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Walk for Life
This was not the first time I marched at a Walk for Life, but it was the first time I…
Four-year terms: an outsider perspective
Australia’s current Prime Minister has suggested that Commonwealth Parliaments should go four years between elections, instead of the current three.…
Hobson’s leadership choice for Vic Libs
Over the weekend, the Melbourne media were full of fevered speculation that a challenge to struggling Victorian Liberal and Coalition…
The cheap renewable thrill of climate protests
On March 13, 2024, Greta Thunberg was dragged away from blocking the Swedish Parliament entrance for a second day. She…
Reject education furphies
Despite the additional billions invested over the last 30 years, countless educational enquiries and reports, several national reform agreements, and…
Labor’s Brisbane horror election night could be a trap for the LNP
Queensland held its local council elections Saturday, which would normally be a big yawn outside the Sunshine State, except for…
Australian banks need to be making much bigger losses on their lending
At a recent event I met and had a long chat with a retired economist who, in his professional career,…
‘Hell to pay’ if gender equity activists get their way
Every year, like clockwork, the grievance industry works itself into a righteous fury over the annual Employer Census results compiled…
Puberty blocker ban shows public opinion turning on gender ‘affirmation’
This week in Britain, a landmark historical move to ban puberty blockers in gender clinics has been motioned and overseen…
Dystopian Google Gemini shows why misinformation laws are flawed
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. No matter how many revelations came to light of the rampant political…
Woke tropes informing Australia’s Gaza response
ACT Senator David Pocock wrote about Australia’s response to the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza recently. The next day, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong…
Sam Kerr and a case study in identity politics
Still fresh with pride from the Matildas’ inspirational World Cup campaign, Australians woke up last Wednesday morning to the news…
The real reason young people are leaving Sydney
When it comes to Sydney’s housing problem, Premier Chris Minns is full of, uh, ‘facts’. ‘We’re about the 830th densest…
Becoming cashless, but at what cost?
Cash is no longer King. Long before the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to remove the monarch from our…
Australia’s ATM extinction!
Hands up if you’ve struggled to find an ATM lately… I don’t mean an overpriced service station ATM; I mean…
Mystical truth and palpable absurdity
George Orwell wrote in 1984, ‘The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable…
History returning from the grave
Muticulturalism and multipolarity
Our spy laws are out of date (again)
It appears that ASIO is unable to bring about the prosecution of an unamed former politician who betrayed Australia because…
Marriage – a fading institution
‘Dearly beloved, we are gathered together in the sight of God, and in the face of this congregation, to join…
Hubris and the Left
We are all familiar with the concept of hubris. The vice of excessive self-confidence and ambition which, by inducing a…
Is the Pope’s moral surrender a sin?
In the Middle East, US President Joe Biden is urging Israel’s surrender to the terrorist Hamas organisation via a ceasefire.…
The Palaszczuk legacy: terrible for Queenslanders, appalling for women
The Inala by-election, which will decide on a replacement for Annastacia Palaszczuk in Queensland’s Parliament, is scheduled for March 16,…
Australia to face an honest inquiry
On October 19, the Australian Senate agreed to hold an inquiry under the auspices of its Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee…
Eshays, imported riots – are water cannons next?
Whether it’s antisemitic pro-Palestinians or a gathering of ‘eshays’ in Logan in Queensland, our police forces have lost control of…
Konstantin Kisin: Romancing the West
‘The West is better. Our societies are better. Not superior, just better at producing the kinds of things that human…
