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Liberty demands the state respect religion
While the commonwealth government is yet to table the revised version of its Freedom of Religion Bill there’s no doubt…
Mandatory vaccination is a human rights violation. A gross violation
Mandating or coercing COVID vaccination is one of the most important civil liberties issues of my lifetime. It’s a fundamental…
Beware a blind charge to net-zero emissions
In the prologue to the UN Glasgow meeting on climate change, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has been preparing the ground for…
Freedom of choice has been cancelled and will cost lives from tomorrow
Policymakers have impinged on the freedoms of the most disadvantaged members of society – smokers. From 1 October 2021, it…
Snapshot Victoria: the State of Chaos
Victoria today: 242 days in lockdown; 11,018 active Covid cases; 1,438 new infections, 856 deaths Under 50% of the population…
Why the Jess Rowe Big Talk Show Podcast is too small to include Pauline Hanson
The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show Podcast is BIG but not big enough to include alternate views, apparently. Journalism is…
A royal commission into coronavirus? Be careful what you wish for
Some former politicians and commentators are suggesting there be an ‘independent’ review in the form of a royal commission to…
Big Tech has placed its bet – on the Genghis Khan of our time
The nineteenth-century Russian writer Alexander Herzen’s greatest fear when thinking about the future has come true. He said “What I’m…
Daniel Andrews gets the wooden spoon
It’s been a big week for Daniel Andrews. He has revealed that his “roadmap” out of lockdown is as reliable…
Charges laid over hotel quarantine: a win for transparency, a win for the SpecOz
Victoria’s workplace safety authority has charged the state health department with 58 breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act…
Want to save the planet? Go nuclear
Amidst general gloom and doom, there’s been a small ray of light, showing that sometimes scare campaigns and endless demonisation…
China’s sandcastles in the sea
Afghanistan sits in the middle of everyone’s infrastructure projects like a pigeon shitting on a chessboard. The world has two options: it…
Can a minor consent to losing their sexuality?
The court of review in Britian last week set aside the 2020 Bell Vs Tavistock Divisional Court decision that persons…
Covid: an alternative interpretation
I recently saw this acronym for COVID. C = Censor O = Oppress V = Victimise I = Isolate D = Divide In a country that…
New polling: Australians say fire up the nukes
This is one of those bonus weeks for poll wonks when we get a Newspoll on Monday and the fortnightly…
Why is Labor still at war with JobKeeper?
JobKeeper saved Australia from a deep recession. Labor knows this is true. They know that for the 3.8 million Australians…
The new provocateurs of Covid
The extraordinary 1988 John Hillcoat/Nick Cave film Ghosts … of the Civil Dead is set in a slightly futuristic high-tech…
Does Daniel Andrews really have a plan to exit his ‘vaccination economy’?
Does Victoria actually have a virus roadmap? When you compare Daniel Andrews’ remarks with Gladys Berejiklian’s, a stark divide emerges.…
Their ABC and the school that tried to end racism (by being racist)
Last week, the ABC aired its latest British borrowing, the first episode of a documentary program called ‘The school that…
Fifty years of lies about domestic violence
Exactly fifty years ago, the world’s first refuge for women fleeing domestic violence opened in London. After her small Chiswick terrace quickly filled to…
The really worrying news in Newspoll for Scott Morrison
Reporting on today’s Newspoll has focussed on seat outcomes, a bit of a mug’s game as it assumes equal swings…
Time for ADF chief Angus Campbell to go before he’s pushed
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has never shirked from hard decisions, and for the first time in some years a minister…
What triggered Melbourne’s union protests – from on the ground
What actually triggered the mass civil disobedience by construction workers last week in Melbourne? The following is a record of…
What did we tell you about Chairman Dan’s ‘roadmap’?
The Spectator Australia, Sunday 19 September 2021: Daniel Andrews has this afternoon delivered his roadmap for freedom for Victorians…We can…
Beware Stumbling Joe’s mumbling, Scotty
When they were talking the other day in Washington the other day, did Joe Biden tell Scott Morrison his recipe…
