 February 2022 7:00 am

This week, Citipointe Christian College was the centre of a mini publicity maelstrom. The Brisbane Christian school first released –…

When teachers become hate preachers

5 February 2022 10:58 am

This month marks 20 years since a grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh after his November 2001 capture in Afghanistan.…

How do we fix ‘stupid’?

5 February 2022 8:00 am

It took centuries of history – wars fought, won, and lost – to bring together the world’s greatest philosophers and…

Can Big Tech remain as the arbiter of politics?

4 February 2022 2:00 pm

Increasingly, climate change is coming to dominate energy supply and indeed the whole economy. Modest changes to the climate are…