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The Sofronoff Express at platform ‘speed’

27 May 2024 10:34 pm

The Magna Carta meets the ACT’s legal system on the Sofronoff Express in what promises to be a historic and…

Glaciers, graziers, glaziers, and the strangler fig

27 May 2024 2:50 pm

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 … ?

27 May 2024 9:02 am

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

27 May 2024 2:00 am

Balance does not exist in nature. As a vacuum is filled, so too must a spinning top topple, a speeding…

Winning over young men

26 May 2024 10:10 am

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

25 May 2024 5:53 pm

‘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

25 May 2024 5:38 pm

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?

24 May 2024 9:33 am

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?

24 May 2024 9:17 am

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

23 May 2024 1:12 am

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

23 May 2024 12:01 am

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

22 May 2024 2:00 am

Leaning left in the early days of TV

Art’s gone Woke and no longer serves the common good

21 May 2024 9:31 am

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

20 May 2024 3:00 am

Nothing was ever said about the good that men had done and continued to do

In defence of parliamentary procedure

20 May 2024 2:30 am

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

20 May 2024 2:00 am

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

20 May 2024 12:07 am

Mass migration is the largest and most controversial political topic in the Western world. Come the beginning of June, mass…

His story as history

19 May 2024 4:44 pm

Western universities failed to teach the true nature of Soviet communism

Are people afraid to put their name on the Covid Inquiry?

18 May 2024 11:13 pm

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

18 May 2024 11:53 am

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?

17 May 2024 2:30 am

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!

17 May 2024 2:00 am

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

16 May 2024 3:57 am

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

16 May 2024 3:22 am

Francesco di Petracco, better known as ‘Petrarch’, is rightly recognised as an artistic genius, the greatest scholar of his age,…

Same values, different beliefs?

16 May 2024 2:52 am

Values and beliefs are not the same. People can support each other’s values while holding different beliefs. But if we…