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Ballot-breakers
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
“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
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
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?
We’re going very fast from “It’s illiberal to ban the niqab/ban the burqa” – a serious debate in itself –…
Yummy #MeToo
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
Phonics is a way of teaching children to read that links the letters of the alphabet, syllables and words to…
The week in misandry
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
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
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
When life gives you Don Lemons, it’s time to switch off CNN: Translation: we have to stop demonising some people…
Logic creams milk levy criticism
The past fortnight has seen loud criticism of the milk price levy applied by supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths to assist…
Good luck with that religious freedom, ScoMo
Scott Morrison really has his work well and truly cut if he intends to protect our religious freedom without antagonising…
Sorry, Australia, but Joko says “no”
Australia does not have the permission of Indonesia’s President to relocate our Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem.…
Fresh foreign threats to free speech on universities
The growing concern about academic freedom and free speech on university campuses typically relates to illiberal student activists shutting down…
What’s Labor got against life?
I was brought up as a devout Roman Catholic, but one of the reasons why I left the Church was…
The social media giants have stopped even pretending
Sure, they are private businesses and so they can do whatever they want with their users but at least in…
Rustbelt Libs smash small business over vacuous vaping claims
As the South Australian Government forces $60 million worth of local small businesses to close their doors, they are also…
How markets are making our lives better
The latest data out of the ABS reveal that we’re spending ever more money on dining out and takeaway. Indeed,…
Nauru kids and “resignation syndrome”: a political diagnosis
The term “resignation syndrome” arose just over a decade ago in Sweden. It described what doctors were seeing among refugees…
Try a little tenderness
Prime Minister Scot Morrison’s Christianity has been under the media spotlight recently. All the reporting showed me that when people…
Forget global warming, here’s some really spooky science
Newton’s Third Law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This (along with his First…
The Bosphorus option
Failed leaders or pretenders to the throne in the old Ottoman Empire received no mercy. Having failed the test to…
Grow a juicy kick-arse vagina and stop whinging
The #MeToo campaign goes up my arse sideways. The once empowering movement has transformed into a violent and hateful vendetta…
Nanny Gladys ignores the facts again
In unsurprising news, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian this week announced she would adopt all of the recommendations made…
