Flat White
The Age of Audits
Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…
Time to punish the Big End of town?
Australia’s Big End of Town gambled heavily in the Voice Cup. They lost. Only the Nanny ‘State’ (Canberra) voted ‘Yes’,…
Our enemy, the government
The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny…
Education vs Wisdom: referendum voting patterns come under fire
Waleed Aly was technically correct, but perhaps discourteous, in the way he expressed the socio-economic difference seen within voting patterns…
False rape allegations aren’t so rare
Remember how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing…
Letter to the editor
Over the last two weeks, I am shocked and disappointed to see the level of support given to pro-Palestinian demonstrations…
Can my God go to court too?
Australia’s Voice Referendum resulted in the beautiful affirmation that our nation does not see colour or heritage among its peoples.…
A true cultural turning point
In the week before the Voice referendum, the esteemed commentator for the Australian newspaper Paul Kelly argued if the ‘No’…
The rot of bureaucracy: it’s time to ‘go local’ on education
‘It takes a department to raise a child…’ Who has ever said that? Hopefully nobody, but it’s clear that this…
Why I love The Exorcist
Thousands of people queued up outside the theatre to witness something unique. As the line stretched around corners, the chilly…
Now the recriminations begin
Despite the promised week of silent mourning for the defeat of the Voice to Parliament, the recriminations and blame-to-be-laid are…
A bomb wrapped as a gift: no thanks
It would have detonated multiple times over a few years, as the Voice package, if accepted by Australians, shed its…
Yet another well-intentioned green folly
In the small town of Kalkar in Northern Germany, there is an amusement park with an unusual ‘Alpine Experience’ climbing…
Ten reasons to rejoice at the Voice referendum result
The result of the weekend’s referendum was known within an hour or so of polls closing. Australians emphatically voted against…
The Voice referendum was a tragedy
There is nothing to celebrate about the weekend’s referendum result. My party campaigned in the March election on a colour-blind…
How secular humanism at our universities fuels antisemitism
When students successfully graduate high school and embark on their tertiary studies, it is a time of pride in what…
New Zealand’s dance with division is not over yet
New Zealand’s October 14 election coincided with the Voice referendum where Australians decisively said ‘No’ to enshrining divisive race-based politics…
Five key failures that sank the Voice
The Voice referendum has failed. Badly. It did not secure a majority overall or in any state even though it…
Dan Andrews’ mini me: Victoria’s new Premier is worse than the last one
It’s been less than a month since Premier Daniel Andrews abruptly ended his premiership and handed over the reins to…
The Voice of the Quiet Australians
The so-called ‘progressive left’s’ presumption of moral superiority often leads it to assertively present the views of activists as ‘mainstream’…
Cultural and spiritual sectarianism
The second time I got a punch on the jaw was working on an early morning milk delivery round before…
Dreamtime turns to nightmare for ‘Yes’
The emphatic result of the 2023 Voice Referendum is a triumph for democracy in Australia. It showcases for all the…
Why we said ‘no bloody way’
After 18 long months of dominating the airwaves, TV screens, and opinion columns, Australians have finally been able to have…
Enslaved by the welfare state: the tragedy of Australian ‘kindness’
It is not unusual for laws and policies, although well-intentioned, to have the opposite effect as that allegedly contemplated. Arguably,…
A Pyrrhic victory: the unfinished business of closing the ‘Gap’
The Voice has been defeated, but the victory of the ‘No’ case could be described as a ‘Pyrrhic’ victory because…
