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Virtue-signalling is in the bag
Today is World Environment Day. And to celebrate the occasion, Australians’ favourite oligopolies — Coles and Woolworths — are doing…
Paul Ramsay’s dream should be realised in a private institution
The Australian National University has cut ties with the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation (Paul Ramsay’s posthumous project for the…
How feminism is failing Vikki Campion
A quick look at coverage of Barnaby Joyce and Vikki Campion’s supposedly tell-all interview confirms two things. Firstly, Joyce is…
Minimum wage hike is no boon for many
Late last week the Fair Work Commission recently increased Australia’s minimum wage to $18.93 an hour. Minimum weekly wages are…
The double standards of our cultural czars
If you were still in any doubt as to there being an unwritten double standard currently operating throughout the Western…
The indoctrination factories may be less effective than we fear
Chat to any spirited teen and it’s clear schools are like medieval villages run by humourless priests. Independent thought threatens,…
Questions for Alexander Downer
It has been a few months now since “The New York Times” first reported on the curious story how an Australian diplomat…
Pope Francis the Inevitable
Just the other day another juicy bit of Pope Francis ‘table talk’ hit the media to wide acclaim. Popularly endorsed…
Not free to choose
I once watched a speech on the nanny state by Brendan O’Neill who said that he didn’t like the term…
The ANU fails western civilisation
Manning Clark must be mightily vexed from wherever he now exists (as an admirer of Soviet Man, Manning did not,…
Dear Dr Greer, please shut up
I’ve always been a Germaine Greer fan-girl. Her books ‘The Whole Woman’ and ‘The Female Eunuch’ changed my life. Germaine…
The great rock ‘n’ roll show off
Right now in Facebook world, they’re running the Facebook Greatest Album Challenge and it keeps cluttering up my wall. Nominate…
The moral and economic case for tax cuts
It is difficult to find anyone in politics willing to make a case for income tax cuts for anyone considered…
The beast of corporate virtue awakens
Diversity and Inclusion. Tolerance and Respect. Gender Equality. These are the sacred creeds of the new corporate world. They’re also…
Memo various Victorian Liberals: don’t offer a solution when you are the problem
Just as Liberal preselection wars are hotting up in NSW, David Crowe reported in Fairfax Media on Thursday that Victoria Liberal Party…
Turnbull’s online shopping tax drives Amazon USA out of Australia
The Turnbull government’s online shopping tax which applies a 10 per cent GST price spike to imports worth less than…
Definition of a nightmare: #MeToo meets free speech
The #MeToo conversation is swiftly sliding from worrying to worse as the sturdy shove for changes to defamation laws gathers…
Pirate Pete’s “fitzocrisy”
Some of the arguments that Peter FitzSimons makes has me thinking that there might just be a “multiverse” after all.…
A Viking, an Aboriginal and a culture bureaucrat walk into a museum…
Rocks dash together And witches collapse, Men go the way to Hel And the heavens are cleft. Thus ran the…
Is Canberra’s strongest sceptic set for the high jump?
The Australian parliament is replete with closet-sceptics of human-caused catastrophic global warming. But Craig Kelly actually speaks out on this…
The Child Support Agency prompts fresh calls for a Royal Commission
Try as they might to stop the almighty juggernaut of public experience catching up with them, the Child Support Agency…
Australia’s madrasases
It was nearly two decades ago that I offered to talk at the Anglican school my daughters attended on the…
Campion College shows we need more champions for the liberal arts
Launching the iPad 2 in March 2011, the Apple co-founder and former CEO, Steve Jobs, reflected that “It is in…
Can bumbler Birmingham protect western civilisation in our universities?
It seems that the academic left in Australia, the same New Class left that captured the Australian Labor Party and…
How hipsters can patronise coloured folk in the name of anti-racism
It wasn’t a comedy show, it was documentary. That great journal of repute The Mail Online reports: An Oregon activist…
