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Gladys versus God

Churches cannot — and must not — comply with health orders that require them to exclude unvaccinated people from worship…

14 Sep 2021

REVEALED: How woke bureaucrats used the corona crisis to cancel women

While two-thirds of this country’s population is currently locked up at home and deprived of its fundamental freedoms, unelected bureaucrats…

14 Sep 2021

It’s not only history. The left has captured literature too

Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of…

14 Sep 2021

‘We managed to toilet train cows’

“We managed to toilet train cows (and they learned faster than a toddler). It could help combat climate change,” a…

Covid: the New World Order

Something dangerous has happened to Australia.  We have allowed the interests of ‘collective health’ to erase individual human rights.  It…

14 Sep 2021

Dead reef? What dead reef?

Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…

13 Sep 2021

Jacinda Ardern – an agenda-driven autocrat?

It’s hard to keep up with our adroit Prime Minister who apparently doesn’t like answering questions, such as the one about where does…

13 Sep 2021

Lorraine Finlay, conservative governments and appointments

I want to point out a few short blunt truths about conservative governments and appointments to important posts such as…

13 Sep 2021

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Joe Biden cheapened 9/11

With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 having come and gone, many have turned to reflection. Some meditate on the solidarity…

14 Sep 2021

Life in LA is murder

It was a punch in the face, followed by a thick spray of blood. Then another punch, another victim. More…

14 Sep 2021

Return to Kabul

The Taliban Cultural Commission sounds a contradiction in terms but for all foreign journalists it’s the first stop in the…

14 Sep 2021

Hunter Biden, artist of modern life

Why do we keep hearing about Hunter Biden? Why is this disgraced political son and aspiring amateur pornographer now making…

14 Sep 2021

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Jacinda Ardern – an agenda-driven autocrat?

It’s hard to keep up with our adroit Prime Minister who apparently doesn’t like answering questions, such as the one about where does…

13 Sep 2021

More than one way to ruin a country

The shock of the brutal religious fanaticism of the Taliban again abroad in Afghanistan, partly at least to the shame…

11 Sep 2021

Kiwis want elimination, and nothing but elimination

Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta…

3 Sep 2021

The bribing of the New Zealand media?

“Trustworthy, insightful, important” — one thing we can say for our mainstream media is that they must think we are…

2 Sep 2021

Code red indeed

Whatever lessons are learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, one stands out. It is that our trust in those we contract…

11 Sep 2021

Puritanical rule in lockdown Australia

Australians are currently being subjected to hitherto unprecedented control over, and incursions into, our lives by the state. We have…

11 Sep 2021

Carry on down the coal mine

The inevitable drive towards a clean, green, emissions-free future means that the Australian coal industry must be left by the…

11 Sep 2021

Watching the empty trains roll by

Picture the scene. I am hanging out in a very average park in an outer suburb of Melbourne. I’m looking…

11 Sep 2021

Is Trudeau toast?

Canada’s national election will be held in just over a week, on 20 September. Despite being only two years into…

11 Sep 2021

The return of the racism versus rape debate

The gang rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Austria recently has provoked outrage throughout the nation. Four Afghan…

11 Sep 2021

Locked out

It was a Father’s Day to forget for many Australians. More than half are locked in their home, the rest…

11 Sep 2021

More than one way to ruin a country

The shock of the brutal religious fanaticism of the Taliban again abroad in Afghanistan, partly at least to the shame…

11 Sep 2021

Thomas Mann

And so Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge is Melbourne’s musical-in- waiting. The show that can only go on when we’re 80…

11 Sep 2021

Charlie Watts

The endless news is of shows locked down as every form of life is locked down in a nation struggling…

4 Sep 2021

Nicole Kidman

And, as even Canberra locks down, so do all the shows. The Melbourne Theatre Company shuts down its production of…

28 Aug 2021

Ernest Hemingway

Entertainment in a public place shrivels as the lockdowns continue. The Australian Ballet has cancelled its Melbourne season, Anna Karenina…

21 Aug 2021

Aussie Life

Do fish have feelings? And if they do, does anybody care? RSPCA Australia’s willingness to lease their logo to salmon…

11 Sep 2021

Aussie Language

The New York Times has chosen a word to describe what happens to people under Covid restrictions: ‘languishing’. Under lockdown…

11 Sep 2021

The economic case for flexible working

Is flexible working better or worse for productivity? What is the correct blend of remote and office work? Billions of…

11 Sep 2021

A tale of refugees from ‘Brexit Britain’

In the New Year I was introduced to a couple who had fled Britain impulsively on New Year’s Eve with…

11 Sep 2021

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was lucky to escape retribution in 1945

They rather like bad boys, the French. Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) is one, in a tradition that stretches from François Villon…

11 Sep 2021

James Bond and the Beatles herald a new Britain

The word ‘magisterial’ consistently attaches itself to the work of David Kynaston. His eye-wateringly exhaustive four-volume history of the Old…

11 Sep 2021

All great fun: Mary Churchill dances through the war

The famous photographic portrait by Karsh of Winston Churchill as wartime prime minster personifies heroic defiance and grim determination. His…

11 Sep 2021

Chips Channon’s judgment was abysmal, but the diaries are a great work of literature

It is often said that the best political diaries are written by those who dwell in the foothills of power.…

11 Sep 2021

Irish quartet: Beautiful World, Where Are You?, by Sally Rooney, reviewed

The millennial generation of Irish novelists lays great store by loving relationships. One of the encomia on the cover of…

11 Sep 2021

Ahmad Shah Massoud was Afghanistan’s best hope

Ahmed Shah Massoud was described as ‘the Afghan who won the Cold War’. While famous in France (he was educated…

11 Sep 2021

America sees red: how fury prompted the slide into Trumpism

After leaving college more than two decades ago, Evan Osnos landed a job on the Exponent Telegram, one of two…

11 Sep 2021

Lost to addiction: Loved and Missed, by Susie Boyt, reviewed

Ruth, the narrator of Susie Boyt’s seventh novel, is both the child of a single mother and a single mother…

11 Sep 2021