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“No” campaign dad shows why we need school choice
Last week, Buzzfeed reported that Steve Tourloukis, a Canadian father prominent in advertising by the Coalition for Marriage, “asked for…
When France puts you to shame with IR reform, you’re in trouble
Australia needs politicians like Emmanuel Macron – politicians who are willing to take on powerful vested interests for the sake…
What happened at Fatima 100 years ago?
On Friday, 12 October 1917 many had walked barefooted to the Cova da Iria in Fatima, in central Portugal, to…
Why Labor should stop pretending and ditch same-sex marriage
Labor voters are the most considerate, salt-of-the-earth people you’re ever likely to meet at a polling booth sausage sizzle. How…
Campaigning for cancer
If you were told that the Cancer Council along with the Australian Medical Association were campaigning for more cancer, you…
Casting couch conundrums
The casting couch is not the most comfortable seat in the room. You could say it is downright uncomfortable, especially…
Climate critics can’t keep up with Abbott
Sneers and insults were the response de rigeur from the uninformed to Tony Abbott’s speech a couple of days ago to the Global…
Same-sex marriage and the war on biology
Maybe there are folks out there in plebiscite land who believe that there are no robust intellectual arguments against same-sex marriage or, if there are…
Regulating away freedoms
One of the paradoxes in the world today is that day-to-day life in a communist country like China is much…
Kinsey and Hef
A couple of weeks ago, the human face of the modern sexual revolution, Hugh Hefner died in the Playboy mansion…
Julie Bishop backflips
To repeat the well-used words and heart-stopping sentiment of many parents of teenage children, “Julie, we’re so disappointed in you”. It was surprising to see Bishop…
Labor’s desperate sales pitch
Nothing says desperation more than calling on the Bob Hawke to do your selling and evoking the memory of a…
What’s Greek for ‘chutzpah’?
Cockiness to the point of crazy-brave has been a Hellene characteristic down the ages (the Greeks were Hellenes before they…
What’s left of Western culture? Just about everything
There is something very wrong with Western culture today. At first, it seemed only as if in gradual decline, but…
Corporate subsidies don’t keep the lights on
A wise man once told me watching business people talk about economics is like watching a dog walk on its…
The same-sex marriage revolution: same as them all
David Sergeant chilling piece “What’s changed in Britain since same-sex marriage?” describes the way in Britain the anti-marriage revolutionary agenda…
Reshuffling the ABC is futile
So many promises: each as useless as the last. What is the point of the ABCs overhaul of current affairs…
Teaching at Maechaem
For some weeks now in Thailand I’ve been teaching English to teenagers with a disability, many of them in wheelchairs…
Repeating Turnbull’s blunder
Watching the Conservatives fall apart over leadership gives me uncanny déjà vu after Australian politics. In the last eight years, Australia has…
It’s about more than marriage. Just ask a Pom…
I run Britain’s oldest conservative think tank, the Bow Group, and in 2012 I opposed the then Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed Same-Sex…
Who’s f–king whom at the Department of Environment and Energy?
The Department of Environment and Energy – a strange marriage if ever there was one! It would seem one of…
Waiting for Winston
On the south side of the Ditch we’re living in The Present, a time that American poet Billy Collins identified…
The Greens for sale
EXCLUSIVE You’re a political party who appears to have reached – gratuitous Club of Rome reference – the limits of…
What’s happened to the university?
Many people are likely to have had a lightbulb moment that made them realise our universities are in trouble. Over…
Same-sex marriage and PVO and his army of straw men
Peter Van Onselen is a timely reminder that the ‘academic aristocracy’ is alive well in our land. He recently tried…
