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Hate speech or free speech? Balancing religious sensitivities with liberty
The New Zealand government’s most recent failed attempt to enact hate speech laws shows just how difficult it is to…
Is it time to defund public education?
For quite some time, I have been concerned about the attack upon private schools, and in particular, those who are…
The anti-anti-racism movement?
It is something of a rare delight to write positively about race relations in recent years. As such, these stories…
Caught between three scams: ‘a delicate environmental conundrum’
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Mike Foley tells us that 20 per cent of development applications relating to proposals ‘threatening koala habitat’…
Racist Labor?
Foreign Minister Penny Wong recently told an audience at King’s College in London that we should hear uncomfortable stories rather…
The lost generation: a global assault on children and young people
Last week, Australia’s children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, spoke passionately about the myriad impacts children and young people had endured due…
Can teaching be politically neutral?
Are people involved in a spiritual enterprise when they think, and therefore, when they teach? This might seem a far-fetched…
But, is it safe?
Older readers may remember a TV show on the ABC in the 1970s called The Inventors. It was a bit…
Democracy or minocracy?
If democracy is defined by majority rule, Australia is not a democracy; it’s a minocracy. The current Labor government attracted…
Oh dear! Vic Libs disenfranchise their own members
The Victorian division of the Liberal Party has done it again. Instead of going into the April 1, Aston by-election…
A Church without a purpose will be no Church at all
The Church of England, it seems, is hellbent on destroying itself from the inside out. Of the many objectionable suggestions…
Who will bat for the battler?
‘It’s not a house… it’s a home…’ Darryl Kerrigan, The Castle. It was the mid-1990s, economically, the hard times induced by…
Backsliding on Democracy: New Zealand knows it well
Australia beware, rent-seeking is a term you may have to look up if your life path has yet to cross…
Alan Jones: what is the real Perrottet government about?
On many occasions, I have sought to alert voters in New South Wales to the extraordinary and reckless economic management…
One-legged seagull: the cult of victimhood
There is a hardwood pier stretching out into the protected harbour where I live, styled to resemble a vintage port.…
Needle spiking haunts the land
I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by…
Enough! No more big government
It should come as no surprise that the globalists have enjoyed another Summit to discuss their agenda for world domination.…
Holding parents responsible for youth crime
Violent youth crime in this nation seems to be on the increase. Recent television footage of children running amok in…
A race-based tax is utterly unjust
Last month, former Victorian Greens (now Independent) Senator Lidia Thorpe, ‘reiterated the call for Australian property owners to pay a weekly…
Review of anti-discrimination laws puts religious educational institutions under threat
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recently released its consultation paper on the subject of Religious Education Institutions and…
Bourla-von der Leyen text message scandal: EU can’t function without corruption
Spectator Australia readers will recall the admission by Pfizer executive Janine Small that there was never any testing done to…
Blather, babble, blah – the death throes of ABC TV news
That ABC TV news is dying is not in dispute. The remaining question is whether to switch off life-support or…
Queensland’s youth crime crisis: cutting through Palaszczuk’s proposals
Crime doesn’t pay – unless you’re a recidivist youth offender living in Queensland. The fatal Boxing Day stabbing of Emma Lovell,…
Trucking billionaires
Federal Labor is set to bolster the businesses of trucking billionaires and corporations. Unsurprisingly, the billionaires are more than happy…
The poison of ersatz victimhood
In an interview about his excellent book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the eminent scholar Thomas Sowell underlined several peoples that…
