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Rowan Dean: ‘What is Woke?’
I’ve always fancied myself as one of those Christmas Cracker riddle writers – what a great job that would be……
Anthony Albanese’s Concorde Fallacy
Last Saturday I watched as a sandy-haired young supporter of the ‘Yes’ case earnestly endeavoured to give his leaflets away…
Tragedy in Manipur: India’s Christians are suffering under ‘anti-conversion laws’
Carnage in Manipur showcases the tragedy unfolding around India’s anti-Christian ‘conversion laws’. Two Christian women from the Kuki tribe, allegedly…
Vote ‘no’ to racism
‘[We hope for] a future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with…
Freedom is never free
Recently, Fulgence Kayishema was charged in South Africa for allegedly committing suspected war crimes in Rwanda in 1994. Three decades…
150 years since Gosse’s climb
July 20 marked 150 years since the first documented account of climbing Australia’s famous Ayers Rock. While climbing ‘The Rock’…
Labor’s destruction of the Victorian timber industry threatens forests
The accelerated destruction of the native timber industry in my home state of Victoria is a disgrace. This industry has…
Legalising Cannabis: evidence based or evidence bias?
‘An unexciting truth can easily be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.’ – Aldous Huxley Some of the most troubling experiences…
Albanese’s Voice tears the heart from Australian politics
It was W.B. Yeats, after the first world war, who wrote his poem that contained the phrase, ‘The centre cannot…
The big Teal regret over wind farms: flattened rainforests and ruined coastlines
It was a joke when we said, ‘Why not put wind turbines on Bondi Beach and see how the Teals…
Private health is painfully slow
It started with an odd sensation in my leg as I ate chicken and leek pie in a Sydney CBD…
The bold, the brave, and the deported
The huge international military exercise Operation Talisman Sabre is underway in Australian waters (unfortunately with a tragic accident occurring yesterday)…
Braveheart re-emerges in Fiji
Experienced taxi drivers are a good sounding board regarding the state of a nation. After some years of assorted opinions…
The horrors of Native Title: you will own nothing, and you will be happy
We have all heard the warning: ‘You will own nothing and be happy.’ Australia Native Title and Aboriginal Freehold Land…
Has the education revolution failed Australia’s students?
World-renowned academic, Pierre Ryckmans, opined: ‘A university is a place where scholars seek the truth, pursue and transmit knowledge for…
The Liberals’ capitulation on heroin puts cities on the road to Gotham
The disappointing thing about the debate over heroin injecting rooms in Melbourne is that there is no debate about whether…
Will the Voice lead to a treaty?
As support for The Voice plummets around the nation, Anthony Albanese is becoming so desperate. Speaking to 2GB’s Ben Fordham,…
Batteries
Depending on your outlook, the Net Zero movement could result in anything from the seven horses of the apocalypse riding…
A liberal education? Universities must treat students as thinkers, not dollar signs
As technology advances into the realms of science fiction, with AI tools like ChatGPT being harnessed in every corner of…
Chris Bowen on the brink: energy cost blowouts and improbable Net Zero targets
Chris Bowen is a man on the brink. He is under extreme pressure to meet improbable targets for renewable expansion…
The ooga booga school of anthropology
Aboriginal anthropologist and activist Dr Marcia Langton is probably the most influential figure in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum…
The fatal flaw in the ‘Yes’ case
The pamphlets to be sent to all households in Australia setting out the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ cases for the referendum…
Ruining the world to ‘save the planet’
The late morning sun danced off the Mediterranean as I took a chair facing Al Gore on the rooftop terrace…
The ABC rots from the head
They say a fish rots from the head. The writer is not sure if it’s true about fish, but it…
Oh Danny boy, what have you done now?
When he was first elected in 2014, more than a few members of the Victorian Coalition must have asked themselves…
