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Are university campus sexual assault statistics inflated?
In recent weeks, our proud Teal Independents have been busy showing their feminist credentials by supporting student activists seeking to…
The motive for the downing of MH17
The International Court that presided over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014…
Labor’s law: undermining constitutional democracy
The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 was recently introduced by Federal Labor in the Australian Parliament. This law proposal…
From hopelessness to heartlessness: the vibe seems so hollow
We are not yet halfway through the run-up to the referendum on the Voice to Parliament, and already many of…
We need a transformation in Australian politics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics website shows that in June 2022 Queensland public sector employees comprised 52,700 Commonwealth, 406,800 State,…
An open letter to Tim Costello
Dear Rev. Costello, You recently published an open letter to church leaders – such as myself – on the matter of…
‘No’ will let them know
Then what? As the October 14 Voice referendum grows closer, speculation is rampant about the socio-political consequences of the result.…
What to do about crime? Papua New Guinea at 48
September 16, 2023, will mark 48 years of independence for Australia’s nearest neighbour – Papua New Guinea (PNG). And, by…
Tyre Extinguishers take on Toorak Tractors
Ten days ago, Greens leader Adam Bandt urged Australians to ‘embrace’ the civil disobedience of climate activists and ‘feel joy’…
Dead-celebrity market worth US$2.25 billion
‘Deleb’ (as in dead celebrity) is a label used in show-business to describe a deceased star, celebrity, or artist whose…
Rising tyranny: the public-private partnership
The slogan cuius regio, eius religio (whose the reign/realm, his the religion) was adopted in Europe in the mid-16th Century to end…
The Voice is the latest saviour cult
Is Western Civilisation’s middle-class being pranked? The people we thought we knew – peers, colleagues, relatives, and friends – are…
Harmonies and strains in campaign songs
In the long history of pop songs being co-opted or leveraged for social cause campaigns, almost none seem an immediately…
The UN Declaration of Human Rights asks us to reject the Voice
Not since the days of the prophets has there been a greater clarion call for human civilisation than that espoused…
Indigenous rights and voice silenced
As Australia considers the voice of its Indigenous peoples, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, in the upcoming referendum, concerning constitutional…
Everybody needs good Neighbours
Neighbours. Everybody needs good neighbours. The thing about good neighbours is that they actually do develop into good friends over…
Pope Francis should stop cosying up to authoritarian regimes
Pope Francis is on his way back from Mongolia this week. On a visit to that country, which has scarcely…
Victoria’s duck hunting ban is a sign of things to come with the Voice
The recent state parliamentary report into recreational native bird hunting gives Victorians a taste of the kind of division the…
Concussions are killing players and the game
The rulers of footy codes have, for years, adopted a head-in-the-sand approach to the management of concussions, but the tsunami…
WorkSafe: socialism by stealth
The Victorian State government is forcing employers to pay for their mental health initiatives, and it is crippling businesses. Pending…
Tony Abbott’s record of achievement
Ten years since we elected the Anglosphere’s best recent Tory PM
End the Net Zero nightmare
Matthew Warren knows as much about the energy industry as anyone and his book Blackout (2019) is a very good overview of…
Jolly (expensive) junketeers!
When you wake to the news that federal parliamentarians will be travelling to Washington DC to plead for the release…
Are we all pretending everything is ‘fine’?
You know that old trope about how the husband finally retires and then the wife finds him under her feet…
The road to Calvary
A presentation by the estimable Fr Tony Percy, until recently Vicar-General of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn, on the Australian…