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Pope Benedict XVI: the first victim of cancel culture

5 January 2023 4:00 am

In January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI was invited by one of Italy’s (if not the world’s) leading universities, La Sapienza…

Twitter’s free speech threatens radical trans activism

4 January 2023 10:00 am

I sat down to write this article about how Elon was being held captive in some areas in his expressed…

The power of many

4 January 2023 6:00 am

It was 2014 when I first heard from Andrew, a young Queensland dad, who was being denied contact with his…

That’s not cricket! The Don knew his economics

4 January 2023 4:00 am

It is increasingly common for professional sportsmen and women to express political opinions, particularly in the age of Twitter. Most…

Adams aims wrong’un at the Don and Kamahl

3 January 2023 8:00 am

The recent disclosure that Sir Donald George Bradman warmly welcomed Labor’s defeat in the 1975 federal election must have come…

Monarchist League issues ultimatum on the Voice

3 January 2023 6:00 am

The federal government under Anthony Albanese, regardless of what it admits and what the media reports, is moving fast to…

In search of common sense

2 January 2023 10:00 am

I am sure that, like me, you have not only used the term ‘common sense’ yourselves, but have heard many…

Is Queensland’s Minister for Women selling out women and girls?

2 January 2023 8:00 am

Under Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Women, and the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman’s new bill, a…

Will history judge Benedict XVI more kindly than his contemporaries?

2 January 2023 4:00 am

This weekend I have been touring TV studios trying to set the late Pope Benedict’s life and work in perspective.…

Australia’s New Year resolutions

1 January 2023 4:32 pm

As I consider the future and look forward to the year 2023, I have resolved to make the following solemn…

Pope Benedict XVI: towering intellect and deep piety

1 January 2023 10:40 am

Sydney’s Cardinal Anthony Fisher is right to praise the late Pope Benedict XVI as ‘a man of towering intellect and…

Building babies in a brave new world

1 January 2023 8:00 am

The term ‘dystopian’ gets thrown around a lot these days, but it’s fair to say that the idea of babies…

Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK

1 January 2023 4:00 am

I admire Tucker Carlson, Robert Kennedy Jr, and Miranda Devine, but they’ve all done a disservice recently in fuelling foolish…

You don’t decide your pronouns – we do

31 December 2022 10:00 am

How often do you get emails from someone who signs off with their pronouns? How often are you confronted in…

The crimes of eco-fascism

31 December 2022 7:00 am

Conservatives never should have surrendered the ground of environmental conservation to the radicalised, collectivised, totalitarian Left. Since becoming custodians of…

No time for panic

31 December 2022 6:00 am

Cristina Talacko is the CEO of Coalition for Conservation, an environmental charity working with centre-right politicians on energy and climate…

Farewell 2022: the year of vindication

31 December 2022 4:00 am

2022 has been a big year for conspiracy theorists – mainly because most of what they said is in the…

Del Noce, modernity, and the death of the Enlightenment

30 December 2022 11:33 am

In Looking back on the Spanish Civil War (1943) George Orwell writes, such is the power of totalitarian thought control…

Happy Energophobia!

30 December 2022 4:00 am

It is the New Year season, so I thought we should celebrate around something that will be common to all…

Batteries not included

29 December 2022 5:11 pm

Renewable energy battery farms threaten to cripple the economy with cyclic costs

Pull it together, Australia!

29 December 2022 10:00 am

Australia is a great nation and a country to be proud of. We have faced challenging times, year after year,…

The slippery slope to socialism

29 December 2022 7:00 am

I have the heater on in mid-summer Australia, so it makes sense that ‘they’ changed ‘global warming’ to ‘climate change’…

A ‘borderless world’? Not for carbon!

28 December 2022 11:15 am

The European Union has long been known as a collection of bad ideas. On brand, it has decided to become…

Australia’s democratic backslide

28 December 2022 10:00 am

Democracy is the backbone of the Australian way of life. By global standards, Australia’s electoral and democratic institutions are at…

Australia and a Pacific ‘shape up’ in 2023 

28 December 2022 4:00 am

This year, the Pacific Islands clearly featured much more vividly in Australian politics. Near-state collapse in the Solomon Islands, matched…