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Britain’s Israel Folau wins his case
Like Australia’s Israel Folau, British student Felix Ngole, is a litmus test regarding freedom of religion, as well as freedom…
How Australians are in the front line of the global war to save the university
The free speech code drawn up by former chief justice of the High Court of Australia, Robert French, is a…
How the gender benders are coming for your favourite sport
The Australian Human Rights Commission has just released its Guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people in…
Prime ministers past and the new parliament
Yesterday the larger than life contribution of Robert J. Hawke to Australian political life was recognised for the return of…
Pass the tax cuts now – or has Labor forgotten May 18?
Along with President Trump, readers of Spectator’s Flat White should not have been at all surprised by the victory of…
Would you trust Wayne Swan to speak sense on anything?
Wayne Swan is the former federal treasurer who promised a budget surplus over and over and over again, but never…
Quiet (young) Australians
While many young Australians are partial to a whinge about how expensive three bedroom terraces in Surry Hill and Collingwood…
We need a Restoration of Freedoms Bill, not religious freedom legislation
The Morrison government is promising to introduce a religious discrimination bill. And yet, these reforms are unsatisfactory. They pose a…
From Israel to Poland, the corporate social responsibility folaut continues
The Israel Folau case is big because Israel Folau is big – literally, but more importantly, metaphorically speaking. Folau, however,…
Who says a woman can’t win with a sugar daddy arrangement?
Recently, 60 minutes, aired a segment titled: The Secret World of Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddies. As one would expect…
GULAG, rejoice: ministers will still do what we public servants tell them to
Our peeved yet perspicacious political insider writes exclusively: The humiliation of Election19 will reach its zenith as the 46th Parliament…
Instead of squabbling over tax cuts, let’s talk about real reform
The left’s calls for the Coalition to abandon its tax cut agenda and open the government purse strings for more…
From woke to choke
Sometimes you discover to your utmost horror and disgust that you have placed too much trust and faith in a…
What makes the Israel Folau lynching that different to doxing?
It’s been interesting to watch Australia’s commentariat largely misread Israel Folau’s recent travails. Folau’s ordeal isn’t, in substance, a sterile…
Head of State under PM’s guillotine
In 1999 Australians wisely rejected the elite’s attempts to persuade them to adopt Malcolm Turnbull’s republic. Turnbull is now insisting…
G’day Albo, mate. Welcome to Hell
When a loved one dies, the real grieving is often postponed. The senses numb the immediate shock, helping the bereaved…
It’s a strange, lonely world when you’re anti-euthanasia from experience
Being anti-euthanasia is most similar to being an outcast kid. Not only is one mocked, shamed and personally attacked. One…
Why go to church tomorrow?
The churches of the West are in a bad way. You know it, I know it. Classical Liberal thinkers, both…
One of Izzy’s silent supporters speaks: don’t shoot before you think
I’m sure it has happened to all of us, at least once in our lives. You remember that time you…
The Clover Moore catastrophe
Clover Moore’s Sydney, with its Climate Emergency clarion call, is far from the first city to adopt the zero-emissions-by-2050 mantra. …
Tourist guide: North Korea’s a joke, but a joke that can kill you
Like many Australians, I have feared the worst after hearing of the disappearance of Alex Sigley, Australian student and tour…
More evidence plain packaging has failed (unless you’re out to hurt the poor)
Recent studies are sending the premise of plain packaging up in smoke. Plain packaging does not actually reduce cigarette consumption.…
Snowflake latest: Sydney University is irreparably racist and must be abolished. Or something similar, anway
At the University of Sydney we can see what happens when students are no longer taught our history. When the…
The public’s fury at being told what to do and think has exploded with the Folau fiasco
Trust the perennially sanctimonious Kerryn Phelps to capture in a couple of sentences why the Israel Folau saga has resonated…
A defensive battle was won on May 18. A long slog’s still needed in the culture wars
When GoFundMe shut down Israel Folau’s fundraising campaign for his legal battle with Rugby Australia, it confirmed in spades the…
