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Donald Trump’s and Snoop Dogg’s cute cultural affinity
In case you missed it recently rapper Snoop Dogg dropped a music video featuring a caricature of President Trump depicted…
May Day and the noble worker, sure – but what about the bold entrepreneur?
It’s the first of May, and so I can’t help but remember the May Day marches of my Polish childhood;…
Goosey Lucy goes independent
Kenyan-born lawyer, now Family First Senator for South Australia Lucy Gichuhi was confirmed in her Senate seat after Labor decided…
The oddest British poll issue: Gaysexit
A make or break question has emerged in UK election fever over the past week. Is it school funding? No.…
Halal Certification Authority president: white Australian Christians lack compassion
Social media starlet Yassmin Abdel-Magied, she of “Islam is the most feminist religion” and more recently “Lest We Forget [insert…
Cultural relativism sees justice denied
A teenager who migrated from Afghanistan recently plead guilty to a series of sexual assaults in Surfer’s Paradise committed in…
“Buy Ethical” will only harm the world’s poorest
For the past four years, Baptist World Aid Australia have been releasing their annual Behind the Barcode report into the…
Sack Yassmin Abdel-Magied, help the left destroy freedom
Yassmin Abdel-Magied should be roundly criticised for her ANZAC day comments, but demanding she be sacked only feeds the culture…
EXCLUSIVE: An 18c victim speaks
What happened in 2013 to QUT student Calum Thwaites might have happened to your teenage son or mine. Thwaites and…
Milo’s return and the coming battle for Berkeley
Anyone who seriously thought loud-mouthed lefties had driven Milo Yiannopoulos into the woods forever is seriously out of touch with…
Yassmin Abdel-Magied? Sack her
Twenty-six year-old Muslim youth advocate and ABC TV host Yassmin Abdel-Magied has landed herself in some seriously hot water after…
Malcolm Turnbull: governing for headlines and opinion polls
You would think that after imposing what they had promised not to impose, a new tax on superannuation, or the backpacker tax,…
Hijacking Anzac Day
Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending the ANZAC Day dawn service at Martin place. As a first-generation immigrant, it…
Fighting McKenzie, the Anzac spirit and Australian values
Australia has produced some amazing war heroes but none so remarkable, or popular, as Fighting McKenzie from World War I.…
April 25: the stocktaking day for the national consciousness
Anzac Day is stocktaking day for the national consciousness. It’s a special day; a time for Australians not only to…
Marine Le Pen is no saviour
I used to be an avid fan of the TV-series House of Cards. Frank Underwood throwing Zoey Barnes under a…
Christianity, public life and the Thomas Moore option
I’ve always had a soft spot for Britain’s Liberal Democrats. Our tryst began in 2014, when ex-leader Nick Clegg sent…
Ecclesia and empire: a church historian and the Benedict Option
In last week’s Spectator, Orthodox writer and conservative polemicist Rod Dreher invoked Scottish philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre to call on Christians…
Energy policy: Green and red
Do you suffer from high power bills? Never fear, The Greens are here! Like knights in shining green armour they’re…
How China censors your movies
Remember the outrage late last year about Matt Damon playing the lead role in “The Great Wall”? The movie’s trailer…
What are Australian values anyway?
On everyone’s favourite Buzzfeed lite, News.com.au, Malcolm Farr has a go at the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for his stumbling…
What’s so bad about 457 visas?
Malcolm Turnbull claims the Government’s abolition of the 457 visa in favour of more stringent entry requirements for skilled migrants…
Shiny bums, quit yer whinging and on yer bikes!
Once upon a time a Poor Young Single Mother joined the Australian Public Service. She lived, with her child, in…
Democracy is not a la carte
In Australia, the new ACTU boss Sally McManus believes that unions can and should break any law they feel is…
Ba’athism or Islamism?
BOSTON, UNITED STATES — Thought experiment: what if NATO deposed Assad, installed a democracy in Syria… and the public voted…