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If we can’t trust big government, how can we trust it with religious liberty?
Ten days ago, Attorney-General Christian Porter confirmed at the National Press Club “religious hospitals and aged care providers will be…
Forget the Deep State, it’s the Shallow State that’s the big issue
As one of my friends is fond of saying, one man’s perversion is another man’s great night. The same can…
An American explains Thanksgiving: it’s a lesson in economics
As an American living in Australia, it can be hard going at times – especially now. No sumptuous turkey dinner…
The ABC’s in a PC pickle
Political correctness is out of control. You know it, I know it… and, it seems, even ABC diehards know it. …
Let’s be better than the left dealing with different opinions
The story goes that a student of philosophy was asked in an exam to prove a chair which had been…
What’s woke this week?
Animal rights and feminist film criticism have stirred up wokeworld this week and, as we predicted last week, the run-up…
Clive James isn’t dead. He’s just off learning something new
There must be poets writing today who can’t remember a time when Clive James wasn’t dying. Indeed, his capitulation to…
Healthy, safe, quality lives matter more than an Indigenous ‘voice to parliament’
Much has been written about the demand for an Indigenous voice. While such an idea is necessarily political, I wish…
I love a man, er, Green in uniform
It’s going to take a long, long time to ever forget Greens Party leader Richard Di Natale’s 2016 spread in…
Rebels with all the wrong causes
No one has been glueing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men…
Please, won’t someone think of the gender-fluid sportspeople?
Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any more ridiculous, hang onto your hats folks, saddle up across the…
Dear Dr Bandt, if countries don’t buy our coal it doesn’t mean they’ll become carbon free
In the absence of Australian consumers having any actual influence on historical global climate variations, Greens MP for Melbourne Adam…
Climate cranks turn up the heat
Climate hysteria is increasing in intensity at the rate that alarmists claim extreme weather events are increasing thanks to burning…
Care about China’s Uighurs? You must be a white racist cultural imperialist
China is very touchy today about criticism of its inhumane rights regime, but who else managed to miss this truly…
Water crisis? What water crisis?
Australia may be the “land of drought and flooding rains”, but that is no excuse to mismanage abundance and utilise…
Impeachment inflames Trump Derangement Syndrome
After the media’s coverage of the August El Paso mass shootings and as the impeachment process unfolds, it is becoming…
The left’s ‘tyranny of tolerance’ means we need religious freedom laws
As Attorney-General Christian Porter aims to bring his Religious Discrimination Bill before Parliament in the first week of December, critics…
First Tibet. Then Xinjiang. Next Hong Kong?
Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The Xinjiang Papers — confirms previous accounts of the…
The other extinction rebellion: against the extinction of real learning in our schools
The(ir) ABC appear shocked to find that conservatives in Australia are pushing back against leftism in the classroom. “One Nation…
Will two tigers clash over Sri Lanka – India and China?
Elections in the subcontinent often have a ‘nothing to see here’ feeling, mainly because, through a heritage of colonial rule,…
Why the left’s beef about the Reef?
We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except…
Nobody is above the law in the United States – except a million or so illegal immigrants
Watching the Democrats haul their impeachment caravan across Washington these past days I was struck by the punctuation marks in…
Dear XYs, we love you
I bloody love men. I love almost everything about them: the banter, the directness, the chivalry and the everyday interactions…
Memo MPs: how have you forgotten 60,000 years of bushfire prevention?
The current weather and wildfire situation is neither unprecedented nor unexpected. These latest holocausts are a direct consequence of the…
Christian Porter: no more free speech, thank you very much
Despite all the arguments made and support garnered for a constitutional amendment that would guarantee our freedom of speech and…
