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EXCLUSIVE: The bureaucrats desecrating our diggers’ graves

11 November 2018 4:25 pm

Today, we mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the signing of the armistice which brought an end to the First World…

The word you’ve been looking for? Objectivism

9 November 2018 3:27 pm

There’s something darkly appealing about the whole spectacle of contemporary politics. The distinct magnetism of the performative theatrics, the moral…

The week in misandry

9 November 2018 11:25 am

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. A woman…

Victoria votes: short termism rules, OK?

9 November 2018 8:01 am

Now a fortnight in, and the Victorian election campaign was all but cancelled for lack of interest this week.  The…

What’s so bad about negative gearing?

8 November 2018 4:33 pm

As Scott Morrison tours the Queensland coastline, his mind is most probably wandering across a range of policies that he…

Kristallnacht in Canberra

8 November 2018 2:42 pm

Peter Witting of Yarralumla, Canberra, 10 years old in 1938, remembered leading his nine-year-old sister to school, past destroyed shops…

The Donald is MEGA: Making Earth Great Again

8 November 2018 12:06 pm

President Trump may not have had as a great success at the midterms as his diehard fans predicted, winning some…

Welcome to Rainbow Academy?

8 November 2018 7:00 am

It seems that there are a significant number of people who are upset at the principals of thirty-four Anglican schools…

Victoria’s secret

7 November 2018 5:52 pm

Our federal parliamentarians – even Labor, since this is new territory – have been caught off-guard by reports that Victorian…

Are we really still the economic wonder down under?

7 November 2018 1:26 pm

Australia continues to gain international recognition for its exemplary economic performance and to be highlighted as a case study in…

Winning huge with The Donald

7 November 2018 4:00 am

It is likely President Trump will record an unprecedented success in the midterm elections. Mid-term elections invariably go against the…

Qantas, Virgin and the difference between virtue-signalling and virtue

6 November 2018 6:21 pm

A war of words has erupted around Virgin’s announcement that they would give ex-servicemen and women priority boarding and in-flight…

“What if women went on a sex strike before the midterms?”

6 November 2018 12:01 pm

…and no one noticed? After the “Grab them by the ballot” nude photo shoot by “a diverse group of 10 Vermont women”, with…

Filly follies

6 November 2018 9:37 am

KILL ALL FEMINISTS. ALL FEMINISTS MUST DIE. KILL ALL FEMINISTS. ALL FEMINISTS MUST DIE. I DIPPED A QUILL IN A…

Ballot-breakers

5 November 2018 5:46 pm

Whoever thought of this is a terrible person. I don’t even think it is a 4chan prank: A diverse group…

Thank you for your slogan, Virgin, but I’ll pass

5 November 2018 1:07 pm

“Calling all passengers with children and all defence members and military veterans, you may board now,” announced the heavily made-up,…

Goodbye old blue-ribbons, hello new heartland

5 November 2018 9:48 am

The Liberal Party’s dramatic loss in the Wentworth by-election last month reveals an irreconcilable philosophical divide within the Party. Self-styled…

When the Left eats itself

4 November 2018 7:11 pm

Things have become so ridiculous in Western society that it’s difficult to come up with a scenario that could be…

Don’t even talk about the niqab?

4 November 2018 2:53 pm

We’re going very fast from “It’s illiberal to ban the niqab/ban the burqa” – a serious debate in itself –…

Yummy #MeToo

4 November 2018 10:46 am

I fess up. I too have been called Yummy. Not, sadly, as a stand-alone noun but as an adjective in…

Literacy: a conservative value

2 November 2018 3:17 pm

Phonics is a way of teaching children to read that links the letters of the alphabet, syllables and words to…

The week in misandry

2 November 2018 1:19 pm

A quick peek at what’s going on the flip side of feminism – where it’s all about women. Three girls…

Victoria votes: Tammany Hall v Keystone Kops

2 November 2018 7:52 am

One week into the formal Victorian election campaign, and it’s becoming clear we have a contest between Labor’s Tammany Hall…

Faith schools need the right to hire and fire

1 November 2018 6:19 pm

In the hasty and overheated reaction to the leaked recommendations of the Ruddock review, pressure is building to remove the rights of…

The problem with white men

1 November 2018 3:26 pm

When life gives you Don Lemons, it’s time to switch off CNN: Translation: we have to stop demonising some people…