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Glaciers, graziers, glaziers, and the strangler fig
A perfunctory search on Wikipedia informs that the Strangler Fig, Ficus watkinsiana, ‘grows on another tree, using it as physical support, while…
Covid vaccines: saviour or … ?
It’s interesting that the esteemed editor of this site [ Brownstone ] has concluded, after more than four years of cogitation, that…
Pushover conservatives will lose the culture wars
Balance does not exist in nature. As a vacuum is filled, so too must a spinning top topple, a speeding…
Winning over young men
Message to the Libs. Don’t turn off the young men – they are your best hope of regaining power. There’s…
Campus protests are a free speech test for universities
‘This is a major win.’ These were the words of a spokesperson after the University of Melbourne caved in to…
Let’s not forget why we’re here
On multiple occasions this week, I’ve found myself wondering if I was living in some dystopian alternate reality. I watched…
How long before laughter is grounds for cancellation?
Jerry Seinfeld is not just a practitioner of comedy, he’s become a philosopher of the profession and he’s arguing that…
Will the Bank of England be the first to cut interest rates?
With inflation in the UK down to 2.3 per cent now and some suggesting that the Bank of England ought…
Don’t deport little Aussie Luca
Life really can be bitter-sweet – it can throw up hurdles and roadblocks when they are least expected but sometimes, when all…
Use deadly force: Biden green-lit FBI raid to go nuclear on Trump
Damning new court documents reveal Joe Biden apparently green lighting the ‘use of deadly force’ in the FBI’s 2022 raid…
Bring on the bias
Leaning left in the early days of TV
Art’s gone Woke and no longer serves the common good
Perhaps the National Gallery of Australia should be renamed the National Fringe Gallery of Australia...
The making and un-making of a feminist radical: my story
Nothing was ever said about the good that men had done and continued to do
In defence of parliamentary procedure
Gabrielle de Vietri is a member of the Victorian Parliament. In my view, it’s time she acted like it. A…
Painting Gina: National Gallery hypocrisy over cruel Rinehart portrait
It is absurd to me that Rinehart, as the portrait’s subject, seems without agency
We’re not multicultural. We have one culture. The Australian culture
Mass migration is the largest and most controversial political topic in the Western world. Come the beginning of June, mass…
His story as history
Western universities failed to teach the true nature of Soviet communism
Are people afraid to put their name on the Covid Inquiry?
Of the 2,090 submissions to the Covid Response Inquiry, 1,021 declined to permit the author’s name to be published. That’s…
A budget about (nearly) nothing
The Australian Federal Budget gave us a couple of big headlines, but most of them were fake news. The Treasurer…
Who will destroy our freedoms?
The World Health Organisation (WHO), the health agency of the United Nations, is drafting a number of new documents which aim to radically change…
We and the ABS will not be fooled again!
The Albanese government is using taxpayers’ money and accounting tricks to cover up the inflationary pressures its own policies are exacerbating, particularly…
The balance of probabilities
Having emerged from the courtroom where Justice Michael Lee delivered his decision on the Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Limited…
The Dark Ages in Australia were not so dark
Francesco di Petracco, better known as ‘Petrarch’, is rightly recognised as an artistic genius, the greatest scholar of his age,…
Same values, different beliefs?
Values and beliefs are not the same. People can support each other’s values while holding different beliefs. But if we…
Budget review: net zero cannibalises our prosperity
The public is receiving the Budget with a sense of bored irrelevance. People are pleased to see a $300 cut…
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