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Does the Human Rights Commission really believe in guilty until found innocent?
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s recommendations for discrimination law reform — which look like they wish to reverse the onus…
Are the Greens endangering children with climate rally rabbles?
The cat is out of the bag. Yes, so the Children’s Crusade, the kiddies climate rally or whatever you want…
Vaping scaremongering will cost Australian lives
An outbreak of a serious lung illness in the United States and six deaths ‘linked to vaping’ has led to…
The anti-Alan Jones rabble are fighting free speech, not just him
Weeks after the original supposedly offensive comments, the furore around Alan Jones’ breakfast show is showing no sign of abating.…
It’s university open day season
It hasn’t been the same since the twins said they’ve just turned 18, and need a lift to the university.…
Heroes saved us, politicians blamed the wrong culprit
“HEROES SAVE US” – That’s the headline on our local Noosa paper, superimposed over a dramatic photograph of a lone…
Gladys Liu and the danger of being everything to everyone
I don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she has any compromising…
Psychology’s war on men
American pharmaceutical companies aren’t allowed to advertise on Australian TV unless you’re talking over-the-counter cold tablets or pain killers. Which…
GetUp’s child slavery
In or around 1212, according to legend, bands of children from northern Europe led by a boy Stephen of Cloyes…
What’s woke this week
The corporate world has been woking up a storm this week with cultural appropriation and socially just ice cream hitting…
Beware the ‘bill of rights’ trap when debating freedom of religion
Two recent events have exposed some serious misunderstandings on both the right and left about how Australia’s human rights protections…
What sex is your penguin?
Humanity has anthropomorphised animals since time immemorial, from hunters-gatherers to Disney, so no wonder that contemporary madness is slowly seeping into…
Bushfire sense and nonsense
Bushfires are normal events in this season in tropical and subtropical latitudes of the southern hemisphere – in Australia, Africa…
Understanding Hong Kong’s fight
Most commentary on the Hong Kong protests from Western news outlets rightly champion the pro-democracy cause and scorn the ruthlessness…
Asking for the sisterhood: where have all the good men gone?
Equality between the sexes, so good in theory, doesn’t necessarily deliver in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the…
Italy: la dolce vita, le sistema disordinato
Holidaying in Italy is like wearing a mini skirt without knickers: the rules of the Australian nanny-state are cast aside…
GULAG aghast at Wayne Swan’s gender surrender
Our non-cisgendered prominent political personage from the Progressive Canberra Cadre writes: Swannie got his election analysis half right about why…
How many international students are too many?
The Centre for Independent Studies report ‘The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities’ presented the…
Gambling — and losing — on bleeding hearts
Priya and Nades Murugappan, the Tamil couple from Biloela in Queensland, and their unfortunate children must wish they had not…
No recession, but a big policy ask ahead
The economic ghouls may be disappointed that last week’s real GDP read-out for the quarter came without a minus sign.…
The question no politician wants to face about suicide
World Suicide Prevention Day 2019 is tomorrow, September 10. In theory, it should provide an opportunity to raise honest awareness…
Pornography: neither a culprit nor a cop-out
Jaymes Todd, the Melbourne man given a life sentence last week for the cowardly rape and murder of Eurydice Dixon…
Dollars don’t lie: when immigration support makes sense
You’d have to have been living under a rock these past few weeks not to have heard about the Priya…
The RBA has lost it
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Phillip Lowe has demonstrated that the RBA and central banks, in general, are simply unable…
Official: climate change denial is misogyny
The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In other words, those who don’t believe in…
