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Universities need charters of intellectual freedom
The latest politically correct madness at the University of Sydney — gender, race, sexuality, and class background quotas at the nation’s…
What crisis of conservatism?
Last month I attended The Australian’s ‘Big Voices on Big Issues’ panel discussion in Melbourne. Senior columnists Janet Albrechtson and…
Stand by for the Cultural Revolution 2.0
To the left, a slippery slope is not a logical device, it’s their business model. Just in from (where else?)…
To the promised land
It’s fifty years since Martin Luther King Jnr stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis and received…
Their ABC’s privilege propaganda pratfalls
Last week, the ABC has decided to close down its Facebook page for its children channel ABC Me, after it…
Do Trump’s gut feelings beat the tenets of the left?
One has to admire Donald Trump’s gall. Against the best economic advice that the experts could give, he went and…
Do ice cream sales increase shark attacks?
Labor MP Andrew Leigh’s study on data around effective company tax rates and employment shows incomplete analysis that mistakes correlation for…
Diversity is not a strength
Possibly the greatest myth propagated by modern Western culture is that diversity is an essential ingredient for a successfully-integrated, progressive…
Why borders exist – and matter
No matter how much I try I can’t get my head around the common leftist (and libertarian) delusion that national…
Their ABC’s anti-religious hypocrisy
It’s a bit rich for Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson, having spent the previous twelve months conducting a special ‘investigation’…
Is it Monash or Marxist University?
Monash University, the first Australian university to introduce trigger warnings, appropriately begins their “#CHANGEIT” advertising campaign by declaring “SOME OF…
Want to fix big government? Ban public sector workers from voting
The American revolutionaries claimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny”. In other words, taxing people, while denying them the vote,…
What colour is your Jesus?
It’s that time of the year again (Christmas or Easter) for someone out there to come out and say something…
The cricket crybabies have won
Now that the crybabies have won what are we to do? Steve Smith cried on national television and so did…
Plain packaging: fraud, farce and failure
The latest investigation by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission reveals that plain packaging laws, introduced in late 2012 and designed to make…
Official: it’s racist to care about black kids being abused
What identity politics hath wrought: Sunrise is under investigation by the broadcasting watchdog over a segment on Aboriginal families that was…
Union bashing is easy but we want prosperity
Whenever a problem arises a moment of reflection — or, in reality, a time to criticise and complain — is…
“Life is short but smokers’ lives are shorter. Legalise vaping now.”
The much-anticipated House of Representatives committee report on e-cigarettes and personal vaporisers – in other words, vaping – was tabled…
Populate or perish: destroying the village to save it from perishing?
Greg Sheridan’s article “Great leaders knew immigration truth: populate or perish” from Saturday’s Weekend Australian assails “the decisive turn by…
Childcare costs? Thank unions and government
In case you didn’t notice, Tuesday was Keep Your Children Home Day – in other words, a nationwide childcare workers’…
Is Australia funding terrorism?
In the very last issue of The Spectator Australia David Adler wrote what could well turn out to be a…
Why modern-day feminism is inherently sexist
Despite the protest from Magda Szubanski that the golden statuette awarded at the Oscars needs to be more “non-binary”, I…
Anzac Day: the latest victim of green madness
Recently, RSL branches in Victoria announced a ban on old-school military vehicles at the state’s ANZAC day parade, supposedly due…
Diversity. Be in it.
Here is a modest proposal: practice what you preach. Take multiculturalism. Some of the biggest fans of ethnic and cultural…
Malgorithms
There is no disappointment so deep, no betrayal so wounding, as that felt by those who put their faith in…