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Will the left luvvies ever forgive their Zuck?

12 April 2018 6:36 pm

I see a Tweet like this and have four instant takeaways: Twitter users skew heavily left. Apart from tweets from…

Turnbull’s Tulla link on the wrong track

12 April 2018 4:33 pm

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today made up more than 50 years of time wasted by bureaucrats and government in planning…

Imagine if they all stood up and shouted “bang” at once?

12 April 2018 2:21 pm

There has been much Pacific hand-wringing over suggestions China has been positioning to establish a military presence in Vanuatu. Before…

Australian democracy is alive and kicking

12 April 2018 11:27 am

Our two-party system is broken, Australian democracy is in a ‘parlous state’, and the populists are marching on Canberra in…

Populism, prejudice, and what’s left of liberal education

12 April 2018 7:32 am

One of the most intellectually disabling of modern prejudices is the idea that you can be free from prejudice. Prejudice…

Sorry Stan, but blaming Hayek for tampergate is a no-ball

11 April 2018 3:01 pm

Recently Stan Grant wrote to tell us that F.A. Hayek — of all people — not only founded the global…

No, we don’t need to talk about Apu

11 April 2018 11:27 am

It was only a matter of time before the fun police came for The Simpsons. The latest victim of the…

“I am ready to challenge”

11 April 2018 7:41 am

The time has come where we must speak bluntly. Australia is beset with a series of systemic and chronic public…

Israel Folau vs the amateur theologians

10 April 2018 7:29 pm

Is Peter van Onselen becoming to The Australian what Emma Alberici is to the ABC, a journalistic liability? It could…

Doing the Right Thing

10 April 2018 2:43 pm

As calm settles over the cricket ball-tampering crisis and the extraordinary public reaction to it, and as the game’s authorities…

Gender confusion

10 April 2018 10:46 am

As a result of left-wing lunacy and the complicity of spineless politicians who are too frightened to resist, every baby…

They’re bruised and bemused, but the base is still staying loyal

10 April 2018 7:48 am

Cory Bernardi probably thinks he’s an Australian Ronald Reagan. With an almost messianic approach, he believes he is uniting a…

The Age’s strange but short-lived honesty

9 April 2018 8:45 pm

For weeks now the “Independent. Always.” Melbourne Age has been recycling Greens Party talking points — sorry, let’s be specific…

There is another…

9 April 2018 7:44 pm

David Flint is part of the chorus demanding that our Dear Leader do the right thing and resign as Prime…

Their ABC thinks it’s time for a women-only parliament

9 April 2018 4:35 pm

Grandiose sweeping statements from their ABC are becoming increasingly bombastic and more comical. “Democracy is failing its brief with its…

Fairfax, Folau and FitzSimons

9 April 2018 2:02 pm

The Fairfax papers has become so strident in their LGBTIQ advocacy that they cannot tolerate anyone having a view other…

Since when has the taxman ever been a friend?

9 April 2018 11:41 am

It is curious that Australians can be so apathetic about high taxation. Being still in the final stages of the…

‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello. Wot’s this ‘ere ‘ate crime going on, then?

8 April 2018 8:53 am

Have no fear. The good old British bobby’s here. Meanwhile, London’s Daily Telegraph reports: While both London and New York have…

Illegal immigration fuels the new American civil war

6 April 2018 5:58 pm

Much of the anti-Trump media and their echoes in Australia must believe people are fools, given their propensity for misleading…

Bursting Di Natale’s slackernomics thought bubble

6 April 2018 11:53 am

Universal Basic Income, a social welfare system where every citizen is unconditionally entitled to receive a fixed amount of money…

The Uber confessional

6 April 2018 7:52 am

If you ever wondered why the Catholic Church guards the sanctity of the confessional so zealously than you need look…

China, red in tooth and claw

5 April 2018 8:48 pm

One of the photographs in Clive Hamilton’s ground-breaking expose ‘Silent Invasion China’s influence in Australia is of ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian…

Malcolm Turnbull is right on one thing

5 April 2018 6:09 pm

A stopped clock is right twice a day. Malcolm Turnbull? Well, he had some very good things to say about…

Julia Gillard’s gender facepalm

5 April 2018 12:20 pm

Julia Gillard has said she played the gender card all wrong. Good news, you may think? Most intelligent, cognisant adults…

Universities need charters of intellectual freedom

5 April 2018 7:40 am

The latest politically correct madness at the University of Sydney — gender, race, sexuality, and class background quotas at the nation’s…