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Cardinal George Pell: Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figure
There’s no doubt Cardinal George Pell is one of Australia’s most influential and controversial Catholic figures. While some will see…
Ideas, my dear girl, ideas
Excuse me for so poorly paraphrasing Harold Macmillan, but fair dinkum. It feels like our political overlords are speaking in…
Cracks appear in employer vaccine mandates
As we come back to work in 2023, many Australian companies are still mandating that their staff be ‘fully vaccinated’…
The truth about ‘anti-democratic’ protests in Brazil
Thousands of Brazilians have occupied this Sunday their country’s Congress to protest against the election and inauguration of far-left presidential…
Dark money
Recent years have seen a strengthening dominance of politics over individual and commercial decision-making. This is readily evident in the…
Valley of the Whales: science, power, and politics
Wādī al-Ḥītān, also known as ‘The Valley of the Whales’, is an extraordinary paleontological site sitting 150 km south-west of…
Climate lockdowns: a never-ending story of misery and control
Here is a harsh truth we must be cognisant of: the same power-hungry control freaks who wanted to lock down…
The difference between ‘her’ and ‘I’
She runs into the sea, hair blowing in the wind. She’s just finished her first year of university and working…
Reinstate one, reinstate all
An unvaccinated Northern Territory firefighter has recently returned to work after being sacked in late 2021 because of the NT…
A grassroots revival of conservative politics
John Howard and Peter Costello are right to remind the federal government that we are ‘robbing the future to pay…
An angry voice?
Marcia Langton appears to be frustrated that there is opposition to enshrining the Voice in our Constitution. Writing in The Saturday…
Woke witch hunt in psychology? In defence of scientific integrity and due process
Woke intolerance has penetrated peak scientific associations in psychology. There is a rapidly developing scandal around the recent dismissal of…
Self-ID laws are incompatible with efforts to end violence against women
In October 2022, the federal, state, territory governments released the National Plan to End Violence Against Women and Children 2022-32.…
Truth is knowledge held back by power – where did the burden of proof go?
‘Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely – may be pursued too keenly – may cost too…
Religious intolerance is alive and well
As the festive season goodwill fades, we can but hope that 2023 will be a better year for Christianity after…
Sunday first?
The start of a new year and a new calendar brings to mind the confusion foisted upon us by different…
The Culture Wars need a touch of sincerity
When it comes to the Culture Wars in 2023, I have two simple resolutions: Assume they are sincere. Be sincere.…
Henry Cavill rightly abandoned Woke Witcher
When I think about the state of modern entertainment, I often find myself referring to an old episode of Family…
City of Stonnington promises religious freedom ‘for now’
Victorian activists are insisting that Christians should be banned from renting public spaces for worship services because their views on…
The myth of female innocence
When I was 15 years old, I inadvertently angered a group of mean girls who hung out at the roller…
Pandemic survivors and the silent victims of excess mortality
Many in the media, politics, and the health industry have expressed the view that Australia has fared well since the…
Are we headed toward the death of reason?
In one important way, the death of Pope Benedict last week was the death of reason in an increasingly secular…
My time with Cardinal Ratzinger
I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the mid-nineties. He was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and midway through his…
Covid 2023: a crisis of trust
The past couple of months have seen some quite startling Covid studies published in reputable medical journals that should be…
Pope Benedict XVI: the first victim of cancel culture
In January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI was invited by one of Italy’s (if not the world’s) leading universities, La Sapienza…
