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Performance review time
It’s end of year performance review time in corporate Australia. Oh, what boundless joy now falls upon us! White collar…
The imaginary man
You may have noticed the recent Weekend Australian Magazine piece former US President, Barack Obama. The article, by Gabriel Debenedetti,…
It’s ok, but a matter of pride?
Twenty-three-year-old Canadian alt-right celebrity (now that’s something) Lauren Southern has arrived in Australia wearing an “It’s ok to be white”…
Could this be the end of Roe vs Wade?
Well, President Trump continues to defy his critics’ dire predictions of economic catastrophe and political Armageddon. First, there is the…
Why comments should be free again
‘Comment is free,’ The Guardian’s opinion page still proudly declares, quoting C P Scott, a former editor of the newspaper.…
Belling the cat on electricity
In an inversion of the social hierarchy of Yes Minister, it would appear that Australia has at least one courageous…
Grounded realities
‘Social democratic parties have a problem selling opportunity and hope, while conservatives easily sell fear and trepidation’. I am paraphrasing…
Australian troops fear Afghan lawsuits
Thousands of Australian military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are at risk of being dragged through the courts…
Time to call out misandry in the media
To believe that misandry is any better than misogyny is to have no concept of equality. So, who wants to…
From a home of the enlightenment to one of its greatest products
There are few better places in the world for a Scotsman to spend to spend a three-month Sabbatical than Sydney.…
A quick quiz you can’t win
Who are these people? Without giving the quiz game away, here are some characteristics of people who belong to a…
Judge Brett Kavanaugh v Your ABC
If you thought American politics was a passionate and emotive affair, President Trump’s appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the United…
I’m transgender – and proudly conservative
I’m a transwoman, and this is my #walkaway story. I grew up in a conservative Catholic, Labor-voting family in South-Western…
“A curfew for men”, you say? A few questions…
Pretty much the entire population in Australia has had enough of the man bashing. They’ve had enough of the boiling…
Free speech Kiwi roadkill
It was frighteningly authoritarian when the Mayor of Auckland and former Kiwi Labour leader, Phil Goff, decreed by tweet on…
Fine dining with Lettuce and Lavender
Lettuce and Lavender wanted their friends to see their new home nestled amongst the tall gums at the base of…
Edmund Burke down under
Accepting the Edmund Burke Award in November 2016, John Howard paid homage to the eighteenth century Anglo-Irish statesman, remarking that…
Build our boys, guard our girls
As a high school youth pastor, I recently sat my boys down and we discussed Christian teaching as it related…
Gun lore
I took the bullet in the chest and fell over dramatically, in what I hoped was slow motion, rolling down…
The big British babies bawling about Trump – and tantrum tyranny
It seems that one of the things which people on the left fear most is being taken over by some…
Who defends our defenders?
Last week Defence admitted former Lt Colonel Karel Dubsky was an innocent victim of the Jedi Council witchhunt that terminated…
The Australia Institute snubs the coal, hard facts
Advocacy is core business for think tanks, but when does advocacy become propaganda? When the think tank is the grandly…
How the ABC’s facile feminists boost the baser instincts
One of Australia’s least funny comedians, Tom Ballard, is at it again. No, not of being accused of sexual assault—a…
Gatecrashing the funeral for selfies
On June 18, Clementine Ford drip-fed some more man-hating nonsense to her brainwashed minions in an article for Fairfax Media. Done and…
Excuse me, but this consent strategy is bonkers
Drum roll… NSW’s new Sexual Assault Strategy has been released. Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Minister Pru Goward…
