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What’s woke this week?
Wokeworld this week offered up an embarrassment of riches as work continues apace on dismantling reason in favour of dumbing…
It’s time to end the seal of the confessional: the religious case
There have been recent calls in California and Australian jurisdictions for the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse by clergy…
How Labor is holding your tax cut hostage
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg claimed in his budget speech last week that the government had repaired the budget “without increasing taxes.”…
Why is Facebook censoring a conference on Christianity and religious freedom?
Every day millions of Christians around the world are persecuted for their faith. They are often intimidated, abused and in…
Why can’t Australian politics produce a Cicciolina?
The lead-up to the election? A third-rate circus. I mean, what would Italian politician and porn star Ilona Staller (aka…
Backwards & Forwards: Billy boy’s electric cars and a Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow budget
Looking back Josh Frydenberg and Bill Shorten had their budgetary pissing contest. My surpluses will be bigger than yours, my…
The cult of the vegan vigilantes
When I checked my news feed this morning it was filled with story after story about radical vegans causing mischief…
EXCLUSIVE: The men who really saved Australia from the GFC
Often in Australian political life, individuals that make profound contributions to public policy go unnoticed while those more conspicuous have…
The unmentionable problem with Labor’s electric car plan
With the federal election campaign underway in all but name, the stars have been aligning for a move to the…
The Coalition needs a bazooka to stop Shorten. Try this one…
In my Backwards and Forwards column on Monday, I said that if Bill Shorten gave a barnstorming, grievance-pandering, promise-laden speech…
Play on Labor’s ground, surrender the advantage
The 2019 Budget has been a budget that satisfies everyone but pleases no-one. It has proved to be a Labor-lite…
Ten reasons why we’re being denied the truth about Planned Parenthood
Do you know what is one of the most revealing films that won’t be shown in Australian cinemas this year?…
What about immigration, Scott, Josh?
When Australia goes to the polls sometime and the Coalition is likely defeated, as the 50 straight Newspoll losses would…
More an epitaph than a budget
Looking at the reaction to Josh Frydenberg’s first budget, its beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It has…
What’s woke this week?
Wokeworld this week invoked cheese in the fight against Trump, introduced therapeutic cuddle parties for men to fight toxic masculinity,…
Roxane Gay’s toxic feminism
On Sunday night in Melbourne an event was held that was supposed to be a discussion/debate between Christina Hoff Sommers…
Scott and Josh’s tax sham surplus shame
After over a decade of abysmal federal budgets, Scott Morrison is set to announce a budget surplus today. I expect…
Thanks, Liberals: income tax growth is almost doubling
The government is tearing a hole in your pocket at an alarming rate. The Reserve Bank of Australia announced that…
Backwards & forwards: the NRA blows budget week to pieces
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Were you looking for pre-Budget leaks last week? For big…
How drug prohibition caused the Lawyer X outrage
An outrageous injustice is currently being investigated before a Royal Commission in Melbourne – the case of Lawyer X, now…
Would you leave your children with Clementine Ford?
Lock up your sons and daughters! Allen & Unwin have just announced they are ‘thrilled’ to be publishing a junior…
Al Jazeera has exposed One Nation as part of the political establishment
During an eighteenth century parliamentary debate, British statesman Edmund Burke professed that “in the reporters’ gallery yonder, there sat a…
Mother, sister, brother produce a baby
Remember when people warned that redefining marriage would open an ethical Pandora’s box? And remember when those who objected to…
Bernardi bombshell: is Cory rejoining the Liberal Party?
Spectator types have shown their good manners this week. We haven’t spoken ill of the dead – or the terminally…
Free speech vs hate speech
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently reaffirmed the UN’s commitment to stopping hate speech, expressing his concern at what he…
