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Huawei: the telco that spooked Canberra – and the world

19 November 2019 11:53 am

If you were to travel back in time to October 2013, Huawei was a rising telecom equipment manufacturer from China…

Are the Greens and Change.org attempting to manipulate the family law inquiry?

19 November 2019 5:00 am

If they ever have a good week, last week was an unmitigated disaster for the Greens.   Deputy leader Larissa Waters…

Socialism 2.0: it’s now the wokeing versus the working class

18 November 2019 6:28 pm

Under the original Marxism, inspired by the bearded bum himself, socialist revolution would happen when the working class rose up…

Want to lift wages? Cut payroll tax

18 November 2019 2:22 pm

Slow economic growth and sluggish wages seem to be the new normal in Australia. This is not good enough, and…

When the woke go for broke and choke

18 November 2019 11:02 am

When the woke overcook the politically correct wokeness that they perpetually live in and instead get slapped down by normality,…

Winnie, you and your Peking party panjandrums can’t purge our pols

18 November 2019 7:51 am

It seems that two prominent Liberal MPs, James Paterson and Andrew Hastie, have blotted their copybooks with the panda panjandrums…

Freedom of speech guarantees your right to know

17 November 2019 5:58 pm

The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution contains the following words: Congress shall make…

The ABC’s credibility has vanished beneath the waves, not Venice

17 November 2019 1:17 pm

The ABC has clearly given up on any pretence of any claim to rational, balanced and impartial journalism. This fact…

Emmo calls out Twitter, lynch mob madness explodes

15 November 2019 10:58 am

Craig Emerson is a former federal Labor minister and parliamentarian who represented the Queensland seat of Rankin from 1998 to…

Two years on from “marriage equality”, basic freedoms are under threat

15 November 2019 5:08 am

As the nation today marks the second anniversary of the vote to redefine marriage, we remain in the grip of…

Ok, millennial?

14 November 2019 6:13 pm

The young and the hopeless: A new survey consisting of 2,000 millennials (ages 22-38) has revealed some troubling statistics regarding…

What’s woke this week?

14 November 2019 3:37 pm

The world has ridden a tsunami of woke this past week. It came crashing in from all corners of the…

Wheeling in the circus

14 November 2019 12:00 pm

The inaugural Broadside festival of feminist ideas — yes, that festival behind that episode of Q&A — ran last weekend…

Transgender adventure in Dan Andrewstan? Careful, you just might find it

14 November 2019 5:00 am

“Transgender people should be given hormonal treatment and sex-reassignment surgery on demand without a diagnosis or assessment by a psychiatrist,…

SBS and the case of the missing bushfire story

13 November 2019 6:00 pm

Yesterday I tweeted a quote from an SBS News article from 2013 which featured top bushfire researcher David Packham calling…

Why school exams matter

13 November 2019 4:02 pm

Undoubtedly, the Higher School Certificate is hard. But final exams are not intended to be easy — to be some…

Labor said ‘if you don’t like our policies, don’t vote for us’, yet still needed an election review?

13 November 2019 11:54 am

Labor really didn’t need an army of strategists to find out why it lost the widely touted unlosable May election.…

Exhibitionist feminism: an infantile disorder

13 November 2019 5:00 am

The majority of the time I dismiss far-left exhibitionist feminists as “fembots” as they are utterly incapable of original thought,…

How woke is your tote?

12 November 2019 7:23 pm

As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” For starters, they…

Jacinta Price forced to beg activists: don’t exploit my nephew’s death

12 November 2019 5:25 pm

Activists inciting racial division and hatred have disrespected a grieving family’s wishes for calm and peace while investigations into the…

Hysteria heats up with wrong answer to an old problem

12 November 2019 2:32 pm

First Extinction Rebellion blocks traffic claiming that the world will end unless Australia shuts down all industry immediately, then the…

Perhaps we should all just ignore mad Auntie

12 November 2019 12:13 pm

It is now clear that none of our successive federal governments has the courage, willpower or intention to do anything…

Daniel Andrews corroboree of jobbery. Part II: the secret parliament

12 November 2019 5:00 am

Polls have closed and 21 Aboriginal members have been elected to Victoria’s ‘First People’s Assembly’. The assembly will meet on…

Why lefties don’t get walls

11 November 2019 7:01 pm

Over the weekend, the world remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Even Italy’s Democratic Party…

Labor learns the limits of identity politics

11 November 2019 4:05 pm

As usual, Shakespeare said it best: The weight of this sad time we must obey Speak what we feel, not…